Movies like Survival of the Dead

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Survival of the Dead (2009)
 4.8
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Survival of the Dead (2009)
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, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, retro, psychotronic, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, supernatural, survival, virus, gory, monster, living dead, infected, chaos, danger, violence spree, group of strangers, siege, undead, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, night of the living dead, eaten alive, death, social commentary, island, jungle, epidemic, desert island ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: delaware, usa, philadelphia, ireland
Keyword: reboot, stable, gangsters, irish, retrospective

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Most similar movies to Survival of the Dead

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about zombie, deadly, survival, supernatural, danger, epidemic and infected mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Survival of the Dead: The Crazies (2010), Feast (2005), Dead Set (2008), The Walking Dead (2010), The Night Eats the World (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Land of the Dead (2005)
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: suspense, scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie attack, gory, virus, end of the world, violence, cannibalism, post apocalyptic, zombie outbreak ...
Time: future, year 2005, year 1995, 90s, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ 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 (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 ⇓
100%
 6.5
 128K
The Crazies (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: epidemic, infected, virus, plague, insanity, deadly virus, survival, gory, infection, chaos and mayhem, quarantine, transformation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Feast (2005)
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%
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%
 7.6
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Dead Set (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
TV show
Story: During a fictional series of Big Brother, a zombie outbreak occurs, but the house-mates are unaware of the impending doom outside of the Big Brother House.
Style: scary, suspense, bleak, intense, bloody ...
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, group of strangers, gory, supernatural, cannibalism, dark humor, apocalypse, danger, confined, survival, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Walking Dead (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, supernatural, pandemic, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, plague, undead, fear ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Night Eats the World (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After waking up in an apartment where only the night before a party was raging, Sam is forced to come to grips with reality: He is now alone and the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris. Petrified with fear, Sam is going to have to ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: zombie, epidemic, infection, loneliness, zombie survival, suicide, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, survival horror, virus, one against many, survival ...
Place: paris france
⇓ 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 ⇓
18%
Diary of the Dead (2007)
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, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, found footage, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, chase, danger, gory, filmmaker, virus, transformation, supernatural, creature feature ...
Time: year 2000, year 2007, 2000s
Place: bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Day of the Dead (2008)
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 ⇓
34%
Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.
Style: scary, apocalyptic, tense, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: zombie, infected, zombie outbreak, post apocalypse, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, virus, vaccine, survival horror, child, military, living dead ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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[REC] 3: Genesis (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The action now takes place miles away from the original location and partly in broad daylight, giving the film an entirely fresh yet disturbing new reality. The infection has left the building. In a clever twist that draws together the plots of the ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: wedding, infection, virus, gory, quarantine, found footage, monster, chainsaw murder, supernatural, apocalypse, danger, plague ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Both an homage to and a re-imagining of the original 1968 film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D!
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, dark, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: living dead, survival, supernatural, danger, isolation, gory, zombie, night of the living dead, infected, undead, zombie attack, virus ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
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, mockumentary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: infected, virus, zombie, infection, quarantine, plague, stewardess, zombification, airport, chaos and mayhem, heroes, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
[REC] 4: Apocalypse (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ángela Vidal the young television reporter who entered the building with the fireman, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don?t know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional ...
Style: bloody, scary, bleak, suspense, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, quarantine, zombie outbreak, demonic possession, gory, virus, found footage, isolation, chaos, danger, violence spree, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.7
 39K
Z Nation (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Style: suspenseful, scary, exciting, tense, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, gory, survival, post apocalypse, supernatural, graphic violence, on the road, chaos, danger ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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 ⇓
27%
House of the Dead 2 (2005)
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 ⇓
27%
Humans vs Zombies (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dark Comedy and Horror unite in this satirical thriller based on the "Live Action Role-Playing" game of the same name. Students on summer break are exposed to a deadly virus that is spread rapidly through direct human contact. The infected ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, satirical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, epidemic, supernatural, survival, gory, chaos, heroes, danger, virus, infected, zombie apocalypse, zombie outbreak ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 63 min.
Story: When lovelorn Michael arrives in Berlin to return a set of keys to his ex-girlfriend, Gabi, as an excuse to see her again, he finds her apartment empty save for a couple of plumbers making repairs to the central heating. Just as Michael learns from ...
Style: serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, deadly virus, apocalypse, virus, zombie survival, zombie apocalypse, zombie attack, danger, chaos, rage, fear, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Exit Humanity (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Adam has disappeared. He must battle his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, bleak, tense ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, survival, obsessive quest, life turned upside down, civil war, chaos, escapades, danger, life is a bitch, good versus evil, american civil war ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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State of Emergency (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie, plague, chaos, quarantine, isolation, danger, small town, infection, virus, infected, monster, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Flight of the Living Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, airplane, plague, stewardess, survival, confined, confinement indoors, deadly virus, air disaster, rescue, danger, escapades ...
Time: 2000s
Place: paris france, usa, europe, los angeles, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 47K
Maggie (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to ...
Style: touching, scary, bleak, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, father daughter relationship, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, zombie apocalypse, small town, transformation, post apocalyptic, terminal illness, danger, supernatural ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 78K
[Rec] 2 (2009)
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, demonic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, gory, supernatural, found footage, trapped, infection, quarantine, demon, isolation, demonic possession, monster ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Tooth and Nail (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world, a small group of survivors, who call themselves Foragers, plan to rebuild civilization from their headquarters in an empty hospital based in what is left of Philadelphia. But they're soon forced into a face-off war ...
Style: scary, apocalyptic, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cannibalism, post apocalypse, survival, cannibal, isolation, dystopian future, danger, chaos, life is a bitch, murder, post apocalyptic, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virus, zombie, living dead, chaos, danger, deadly creature, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, plague, dystopian future, survival, race against time ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.5
 442K
28 Days Later (2002)
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, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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