Lake Placid vs Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

Lake Placid has the higher audience score (5.9/10 against 4.8/10 for Sharknado 5: Global Swarming). Lake Placid is the shorter watch at 1h 22m compared with 1h 30m. Lake Placid is the older of the two (1999 against 2017). Both are action, comedy, horror movies, so they suit a similar mood.

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Lake PlacidSharknado 5: Global Swarming
Audience score★ 5.9/10★ 4.8/10
Year19992017
Length1h 22m1h 30m
GenresAction, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, ThrillerAction, Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Country––
DirectorSteve MinerAnthony C. Ferrante
Main castBill Pullman, Mariska Hargitay, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, David James LewisRussell Hodgkinson, Cody Linley, Tara Reid, Dolph Lundgren, Gilbert Gottfried

Synopsis

Lake Placid

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!

Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

Fin and his wife April travel around the world to save their young son who's trapped inside a sharknado.

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