Movies like Children of the Living Dead

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Children of the Living Dead (2001)
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Children of the Living Dead (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. Firstly, he learns that his new property is located on the site of a graveyard, which all the townsfolk regard as an evil place that must never be visited. He then discovers that years earlier the town had suffered an infestation of the living dead ...zombies who prey on human flesh. One zombie, the infamous Abbot Hayes, escaped destruction. As the construction team begin degging, they unleash the thing the townsfolk fear the most, the wrath of Abbot Hayes and the awakening of ... The Children of the Living Dead.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, suspense, dark, disturbing
Plot: living dead, zombie, plague, small town, gory, teenage life, danger, social relations, violence, night of the living dead, monster, cemetery, zombie attack, bad kids, infection, supernatural, escapades, small town life, zombie apocalypse, morgue, tomb, farm, death of protagonist, sheriff, car accident ...
Time: contemporary
Place: pennsylvania

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Most similar movies to Children of the Living Dead

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about deadly, gory, danger, zombie, supernatural, survival and virus mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Children of the Living Dead: Zombie Night (2013), Dead Men Walking (2005), Automaton Transfusion (2006), State of Emergency (2011), Night Shadows (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" ...
Style: scary, suspense, grindhouse, black and white, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, cemetery, zombie apocalypse, basement, living dead, survival, monster, supernatural, gory, cannibalism, zombie attack, post apocalypse ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1967
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, washington d.c.
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 3.5
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Zombie Night (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: zombie, mausoleum, survival, danger, moral dilemma, night, cemetery, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, epidemic, gory, characters killed one by one ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, dark, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: living dead, survival, supernatural, danger, isolation, gory, zombie, night of the living dead, infected, undead, zombie attack, virus ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Dead Men Walking (2005)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A viral outbreak turns those who are infected into the walking dead. Soon, the undead are contained, being kept in a maximum security prison. However, those who contained the undead are also trapped in this zombie-infested prison. Their only hope is ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot: prison, zombie, plague, supernatural, chaos, gory, violence, save the day, experiment gone awry, undead, infected, virus ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During a Day of the Dead celebration, the dead come to life to prey upon the living. In the remote Mexican village of Santa Bonita, a nightmare lay buried for over a century. But when a group of hard-partying students from the OC are stranded in ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, dark, suspense ...
Plot: human sacrifice, zombie, survival, danger, supernatural, gory, massacre, day of the dead, living dead, undead, ghost, nudity ...
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Legion of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When the mummified remains of an evil Egyptian queen are brought back to life, she resurrects an army of living dead to help fulfill the prophecy that promises her all the powers of the Underworld.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, scary, offbeat
Plot: mummy, zombie, supernatural, undead, danger, escapades, rivalry, gory, tomb, death, female protagonist, police ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Automaton Transfusion (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Three teens find themselves in a town over run with zombies. Deciding to fight back, they go on a punch you in the throat, action packed, non stop ride through the city, woods, and schools.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, supernatural, survival horror, deadly creature, danger, youth, plague, isolation, teenage life, gory, chaos, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
State of Emergency (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie, plague, chaos, quarantine, isolation, danger, small town, infection, virus, infected, monster, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Night Shadows (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When two brothers, Josh and Mike, go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. When Mike himself goes missing, Josh teams up with the local sheriff and an attractive school teacher to find him ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, mutant, small town, zombie, survival, chaos, danger, experiment gone awry, infection, plague, undead, virus ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 3.6
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Zombie Farm (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hell has been unleashed on the small town of Muerto Verde when inbred cannibal farmers are turned into zombies after Taliban warriors poison the local water supply. The only hope for humanity are two FBI agents and four party-crazed college students.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: zombie, danger, supernatural, family problems, woman in danger, strong violent content, domestic disturbance, curses spells and rituals, gory, small town, zombie attack, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.0
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Insanitarium (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths
Style: disturbing, rough, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, mental institution, survival, psychopath, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, doctors and patients, confined, rescue, power relations, isolation, gory ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.8
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The Roost (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Part of a "special" late-nite television program...Four friends on their way to a wedding find themselves marooned on a mysterious farm. Creatures of the night awaken and the undead rise, as a night of relentless horror...Begins!
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot: zombie, road trip, survival, gory, isolation, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, on the road, redneck, killer bat, free spirited ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virus, zombie, living dead, chaos, danger, deadly creature, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, plague, dystopian future, survival, race against time ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Survival Island (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Teens trapped on an island are haunted by a demon hidden inside...a pinata.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: monster, gory, curses spells and rituals, teenage life, danger, supernatural, rivalry, village, escapades, survival, sorority, island ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.7
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Intermedio (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Under the border leading into Mexico, within a labyrinth of caves, a deadly presence haunts all who enter. For four friends on an expedition, the caverns become an underground graveyard as the tortured ghosts prey upon them, one by one.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: cave, ghost, hostage, supernatural, deadly creature, friendship, danger, survival, gory, violence, teenager, tunnel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, usa, california, texas, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Plaga zombie: Zona mutante (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A small town is the subject of some experiment with aliens where they were allowed to test some earth folks with some kind of disease, but of course it spread with disastrous results. And now, three oddballs have been dumped into the middle of this ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, scary, tense ...
Plot: zombie, virus, doctors and patients, survival, gory, chaos, plague, heroes, small town, supernatural, danger, mutant ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.
Style: scary, creepy, splatter, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, living dead, end of the world, gory, cemetery, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, survival, chaos, danger, cannibalism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Hood of the Living Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Death is only the beginning for the young victim of a drive-by shooting. Devastated at the loss of his younger brother Jermaine, scientific older sibling Ricky uses the situation as an opportunity to test an experimental serum designed to breathe ...
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: loss of brother, zombie, urban ghetto life, teenage life, supernatural, danger, ghetto, siblings relations, experiment gone awry, deadly creature, gang, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The deceased have risen with the instinct to feed on the living as a family is trapped during a zombie apocalypse. Wales. Based on George A. Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead".
Style: serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie apocalypse, walking dead, zombie, living dead, chaos, isolation, danger, apocalypse, gory, supernatural, farmhouse, night of the living dead ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Shallow Ground (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he ...
Style: psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: vengeance, investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, psychopath, murder, gory, public nudity, small town, teenage life, serial killer, supernatural ...
Time: year 2004
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36%
Day of the Dead (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the ...
Style: suspense, scary, stylized, rough, intense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, quarantine, infection, epidemic, small town, survival, survival horror, post apocalyptic, brutality, transformation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Humans vs Zombies (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dark Comedy and Horror unite in this satirical thriller based on the "Live Action Role-Playing" game of the same name. Students on summer break are exposed to a deadly virus that is spread rapidly through direct human contact. The infected ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, satirical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, epidemic, supernatural, survival, gory, chaos, heroes, danger, virus, infected, zombie apocalypse, zombie outbreak ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
30 Days of Night: Dark Days (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Eben.
Style: scary, dark, suspense, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, vampire, werewolf, gory, revenge, escapades, heroes, rivalry, imaginary, mythology, fantasy world, brutality ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, long beach california, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Flu Bird Horror (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of teenagers go on a excursion to the mountains. There, they are attacked by birds infected with a lethal virus. When the teens reach a nearby village, the haunting birds start passing their virus on to all the dwellers.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, exciting ...
Plot: virus, mutant, youth, chaos, deadly creature, survival, danger, teenage life, escapades, on the run, supernatural, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.2
 6K
Mortuary (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A family moves to a small town in California where they plan on starting a new life while running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, which is suspected to be on haunted ground
Style: slasher, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: afterlife, family in danger, murder, funeral home, small town, supernatural, mysterious character, family problems, starting over, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, zombie ...
Place: california, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.5
 2K
Severed (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...
Style: bleak, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot: zombie, murder, experiment gone awry, danger, supernatural, attempted rape, chaos, environmentalism, disorder, escapades, survival, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young militia is all that stands between a coming dead horde and their rural town decimated by the fracking industry.
Style: scary, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: zombie, creature, isolation, escapades, survival, heroes, danger, supernatural, gory, plague, zombie apocalypse, living dead ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.0
 8K
Unrest (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: hospital, supernatural, medical, murder, gory, haunted by the past, insanity, student, autopsy, prostitute, exploitation, spell ...
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.6
 749
Sick Boy (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie ...
Style: serious, tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: child illness, danger, zombie, parents and children, family problems, virus, violence, murder, evil child, feral man, killer child, bad kids ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Days of Darkness (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a comet strikes Earth and kicks up a cloud of toxic dust, hundreds of humans join the ranks of the living dead. But there's bad news for the survivors: The newly minted zombies are hell-bent on eradicating every last person from the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, scary, apocalyptic ...
Plot: plague, survival, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, rescue, chaos, gory, zombie, post apocalypse, epidemic, living dead ...
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