Movies like John Dies at the End

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John Dies at the End (2012)
 6.3
 40K
John Dies at the End (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, absurd, offbeat, not serious, dark comedy, atmospheric, enigmatic, horror comedy, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: invasion, dark humor, end of the world, dog, fictional reality, monster, out of body experience, buddies, anti hero, psychic power, save the world, portal, puzzle, trippy, drug, twists and turns, alternate universe, zombie, apocalypse, alien, travel, post apocalypse, time, epidemic, time loop ...
Time: year 2012, contemporary
Place: usa, las vegas
Keyword: challenge, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out horror comedy, scary, weird and dark comedy films with plots about gore, monster, supernatural, zombie, deadly, danger and death mostly in Horror, Comedy and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like John Dies at the End: Freaks of Nature (2015), The World's End (2013), Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010), Phantasm (1979), Creepshow (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
 6.9
 297K
The World's End (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Style: witty, absurd, humorous, funny, parody ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, robot, beer, end of the world, alcoholic, fight scenes, violence, small town, british, satire, obsessive quest ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 1990, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada, UK, USA, India
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Style: humorous, funny, absurd, dark comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: death, dark humor, gory, vacation, student, nothing goes right, youth, group of friends, chainsaw, accidental killing, friends, camp ...
Time: year 2010, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: virginia, usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.6
 41K
Phantasm (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style: scary, atmospheric, slasher, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, tall man, small town, funeral, cemetery, supernatural, monster, investigation, murder, mausoleum, hearse, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.8
 53K
Creepshow (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Style: anthology, dark comedy, suspenseful, grindhouse, scary ...
Plot: monster, death, murder, torture, gory, zombie, dark humor, transformation, brutality, voodoo, demon, life & death ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 19th century, 1830s, future
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Tall Man, that imposing menace from Morningside Mortuary, is back and once again haunting the thoughts of the now-adult Mike and his friend, ex-Ice Cream vendor Reggie. The two continue their hunt for the mysterious figure and in his path of ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, splatter, scary, spooky ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: supernatural, space and aliens, monster, serial killer, gory, tall man, zombie, alien invasion, supernatural horror, cemetery, undead, mausoleum ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Style: mockumentary, absurd, humorous, gothic, parody ...
Audience: family friendly, kids, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, dark humor, werewolf, friendship, supernatural, goth, blood, immortality, social misfits, roommate, zombie, found footage ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 1912, year 1978, year 1997 ...
Place: new zealand, oceania, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rapture-Palooza (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two teens battle their way through a religious apocalypse on a mission to defeat the Antichrist.
Style: funny, parody, humorous, surreal, stylized ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: apocalypse, religion, good versus evil, devil, save the world, dark humor, survival, unlikely hero, satire, god, partner, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.9
 18K
The Stuff (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, ...
Style: slasher, satirical, absurd, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: addiction, zombie, conspiracy, satire, small town, monster, investigation, body horror, boy, consumerism, transformation, advertising ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time he tries to find the origins of his enemy, and what really happened the night that his brother died. ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, terrifying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, desert, time travel, good versus evil, zombie, living dead, siblings relations, heroic mission, riddles and clues, gory, chases and races, race against time ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 22K
The Signal (2007)
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: suspenseful, scary, dark comedy, psychological, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, zombie, brutality, chaos, psychopath, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, danger, survival, murder, virus, epidemic ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 17K
Phantasm II (1988)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, splatter, scary, classic horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: supernatural, gory, mortician, cemetery, good versus evil, monster, zombie, death, priest, chainsaw, funeral home, small town ...
Time: 80s
Place: oregon, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 25K
Wishmaster (1997)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: demon, supernatural, djinn, genie, devil, wish come true, violence, transformation, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, monster, blood ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 8K
TerrorVision (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
Style: horror comedy, cult horror, psychotronic, scary, slasher ...
Plot: creature feature, television, exploitation, body horror, alien invasion, satellite, alien, punk, creature, alien disguised as human, alien on earth, friendly alien ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 133K
The Watch (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, alien invasion, father daughter relationship, invasion, friendship, space and aliens, creature, farce, profanity, disguise, silly humor, lifestyle ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary blokes who all have dreams and hopes for an exciting and better future
Style: humorous, tricky, funny, entertaining, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, time loop, sent to the future, alternate reality, time, friendship, existence paradox, space, underdog, pub, disorder ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ 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 ⇓
32%
 6.9
 51K
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then ...
Style: black comedy, funny, independent film, humorous, scary ...
Plot: mummy, mental illness, president, undead, dark humor, nightmare, roommate, monster, irreverent, musician, old man, friendship ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, las vegas, usa, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Knights of Badassdom (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Three best friends and dedicated roleplayers take to the woods to reenact a dungeons and dragons-like scenario as a live action role-playing game. Trouble arises when a prop spellbook purchased from the internet ends up being a genuine grimoire and ...
Style: humorous, stylized, satirical, semi serious, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: role playing, supernatural, ritual, succubus, sword, magic mushroom, breaking up with girlfriend, medieval, murder, demon, deadly creature, misfit ...
Time: middle ages, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 7K
Vamp (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to entertain their college friends.
Style: scary, slasher, humorous, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, strip club, college, dark humor, chase, violence, justice, supernatural ability, dangerous attraction, female vampire, misfit ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
29%
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 ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: zombie, undead, monster, zombie apocalypse, cemetery, punk, nudity, cannibalism, living dead, female nudity, crematorium, epidemic ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
50%
Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The class of nuke 'em high is back, and this time they're in college! Tromaville's nuclear factory has been rebuilt and now includes the Tromaville institute of technology. Located inside the nuclear plant, Tromaville Tech is where ...
Style: grindhouse, horror comedy, independent film, fast, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: monster, martial arts, reporter, body horror, guts, nudity, mutant, school, college, profanity, silly humor, anti hero ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.5
 617K
Zombieland (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to ...
Style: funny, humorous, apocalyptic, road movie, parody ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, manly ...
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, survival, road trip, virus, amusement park, end of the world, living dead, dark humor, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2009, near future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., los angeles, ohio, columbus ohio, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.6
 30K
From Beyond (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style: scary, lovecraft, demonic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, transformation, supernatural, monster, experiment, zombie, gory, laboratory, another dimension, murder, obsession ...
Time: year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Humans... the other white meat... Unless you're black, then it's dark meat... Or if you are Asian, then it's yellow meat... Or if you are Native American, it's red meat...
Style: scary, semi serious, humorous, horror musical, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: body horror, zombie, vengeance, chicken, deadly creature, danger, toxic, castration, monster, protest, protest sign, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.3
 11K
The Revenant (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A horror movie/buddy comedy about Joey and his undead friend Bart who comes back from the dead as a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.
Style: humorous, horror comedy, suspense, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, supernatural, vampire, vigilante, imaginary, partner, police, dark humor, criminal heroes, vigilantism, undead, epidemic ...
Time: year 2009, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
Style: lovecraft, black comedy, splatter, horror comedy, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, zombie, gory, laboratory, stop motion, reanimation, hospital, reanimated corpse, monster, undead, body horror, virus ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: massachusetts, south america, usa, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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