Movies like Hell of the Living Dead
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Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
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Original name: Virus
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, bloody, splatter, campy, surprise ending, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, suspense, zombie violence, survival, race against time, female nudity, infection, zombie child, heroes, supernatural, rescue, journalism, disorder, mad scientist, deadly creature, exploitation, virus, violence, brutality, zombification, eaten alive, submarine, walking dead ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
papua new guinea, italy, spain, europe, barcelona, barcelona spain
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Most similar movies to Hell of the Living Dead
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and rough films with plots about zombie, suspense, gory, deadly, violence, blood splatter and gore mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hell of the Living Dead: Nightmare City (1980), Zombi 3 (1988), Night Shadows (1984), Mulberry Street (2006), Rats: Night of Terror (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
Style:
scary, gothic, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, suicide, macabre, buried alive, violence, small town, apocalypse, violent, monster, priest, extreme violence, investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
usa, new england, new york, manhattan new york city, georgia
⇓ 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:
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%
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%
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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 ⇓
44%
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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 ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
39%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the scavangers above in the wastelands. A group of scavangers on bikes come across a town infested with flesh ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, bleak, slasher, natural horror ...
Plot:
rat, post apocalypse, mutant, survival, dangerous animal, deadly creature, chaos, save the world, laboratory, apocalypse, survivor, eaten alive ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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 ⇓
39%
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28 Days Later similar movies
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 ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
35%
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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 ⇓
34%
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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, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, supernatural, chaos, deadly creature, military, soldier, survival, chaos and mayhem, plague, antidote, college ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The world - devastated by the Great Epidemic - is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno - try to give an answer to what has happened to the human race. Alen and Igor leave for two ...
Style:
serious, scary, rough, brutal, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, zombie attack, walking dead, supernatural, survival, strong violent content, isolation, chaos, mad scientist, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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 ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
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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 ⇓
32%
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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 ⇓
31%
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, splatter, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, monster, undead, punk, cannibalism, female nudity, crematorium, supernatural, paramedic, zombie attack, transformation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
usa, san diego california, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
31%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot:
survival, infection, suspense, farm, quarantine, creature feature, experiment gone awry, monster, race against time, escapades, genetic engineering, isolation ...
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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 ⇓
31%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany
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, atmospheric, splatter, bloody, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, virus, survival, monster, suspense, infected, zombie apocalypse, bio weapon, female protagonist, mutant, apocalypse, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
near future, future, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
30%
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