Snatchers(2019)
2019 · Stephen Cedars & Benji Kleiman · 97 min
After status-obsessed teen Sara has sex for the first time, she wakes up the next day nine months pregnant-with an alien.
Science Fiction · Horror · Comedy
6.5171 votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How scary is Snatchers?
You'll feel more amused than scared watching this one, since it plays like a goofy teen comedy that happens to have an alien creature stuffed into it. The pace moves fast, bouncing between silly dialogue, gross-out gags, and short bursts of creature chaos rather than building any real dread. Any gore or slime is played for laughs, not horror, and the alien threat never gets under your skin the way a real scare would. It's a light, breezy watch for anyone who wants jokes and a weird premise more than actual fright.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Snatchers rates psychological 1/5, visceral 3/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 30 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 10 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A goofy, low-stakes start that steadily ramps up into a chaotic, action-packed back half before settling for a lighter finish.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2.
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