Movies like Night of the Living Dead 1968
If you like "Night of the Living Dead" you are looking for scary, atmospheric and suspenseful movies about / with zombie, cemetery, apocalypse, suspense, cult, basement and zombie apocalypse themes of Horror and Thriller genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps:
1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below).
2. Look for them in the presented list.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
132K
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" horror film, and it greatly influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, rough, allegory, slasher, surprise ending, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, apocalypse, suspense, cult, basement, zombie apocalypse, survival, monster, supernatural, cannibalism, zombie attack, isolation, post apocalypse, living dead, farmhouse, violence, rescue, macabre, chaos, disaster, human nature, confinement indoors, group of strangers, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1967, 1960s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, washington d.c.
Movie in categories
Most similar movies to Night of the Living Dead
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, splatter, cult film and serious films with plots about zombie, suspense, gore, survival, violence, blood and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Night of the Living Dead: Evil Dead (2013), Quarantine (2008), REC (2007), The Mist (2007), The Evil Dead (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
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: 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, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, post apocalypse, virus, survival, zombie apocalypse, living dead, zombie attack, walking dead, zombie outbreak, plague, shopping mall ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, midwest, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
177K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bloody, slasher, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, zombie, demon, forest, demonic possession, monster, brutality, violence, isolation, transformation, extreme violence, fear ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ 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:
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 ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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 ⇓
100%
Also search:
Final Destination similar movies
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A re-edited version of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by a few members of its creative team, excluding director George Romero. It cuts 15 minutes from the original and replaces it with 15 minutes of newly-shot footage.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
zombie, living dead, cemetery, zombie attack, gas station, black man white woman relationship, anniversary, redneck, farmhouse, siege, reverend, news reporter ...
Time:
60s, 90s
⇓ 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:
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 ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.
Style:
scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, supernatural, survival, monster, virus, chaos, violence spree, group of strangers, siege, suspense, living dead ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
delaware, usa, philadelphia, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
185K
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, suspenseful, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
found footage, zombie, suspense, quarantine, fear, infection, trapped, videotaping, virus, monster, epidemic, plague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
318K
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:
atmospheric, twist ending, psychological, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, survival, apocalypse, suspense, religious fanatic, fear, creature, small town, macabre, spider, twists and turns, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Also search:
Movies similar to The Hills Have Eyes
215K
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:
scary, splatter, psychotronic, controversial, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, monster, evil, demon, extreme violence, demonic possession, dark humor, supernatural horror, evil dead, macabre, supernatural, violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, michigan, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
77K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses ...
Style:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, lighthouse, ship, small town, revenge, monster, chase, murder, sword, fog, supernatural horror, supernatural ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, usa, northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, airplane, apocalypse, zombie attack, countryside, rescue, survival, race against time, violence spree, chaos, soldier, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
southern italy, rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, 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 ⇓
32%
Also search:
Films like Evil Dead
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Style:
psychedelic, rough, scary, satirical, neo noir ...
Plot:
body horror, military, surrealism, absurdism, suspense, parasite, post apocalypse, murder, fight, filmmaker, violence, escape ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Style:
scary, slasher, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, rape, serial killer, stranded, murder, dog, violence, torture, vengeance, cannibal, brutality ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
Movie in collections
75K
![[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, rough, suspenseful, intense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, supernatural, found footage, quarantine, trapped, twists and turns, suspense, infection, demon, isolation, demonic possession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
Also search:
Films like Saw
135K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, home invasion, serial killer, survival, murder, survival horror, masked killer, fear, hostage, confined, macabre, torture ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
124K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, cannibalism, suspense, massacre, youth, survival horror, chase, disfigurement, forest, manhunt, monster, cannibal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, usa, virginia, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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, satirical, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, found footage, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, death, chase, filmmaker, chaos, transformation, supernatural, violence, virus ...
Time:
2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Movie in collections
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, scary, bloody, splatter, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, suspense, cannibalism, death, massacre, survival, psychopath, murder, masked killer, psychological torture, cannibal ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, florida, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
Also search:
Movies like The Mist
286K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, suspense, small town, psychiatrist, violence, violent, high school, evil ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 80s, year 1963, 20th century ...
Place:
california, illinois, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desert, torture, cannibalism, survival, rape, fear, human monster, stranded, victim, kidnapping, trapped, massacre ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
102K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
home invasion, survival, deathtrap, masked killer, twists and turns, murder, massacre, suspense, confined, parents and children, macabre, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
Subscribe for new and better recommendations:
Related movie lists
