Movies like Day of the Dead
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Day of the Dead (1985)
79K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have made their way into the bunker.
Style:
bloody, cult classic, tense, splatter, perverse, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse, creepy, crying ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, living dead, virus, survival, violence, post apocalypse, mad scientist, gory, zombie attack, survival horror, cannibalism, experiment, military, dystopia, escape, scientist, research, eaten alive, monster, violent, insanity, claustrophobia, blood ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, pittsburgh, usa
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Most similar movies to Day of the Dead
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, splatter and serious films with plots about pandemic, survival, blood, blood splatter, gore, violence and deadly mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Day of the Dead: The Descent (2005), The Collector (2009), 28 Days Later (2002), The Thing (1982), Planet Terror (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style:
grindhouse, classic horror, creepy, dark, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, chaos, epidemic, virus, living dead, siege, shopping mall, gory, isolation ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, bolivia, philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style:
suspense, cult classic, scary, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, violence, zombie attack, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, gory, virus, zombie outbreak, survival horror, cannibalism, infected ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 90s, year 1995, 2000s
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
100%
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:
creepy, scary, splatter, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, living dead, cemetery, zombie attack, survival horror, gory, survival, vigilante, virus, reanimated corpse, female warrior, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
Style:
scary, creepy, cult classic, sexy, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, living dead, post apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, infected, zombie outbreak, blood, zombie attack, terror ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, year 2000, year 2003 ...
Place:
usa, midwest, wisconsin
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
Style:
slasher, independent film, suspense, scary, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, cannibalism, cannibal, masked man, desert, gory, maniac, masked killer, escape, violent, survival, murder ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, california, florida
Similarity:
100%
270K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, cave, survival horror, trapped, survival, creature, fear, expedition, claustrophobia, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
Similarity:
100%
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:
suspense, classic horror, grindhouse, scary, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, infection, zombie apocalypse, survival, cannibalism, zombie attack, basement, gory, monster, supernatural, post apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, home invasion, trap, psychopath, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, terror, psycho killer ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
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538K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style:
scary, frightening, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
distant future, year 2003, near future, year 2000, year 2002 ...
Place:
london, england, bolivia, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
75%
520K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style:
scary, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, isolation, survival, creature, body horror, alien, fear, paranoia, snow, ufo, suspicion, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
antarctica, antarctic, south pole
Similarity:
100%
232K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend Wray lead a ...
Style:
bloody, grindhouse, horror comedy, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, violent, dark humor, blood, hospital, zombie apocalypse, survival horror, apocalypse, infection, cannibalism, infected, military ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, year 2000, 70s
Place:
texas, mexico, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
249K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
Style:
bloody, splatter, demonic, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, manly, date night, adult
Plot:
gory, zombie, evil dead, demonic possession, supernatural horror, nightmare, demon, monster, extreme violence, violence, sexualized violence, evil ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, michigan, tennessee, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Style:
scary, slasher, splatter, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
infected, zombie, quarantine, plague, virus, infection, zombification, confinement indoors, stewardess, airport, chaos and mayhem, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
259K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, survival horror, self defense, danger, violence spree, security system, dystopia, family in danger, society, killing spree, distopia ...
Time:
future, year 2013, near future, 2010s, year 2000 ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Style:
scary, tense, apocalyptic, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, found footage, apocalypse, chase, gory, virus, zombie apocalypse, danger, filmmaker, death, violence, chaos ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2000, 2000s
Place:
bolivia
Similarity:
100%
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:
scary, stylized, suspense, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, virus, apocalypse, infection, quarantine, small town, epidemic, brutality, survival horror, eaten alive, transformation, soldier ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007
Place:
colorado, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Style:
intense, creepy, atmospheric, tense, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, quarantine, virus, infection, found footage, graphic violence, plague, haunted house, trapped, gory, rabies, cannibalism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, frightening, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, walking dead, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, peril, plague, fear ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, tense, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, starvation, epidemic, ice age, danger, survival horror, dystopia, cannibalism, underground bunker, distopia ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most ...
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, infected, female fighter, virus, tough girl, infection, zombie apocalypse, pandemic, chase, monster, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
washington d.c., tokyo, new york, moscow russia, canada ...
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. ...
Style:
scary, psychological, bloody, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
creature, infected, zombie, monster, infection, macabre, survival, parasite, death, virus, body horror, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
Style:
black comedy, parody, independent film, dark comedy, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, nudity, cannibalism, punk, monster, female nudity, crematorium, undead, living dead, zombie apocalypse, paramedic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
Similarity:
100%
151K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is ...
Style:
horror comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, slasher, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
manhunt, strong female lead, game of death, female protagonist, characters killed one by one, massacre, satire, danger, pursuit, murder, revenge, sniper ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
vermont, croatia, mississippi, arkansas
Similarity:
100%
140K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vampire, dystopian future, virus, vampirism, epidemic, supernatural, distopia, pandemic, cure, apocalypse, dystopia, female vampire ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 2019, near future, 2010s ...
Similarity:
100%
307K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain ...
Style:
scary, suspense, cult classic, splatter, saga ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, infected, virus, zombie apocalypse, artificial intelligence, monster, survival, experiment gone awry, post apocalyptic, woman with a gun, bio weapon, gory ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2002, near future, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
371K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bad ending, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, twists and turns, survival horror, cosmic horror, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, distant future, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies. NB: Not to be confused with the 1981 American-made film with the same title.
Style:
grindhouse, suspense, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, gory, zombie apocalypse, female nudity, virus, zombie child, bare breasts, infection, pandemic, zombie violence, zombification, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1979
Place:
papua new guinea, barcelona, europe, italy, spain
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, island, virus, zombie outbreak, gory, survival horror, zombie attack, living dead, zombie apocalypse, boat, doctor, shark ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, caribbean, italy, fictional island ...
Similarity:
29%
215K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Style:
scary, dark, suspense, cult classic, frightening ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
found footage, fear, zombie, trapped, supernatural horror, epidemic, gory, nightmare, escapades, infected, videotaping, virus ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
spain, usa, barcelona, europe
Similarity:
50%
84K
![[Rec] 2 (2009)](/img/movie/thumb/bc/7583.jpg)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
Style:
scary, bloody, suspense, creepy, demonic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, gory, found footage, trapped, quarantine, demon, supernatural horror, demonic possession, supernatural, infection, evil wins ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
27%
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