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State of Emergency (2011)
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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 inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, psychological
Plot:
zombie, plague, quarantine, isolation, chaos, danger, small town, death of wife, virus, infection, zombie outbreak, infected, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, epidemic, pandemic, undead, post apocalyptic, heroes, gory, escapades, small town life, radio, bio weapon, blood ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to State of Emergency
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and rough films with plots about zombie, supernatural, danger, deadly, survival, infected and epidemic mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like State of Emergency: Aftermath (2014), Zombie Wars (2007), Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011), Cabin Fever (2016), The Dead Outside (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas. The United States has hastily become embroiled in World War 3. A young doctor named ...
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tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, radiation poisoning, radiation, nuclear, supernatural, isolation, danger, chaos, survival horror, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Fifty years after a world-wide zombie epidemic had begun, a small group of rebel soldiers learn that intelligent zombies have begun breeding humans for food. The soldiers plan an all-out war to rid the Earth of the flesh-eating monsters for good, as ...
Style:
bleak, scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, soldier, chaos, supernatural, survival, danger, gory, blood, infected, zombie apocalypse, cooking and food, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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, slasher, splatter, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
infected, zombie, quarantine, plague, virus, infection, zombification, confinement indoors, stewardess, airport, chaos and mayhem, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, las vegas, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this grisly remake of the 2002 horror hit, five college chums rent an isolated woodland cabin for a party. But their fun quickly ends when the group is exposed to a hideous flesh-eating virus, and survival becomes the name of the game.
Style:
teen horror, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
virus, disease, cabin in the woods, woods, marijuana, backwoods, isolation, death, gory, hardcore, murder, epidemic ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A neurological pandemic has consumed the population. Drug-resistance has mutated the virus into a ravaging psychological plague, rendering the 'the dying' desperate, paranoid and violent
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
isolation, zombie, virus, bereavement, plague, danger, gory, chaos and mayhem, life is a bitch, survival, mutant, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Six college friends unite for a weekend getaway where they find themselves fighting for their lives after a terrorist attack turns the local residents into rage infused zombies.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, infection, bio weapon, survival, group of friends, isolation, friends, chaos, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
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:
intense, creepy, atmospheric, tense, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, quarantine, virus, infection, found footage, graphic violence, plague, haunted house, trapped, gory, rabies, cannibalism ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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, chase, gory, virus, zombie apocalypse, danger, filmmaker, death, violence, chaos ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2000, 2000s
Place:
bolivia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, escape, plague, zombie, apocalypse, on the run, survival, cannibalism, supernatural, social decay, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, caribbean
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Dominican Republic, Panama
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of friends head to a deserted Caribbean island for a surprise overnight bachelor party only to discover that the island isn't deserted. It's actually the home to a secret medical facility. Not only that, there's something ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, teen horror ...
Plot:
infection, laboratory, virus, pandemic, quarantine, murder, death, survival, body horror, contamination, danger, plague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
fictional island, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, mysterious, creepy ...
Plot:
epidemic, infection, pandemic, virus, quarantine, trapped, human nature, life turned upside down, society, secret, disease, post apocalyptic ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot:
apocalypse, zombie, virus, isolation, survival, chaos, deadly creature, danger, save the world, plague, post apocalypse, infection ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Logan Burnhardt is the ego-king of the airwaves, but his unflappable persona is put to the test when a terrorist bio-attack unleashes a plague of flesh-ripping maniacs on Los Angeles.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
zombie, terrorism, home invasion, infection, virus, plague, isolation, violence spree, escapades, chaos, media, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The United States Government has developed a highly effective nerve gas that is unleashed upon the residents of a small Maryland City. During the top secret exercise the infected citizens begin to convert each resident into a sort of living zombie, ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
zombie, danger, chases and races, supernatural, escapades, bio weapon, chaos, u.s. military, government, virus, infected, undead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland
Similarity:
49%
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, survival, supernatural, gory, chaos, heroes, danger, virus, infected, zombie outbreak, zombie apocalypse ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
49%
171
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, isolation, mosquito, survival, chaos, danger, plague, confined, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
48%
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, suspense, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, virus, apocalypse, infection, quarantine, small town, epidemic, brutality, survival horror, eaten alive, transformation, soldier ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007
Place:
colorado, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, isolation, infection, survivor, genetic mutation, death, chaos, danger, on the road, post apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted outside, causing outbreaks around the world. With nowhere else to turn, they barricade themselves indoors with only their phones, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
infection, zombie, buddies, new year, survival, virus, isolation, chaos, plague, friendship, epidemic, internet ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young militia is all that stands between a coming dead horde and their rural town decimated by the fracking industry.
Style:
scary, serious, rough, bleak
Plot:
zombie, creature, isolation, escapades, heroes, survival, danger, gory, plague, zombie apocalypse, undead, living dead ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Local mechanic Jake LaFond's life is suddenly disrupted when mysterious parasites transform the law-abiding citizens of his quaint hometown into hoards of cannibalistic zombies. Isolated from the outside world by an accident on the only road ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense
Plot:
zombie, deadly creature, chaos, danger, isolation, survival, violence spree, disorder, toxic, zombie attack, virus, infected ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A multi-national forestry company engages in genetic experimentation to increase logging yield in a remote section of forest...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough, splatter ...
Plot:
zombie, murder, attempted rape, experiment gone awry, danger, supernatural, disorder, environmentalism, chaos, survival, escapades, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, scary ...
Plot:
infection, found footage, zombie, survival, dystopian future, chaos and mayhem, gory, danger, deadly creature, rescue, on the run, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
united kingdom, europe, london, england
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie apocalypse, zombie, supernatural, gory, plague, zombie attack, undead, graphic violence, violent content, escapades, danger, zombie outbreak ...
Place:
usa, paris france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A viral outbreak turns those who are infected into the walking dead. Soon, the undead are contained, being kept in a maximum security prison. However, those who contained the undead are also trapped in this zombie-infested prison. Their only hope is ...
Style:
suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
prison, zombie, plague, supernatural, chaos, gory, violence, save the day, experiment gone awry, undead, infected, virus ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The Sequel to the Ford brothers The Dead. The action moves to India.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
plague, apocalypse, zombie, danger, chaos and mayhem, life is a bitch, on the run, farm, pregnancy, infected, zombie outbreak, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, africa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a terrible virus ravages human civilization, Ann finds herself living alone in a forest, foraging for supplies, and accompanied only by a radio that broadcasts a single transmission in French. Few animals even remain; the only survivors seem ...
Style:
apocalyptic, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
zombie, infection, survivalist, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, virus, female protagonist, epidemic, determination, grief, wilderness, forest ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
mutant, danger, battles, chaos, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, world war two, soldier, bio weapon, zombie attack, poison gas, violence ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
44%
637
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A thriller about a case of highly contagious swine flu virus engineered by rogue scientists. A cover up by a mysterious dark lady linked to the High Spheres adds action and mystery.
Style:
bleak, scary, serious, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
quarantine, mad scientist, psychopath, danger, doctors and patients, surveillance, virus, zombie, deadly virus, dystopia, drug, pandemic ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heros are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
Style:
apocalyptic, scary, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie attack, undead, zombie, on the run, survival, gory, danger, supernatural, prison, walking dead, zombie survival, struggle for survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
43%
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