Movies like Nightmare City
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Nightmare City (1980)
6K
Original name: Incubo sulla città contaminata
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, slasher, surprise ending, depressing, scenic, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, airplane, apocalypse, zombie attack, countryside, rescue, survival, chaos, race against time, violence spree, zombie apocalypse, soldier, hell on earth, infected, virus, infection, hospital, exploitation, contamination, pandemic, suspense, macabre, reporter, creature, supernatural ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
rome italy, southern italy, italy, europe
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Most similar movies to Nightmare City
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about danger, zombie, violence, apocalypse, corpse, gory and gore mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Nightmare City: The Blob (1988), Hell of the Living Dead (1980), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Contamination (1980), Demons (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, suspense, evil alien, survival, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, body horror, cheerleading, cheerleader, teenager ...
Time:
80s
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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:
scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, suspense, zombie violence, race against time, survival, zombie child, female nudity, infection, disorder, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
papua new guinea, barcelona, italy, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
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:
scary, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, chaos, infection, survival, shopping mall, violence, epidemic, monster, siege, living dead ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, space, mars, macabre, murder, investigation, good versus evil, survival, race against time, space travel, ghost ship, heroic mission ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, latin america, south america, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Style:
scary, splatter, slasher, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, demon, supernatural, plague, panic, death, demonic possession, survival horror, body horror, suspense, chaos, cinema ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, west germany, germany, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, apocalypse, suspense, cult, basement, zombie apocalypse, survival, monster, supernatural, cannibalism, zombie attack ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1967
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
21K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, twist ending, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, supernatural, small town, military, apocalypse, suspense, hotel, survival, extinction, good versus evil, creature feature, disaster ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
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:
scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, zombie attack, apocalypse, suspense, virus, violence, future dystopia, cannibalism, zombie outbreak, survival ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 90s, year 1995
Place:
pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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29K
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:
disturbing, bloody, scary, splatter, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, island, apocalypse, shark, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, violence, zombie outbreak, monster, suspense, living dead ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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, rough, intense, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, virus, suspense, small town, survival, quarantine, survival horror, epidemic, transformation, brutality, soldier ...
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Movies like The Hills Have Eyes
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into ...
Style:
splatter, epic, serious, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, infection, exploitation, living dead, zombie attack, corpse, military, scientist, terrorist, apocalypse, experiment, suspense ...
Time:
80s
Place:
the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
421K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
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, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, virus, survival, epidemic, fear, end of the world, rage, infected, zombie apocalypse, laboratory ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, manchester, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ...
Style:
bloody, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, living dead, virus, violence, zombie apocalypse, insanity, mad scientist, macabre, end of the world, survival, monster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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, splatter, slasher, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, quarantine, virus, infected, airplane, infection, plague, stewardess, zombification, airport, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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, campy, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, deadly creature, mutant, small town, survival, chaos, experiment gone awry, infection, plague, suspense, virus, monster ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Style:
scary, phantasmagoric, entertaining, perverse, psychedelic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
demon, monster, supernatural, elevator, zombie, plague, exploitation, virus, macabre, epidemic, supernatural power, apocalypse ...
Time:
80s
Place:
hamburg germany, europe, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the near future, a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren is a doctor ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, virus, found footage, infection, apocalypse, survivor, teenage girl, rescue, survival, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, zombie ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Professor Ayres discovers a secret in an ancient stone and when he opens a crypt, he revives zombies that kill him. He had invited three couples to visit him in his manor to reveal his discovery. However, they never get around to meeting the ...
Style:
scary, sexy, stylized, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, cannibalism, supernatural, evil wins, mad scientist, crypt, zombie attack, violence, exploitation, survival horror, body horror, sex ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
southern italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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:
suspenseful, tense, scary, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
quarantine, zombie, virus, found footage, survival, infection, graphic violence, suspense, supernatural, monster, macabre, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
28K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infection, parasite, found footage, monster, disaster, suspense, plague, virus, apocalypse, ecological disaster, infected, small town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
maryland, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Event Horizon similar movies
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Style:
scary, intense, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
epidemic, virus, quarantine, plague, zombie, infection, isolation, infected, disaster, military, survival, scientist ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, vietnam, asia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, infection, rat, survival, apocalypse, supernatural, save the world, dangerous animal, plague, mad scientist, deadly creature, chaos ...
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
215K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, 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, splatter, exciting, scary, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, violent, dark humor, apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, military, survival, hospital, cannibalism, survival horror, save the world ...
Time:
2000s, 70s
Place:
texas, austin texas, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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, splatter, rough, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, living dead, apocalypse, zombie attack, macabre, monster, end of the world, death, cemetery, chaos, cannibalism, farmhouse ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1990, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, zombie, brutality, post apocalypse, chaos, psychopath, survival, murder, violence spree, macabre, insanity, epidemic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Movies similar to Wrong Turn
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
Style:
disturbing, scary, atmospheric, harsh, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, cannibal, supernatural, mad scientist, survival, torture, island, mad doctor, zombie apocalypse, jungle, macabre, exploitation ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york, vietnam, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to ...
Style:
scary, tense, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, virus, end of the world, post apocalypse, infected, deadly virus, zombie apocalypse, chaos, suspense, chaos and mayhem, infection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
58K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research ...
Style:
slasher, scary, sexy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
space, serial killer, suspense, murder, monster, masked killer, psychopath, survival, space travel, violent, scientist, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cannibal, virus, cannibalism, zombie, maniac, vietnam war, plague, zombie apocalypse, murder, violence, on the run, survival ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, usa, atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknown to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh after government officials conduct pest control experiments using ...
Style:
slasher, surreal, atmospheric, gothic, depressing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, contamination, exploitation, hippie, apocalypse, supernatural, countryside, suspense, cemetery, cannibal, terror, zombie attack ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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