Movies like The Return of the Living Dead

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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
 7.3
 68K
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
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, splatter, parody, rough, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: zombie, undead, monster, zombie apocalypse, cemetery, punk, nudity, cannibalism, living dead, female nudity, crematorium, epidemic, supernatural, paramedic, infection, zombie attack, transformation, gory, experiment gone awry, striptease, public nudity, attic, blood, nuclear, apocalypse ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
Keyword: reboot, disgust, oldies, attack, bruise, outburst, visit, challenge, retrospective

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Most similar movies to The Return of the Living Dead

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, horror comedy, psychotronic and suspenseful films with plots about gore, supernatural, blood, zombie, deadly, undead and danger mostly in Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Return of the Living Dead: Night of the Creeps (1986), Braindead (1992), Re-Animator (1985), Evil Dead II (1987), Idle Hands (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Night of the Creeps (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style: horror comedy, slasher, grindhouse, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, zombie, college, undead, parasite, supernatural, macabre, teenager, survival, violence, gory, fraternity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 50s, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 103K
Braindead (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Style: bloody, splatter, dark comedy, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, gory, monster, living dead, supernatural, macabre, infection, body horror, virus, cannibalism, monkey, zombie attack ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
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%
 7.2
 71K
Re-Animator (1985)
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.7
 181K
Evil Dead II (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed ...
Style: scary, splatter, dark comedy, slasher, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: gory, supernatural, evil dead, blood, dark humor, zombie, curses spells and rituals, undead, demon, haunted house, time travel, american horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century, medieval times, 90s ...
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 47K
Idle Hands (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anton is a cheerful but exceedingly non-ambitious 17-year-old stoner who lives to stay buzzed, watch TV, and moon over Molly, the beautiful girl who lives next door. However, it turns out that the old cliché about idle hands being the devil's ...
Style: slasher, humorous, scary, suspense, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: halloween, supernatural, stoner, macabre, high school, youth, ghost, murder, dark humor, teenager, weed, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 88K
Slither (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
Style: suspense, entertaining, black comedy, space horror, funny ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: alien, monster, parasite, zombie, body horror, alien invasion, gory, zombie attack, infection, creature feature, creature, small town ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Zombie Strippers (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie ...
Style: sexy, humorous, stylized, grindhouse, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: stripper, zombie, experiment gone awry, striptease, violence, deadly virus, virus, chaos, nothing goes right, danger, race against time, supernatural ...
Time: year 2008, future, 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Night of the Comet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous ...
Style: scary, black comedy, apocalyptic, parody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: post apocalypse, zombie, end of the world, disaster, mad scientist, survival, teenager, radio station, dystopia, sister sister relationship, zombie attack, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
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, creepy ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, living dead, post apocalypse, infected, plague, terror, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2000, future, year 2003 ...
Place: usa, midwest, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
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: grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, monster, epidemic, end of the world, survival, living dead, siege, shopping mall, undead ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, philadelphia, bolivia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 6.5
 22K
Society (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Style: surreal, psychological, disturbing, dark comedy, cult horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: body horror, surrealism, secret society, transformation, conspiracy, paranoia, nudity, dark humor, cheerleader, cannibalism, psychiatrist, homoerotic fight ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 2K
Frightmare (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama students decide to pay tribute to their favorite horror star by stealing his body from his crypt for a farewell party. They fail to realize their violation of the tomb has triggered powerful black magic, and Conrad hasn't taken his final ...
Style: slasher, horror comedy, grindhouse, retro, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, exploitation, survival, cemetery, teenager, mental disorder, paranormal, undead, living dead, cannibal, dead, serial killer ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put ...
Style: funny, horror comedy, not serious, humorous, scary ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: zombie, teenager, gory, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, friendship, survival, strip club, zombie attack, supernatural, youth, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.9
 292K
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
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, suspense, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, infected, survival, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, plague, deadly virus, post apocalypse, infection, chaos, gory ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 20K
Zombeavers (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin.
Style: humorous, parody, absurd, scary, bloody ...
Plot: zombie, beaver, monster, mutation, gory, sorority girl, bear, creature feature, blood, animal, mutant, stupidity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Day of the Dead (1985)
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, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, virus, apocalypse, gory, mad scientist, violence, insanity, macabre, survival, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.4
 3K
Bio-Zombie (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A soft drink tainted with bio-chemicals has the power to turn people into flesh-eating zombies.
Style: rough, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, horror comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, store, survival, friendship, shopping mall, plague, chaos, supernatural, danger, living dead, infection, cannibalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 30K
House (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Roger Cobb is a author who has just separated from his wife. He moves into a new house and tries to work on a novel based on his experiences in the Vietnam War. Strange things start happening around him; little things at first, but as they become ...
Style: scary, cult classic, horror comedy, creepy, grindhouse ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, vietnam war, zombie, monster, supernatural, missing person, house, haunted, writers, happy ending, husband murders wife ...
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 2K
Doom Asylum (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A demented coroner uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.
Style: slasher, suspense, brutal, rough, bleak ...
Plot: psychopath, violence, survival, old dark house, murder, torture, group of friends, death, sadism, serial killer, mistaken identity, car accident ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 9K
Dead Heat (1988)
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, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, reluctant partners, undead, monster, zombie, gory, vengeance, supernatural, mad scientist, police investigation, exploitation, violence ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
C.H.U.D. II - Bud the Chud (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors go awry, and legions of murderous zombies are unleased upon a surburan neighborhood.
Style: scary, humorous, independent film, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, halloween, monster, reanimated corpse, mutation, high school student, blood, mutant, pitchfork, high school, undead, infected ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Dead Don't Die (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.
Style: horror comedy, scary, dark comedy, intense, funny ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: zombie, epidemic, virus, undead, zombie apocalypse, small town, police station, zombie attack, decapitation, dark humor, supernatural, living dead ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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.
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Dance of the Dead (2008)
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 ⇓
50%
 6.6
 43K
The Blob (1988)
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: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Freaks of Nature (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.
Style: funny, parody, humorous, horror comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, vampire, small town, high school, nerd, alien, supernatural, humanity, alien invasion, monster, save the day, ufo ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
 15K
Undead (2003)
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 ⇓
50%
 5.6
 83K
Cabin Fever (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, rough, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, gory, infected, disease, body horror, plague, danger, fear, woods, survival, cabin in the woods, friendship ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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