Movies like Dead Heat
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Dead Heat (1988)
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
LAPD police officer, Roger Mortis is killed while arresting zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies.
Style:
cult classic, spoof, scary, humorous, splatter, black comedy, funny, action comedy, horror comedy, cult horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddy cop, reluctant partners, undead, monster, zombie, gory, vengeance, supernatural, mad scientist, police investigation, exploitation, violence, martial arts, police, paranormal, dead, supernatural being, judiciary, zombie attack, machine gun, creature, hardcore, extreme, violent, cannon ...
Time:
80s
Keyword:
partners, buddy movie
Most similar movies to Dead Heat
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and rough films with plots about deadly, danger, monster, supernatural, gory, disorder and blood mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Dead Heat: Re-Animator (1985), Bride of Re-Animator (1990), Return of the Living Dead II (1988), Dance of the Dead (2008), Undead (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style:
splatter, lovecraft, black comedy, scary, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, mad scientist, guts, hospital, gory, experiment, insanity, mad doctor, overdose, reanimated corpse, female nudity, laboratory ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
zurich switzerland, massachusetts, europe, austria
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
Style:
lovecraft, black comedy, splatter, horror comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, zombie, gory, laboratory, stop motion, reanimation, hospital, reanimated corpse, monster, undead, body horror, virus ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, south america, usa, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Style:
funny, horror comedy, scary, slasher, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, dark humor, undead, supernatural, apocalypse, toxic waste, infected, plague, gory, youth, night of the living dead, epidemic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
With Prom only hours away, the usual suspects of Cosa High (Cheerleaders, geeks, bad boys and the happy-go-lucky student council alike) are preoccupied with the annual rituals of teendom. On the night of the big dance when the dead unexpectedly rise ...
Style:
parody, scary, bloody, atmospheric, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, high school, supernatural, virus, apocalypse, gory, prom, cheerleader, violence, survival, transformation, small town ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, horror comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, small town, dark humor, virus, zombie attack, alien invasion, alien, undead, isolation, danger, save the world ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Zombieland
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
evil alien, hostage, alien, alien creature, battles, investigation, isolation, captivity, alien invasion, race against time, save the world, small town ...
Place:
arizona
⇓ 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:
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 ⇓
100%
222K
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, black comedy, grindhouse, splatter, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, violent, dark humor, blood, zombie apocalypse, virus, apocalypse, survival horror, infection, military, infected, survival ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, year 2000
Place:
texas, austin texas, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUVs. It's then up to mining engineer Chris McCormack and Sheriff Sam Parker to mobilize ...
Style:
scary, humorous, suspense, absurd, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant spider, spider, creature feature, monster, creature, disaster, giant monster, stupidity, dumb, heroes, mad scientist, killer animal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt ...
Style:
scary, humorous, suspense, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature, small town, monster, creature feature, oil refinery, survival, giant monster, chase, metamorphosis, stranded, danger, supernatural ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
mexico, usa, latin america, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Slither
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, chase, mind control, violence, alien invasion, revenge, monster, space and aliens, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In what appears to be a cross between Critters and The Towering Inferno, the residents of a shoddy L.A. apartment block are chased up to the roof by hoards of the eponymous hairy horrors.
Style:
scary, splatter, slasher, humorous, cult horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
alien, creature, alien invasion, little creatures, creature feature, monster, halloween, killer animal, extraterrestrial, tiny, alien creature, street punk ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The survivors are saved by the mysterious prophet Shot Bus Gus, who seemingly has the ability to control the beasts. He leads them into the sewers as they travel to the big city. Along the way they get help from karate expert Jean-Claude Seagal and ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
creature, survival, deadly creature, creature feature, psychopath, monster, heroes, gang, mysterious character, zombie, danger, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters.
Style:
scary, splatter, suspenseful, exciting, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, date night
Plot:
monster, gory, siege, graphic violence, desert, impregnation, creature feature, danger, violence spree, escapades, creature, survival ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Guesta Verde University, the deranged Professor Curien is trying to bring back the dead, killing students for the experiment. There is an outbreak of zombies in the campus, and the government sends a NSA medical research team, formed by Dr. ...
Style:
serious, slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, supernatural, chaos, soldier, danger, deadly creature, survival, military, plague, chaos and mayhem, antidote, college ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s
Place:
seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Beverly Hills Cop
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, black comedy, independent film, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, creature, post apocalyptic, global warming, supernatural, water, alien invasion, police detective, brutality, female nudity ...
Time:
future, year 2008, 90s, year 1992, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The monsters have made it into a small neighboring town in the middle of nowhere and the locals have to band with the survivors of the bar' slaughter to figure out how to survive.
Style:
scary, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
mythical creature, gory, on the run, social relations, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, escapades, rescue, gang, chaos ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A shy comic book fan is injected with an experimental serum and starts turning into a spider. When web covered bodies start appearing a policeman starts to investigate the strange case.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, semi serious, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhuman powers, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, deadly creature, danger, supernatural, heroes, good versus evil, laboratory, disorder, spider, monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator
Style:
suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, fast ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
evil alien, experiment gone awry, soldier, heroic mission, supernatural, deadly creature, survival, gory, danger, save the world, mad scientist, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. Whilst involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner ...
Style:
detective, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
reluctant partners, drug lord, heroin, police investigation, buddy cop, evil alien, investigation, good versus evil, humanoid alien, tough cop, space and aliens, alien ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
houston texas, austin texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Braindead
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.
Style:
slasher, christian film, christmas horror, classic horror, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, cop, zombie, monster, exploitation, supernatural horror, killer, car chase, police, strip club, guy, underground ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by ...
Style:
scary, splatter, lovecraft, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
mad scientist, zombie, prison, undead, afterlife, insanity, survival, laboratory, monster, gory, experiment, doctor ...
Place:
massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A scientific experiment goes haywire, creating an arachnophobic nightmare. If there's a way to stop them, somebody better find it soon before they kill everything in sight!
Style:
suspenseful, scary, natural horror, semi serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant spider, experiment gone awry, spider, creature feature, snow, mad scientist, monster, laboratory, heroic mission, gory, dangerous animal, survival ...
Place:
utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A female cop is gunned down and wrongly accused of using excessive force in a hostage rescue attempt. Maniac cop returns from the dead once more to seek revenge, destroying everthing and anyone that stands in his way.
Style:
slasher, classic horror, grindhouse, detective, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cop, serial killer, die hard, supernatural being, exploitation, monster, living dead, bad cop, dead, maniac, underground ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sleepy New Haven California is a small town with a big problem. A sixty foot slithering horror has arrived and shattered the town's tranquillity on it's path of death and destruction... Growing violent and more savage with each attack the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, natural horror, queer horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
snake, giant snake, dangerous animal, killer animal, scientist, monster, race against time, deadly creature, creature, creature feature, danger, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like Planet Terror
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the Fiji islands, the greedy and unscrupulous owner of the Valalola Resort Primal Park invites investors and guests for an opening party of his compound composed of hotel and zoo aiming to find partners for his discoveries. When a bunch of ...
Style:
scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dangerous animal, survival, isolation, chaos, race against time, danger, heroic mission, college, killer animal, creature feature, amusement park, laboratory ...
Time:
prehistory
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A batch of unhatched critter eggs are mistaken for Easter eggs by the country-folk inhabitants of Grover's Bend and, before long, the ferocious furballs are on the rampage again.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, splatter, scary, cult horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
creature, evil alien, monster, space and aliens, alien invasion, alien, easter, little creatures, creature feature, space, disaster, mad scientist ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, 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:
scary, black comedy, spoof, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, undead, monster, zombie apocalypse, cemetery, punk, nudity, cannibalism, living dead, female nudity, crematorium, epidemic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, scary, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
swamp, urban legend, gory, psychopath, supernatural, ghost, survival, serial murder, curses spells and rituals, danger, violence, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural, monster, mutant, creature feature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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