Movies Like The Food of the Gods (1976)

The Food of the Gods is a 1976 horror, science fiction film from Bert I. Gordon with a MovieMagicScore of 4.9/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Deadly Eyes and Boa vs. Python.

Horror Science Fiction

Deadly Eyes

1982

Corn grain contaminated with steroids produces large rats the size of small dogs who begin feeding on the residents of Toronto. Paul, a college basketball coach, teams up with Kelly, a local health inspector, to uncover the source of the mysterious rat attacks and they eventually try to prevent the opening of a new subway line as well as find the mutant rats nest quickly, or there will be a huge massacre of the entire city!

5.7

MagicScore

Boa vs. Python

2004

After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It's two great snakes that snake great together!

4.5

MagicScore

Willard

1971

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.

6.1

MagicScore

Wilderness

2006

Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival.

6.0

MagicScore

Mountain Men

2014

Two estranged brothers, Toph and Cooper, must journey to a remote family cabin in the mountains to evict a squatter. Buried resentment and bruised egos soon derail the plan and when the smoke clears they've destroyed their car and burned down the cabin, leaving them stranded in the cold Rocky Mountain winter. With their very survival at stake, they must learn to work together as brothers to get back to civilization.

5.5

MagicScore

The Phantom of the Opera

1998

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld.

4.6

MagicScore

Frogs

1972

Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason Crockett hates nature, poisoning anything that crawls on his property. On the night of his birthday the frogs and other members of nature begin to pay Crockett back.

4.7

MagicScore

The Monkey

2025

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

6.0

MagicScore

Ben

1972

A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.

6.0

MagicScore

#10

The Sweet Hereafter

1997

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.

6.9

MagicScore

#11

Battle Royale

2000

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

7.3

MagicScore

#12

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2014

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Beast

2018

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.

6.6

MagicScore

#14

What to Expect When You're Expecting

2012

Challenges of impending parenthood turn the lives of five couples upside down. Two celebrities are unprepared for the surprise demands of pregnancy; hormones wreak havoc on a baby-crazy author, while her husband tries not to be outdone by his father, who's expecting twins with his young trophy wife; a photographer's husband isn't sure about his wife's adoption plans; a one-time hook-up results in a surprise pregnancy for rival food-truck owners.

6.0

MagicScore

#15

Hellions

2015

A teen faces a night of terror when three malevolent trick-or-treaters come knocking at her door.

3.9

MagicScore

#16

1922

2017

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

5.9

MagicScore

#17

Of Unknown Origin

1983

A man who recently completed rebuilding a townhouse becomes obsessed with a rat infestation until it becomes an interspecies duel.

5.8

MagicScore

#18

Land

2021

Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings her back from the brink of death, she must find a way to live again.

6.7

MagicScore

#19

Rampage

2018

Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

6.5

MagicScore

#20

Island Claws

1980

A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.

4.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Food of the Gods?

The top films similar to The Food of the Gods by MovieMagicScore are Deadly Eyes (5.7), Boa vs. Python (4.5), Willard (6.1). Each shares horror/science fiction themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Food of the Gods worth watching?

The Food of the Gods holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.9/10 from 119 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Food of the Gods?

The Food of the Gods (1976) is a horror, science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon, starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Food of the Gods?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more horror recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Food of the Gods

This ranked list pairs The Food of the Gods (1976), a horror and science fiction film from Bert I. Gordon, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Marjoe Gortner take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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