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Plot Summary:
Joshua and Penelope are survivors of a deadly infection that laid waste to humanity 25 years ago. When they encounter fellow survivor Abira, their lives are forever changed as they fight off the remnants of the infected.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 988
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, touching, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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It Stains the Sands Red (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, A troubled woman from Las Vegas with a dark past, finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone and ravenous zombie on her tail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, suspenseful, scary, brutal, slasher, mumblecore
Similar in 87%
Crack House of the Dead (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the dawn of a zombie outbreak an undercover drug deal goes wrong forcing the cop, the dealer, and others urban misfits to take refuge in the last safe place in the city - a Crack House.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Infected (2011)
Plot Summary:
Revolves around Marcos, a thirty something year old man largely unremarkable but for the fact that he managed to escape an epidemic of the undead sweeping through Mexico City - and, indeed, the world - by taking flight and surviving as best he can in the remote hill country. It is there that he meets and takes up with the oafish Renato, young mother Claudia and her young daughter Zoe. The rules to survive are simple. Leave no trace, make no sound and leave no odors behind. The undead, you see, hunt by sound and smell. And no matter how careful Marcos and his group are, the undead are ranging farther and farther afield looking for food as the population in the city dwindles. It is only a matter of time before they are found.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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A Zombie Exorcism (2010)
Plot Summary:
Opstandelsen brings the zombie apocalypse into the house of God. Simon's three siblings gather at his funeral - where all hell breaks loose as the undead rise from their graves, driving the siblings down into the deep dark catacombs below the church. Surrounded by death, they now have to face the congregation of zombies in order to escape the house of God alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, lovecraft
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Revelation Trail (2013)
Plot Summary:
In late nineteenth century America, a frontier holy mans life is destroyed as a gruesome power consumes the land. Standing between ruin and salvation, the man, known only as The Preacher, must find his purpose in the fight against the mysterious undead. Joined by the town Marshal, a man with his own set of demons, he faces the risen dead and the evils of the living on a journey to nowhere.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Year After Infection (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four stories, represented by each season, with diverse groups of people and the challenges they face after a zombie apocalypse. Trying to create a new life under the most dire of circumstances and dealing with letting go of their former lives, while coping with the constant danger of the infected. Will they survive? Will they want to?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, anthology
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Deadsight (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man with partial blindness and a young pregnant police officer must work together to escape a deadly virus that has spread across Grey County.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, contemplative, psychotronic, detective
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The Trees Have Eyes (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group of bounty hunters head into a vast New England forest to track down a dangerous felon. But as they get further into the woods, they begin to realize there is something far deadlier than a murderer on the run. The group suddenly find themselves surrounded by a seemingly endless horde of the undead, and with no shelter, no help and no end to the carnage, survival seems hopeless.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, independent film
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Long Live the Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five shorts in the zombie genre; "Dweezle", "A Picture To Die For", "Black Bone Woods", "Zoe Dies In The End", and "Here Lies Bud.".
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Thr33 Days Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patrick, Jeff, and Justin go to the lake to fish, and their day is ruined when zombies overtake the city.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Plan Z (2016)
Plot Summary:
One man has a plan for a zombie outbreak, when one occurs it will take all his will to stick to it and all of his courage to change it.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, independent film
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5G Zombies (2020)
Plot Summary:
In a world overtaken by a recent virus pandemic, all governments have conspired together to brainwash the remaining survivors using 5G cell service to create a new world order. Watch our world crumble from various perspectives...just when you thought it couldn't get any worse!.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Anger of the Dead (2015)
Plot Summary:
In a world ravaged by a rabies virus that turns people into hungry cannibals, Alice a pregnant survivor, along with two other men, struggles to reach an island unaffected by the plague. Meanwhile a dangerous man is on the trail of a mysterious girl, and Alice soon discovers that zombies are not the only threat.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 850
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, disturbing
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Exposure (2015)
Plot Summary:
We follow Sheriff Deputy Eric Weston in the wake of a Apocalypse as he struggles to survive the undead known as lurkers and put the pieces together to find his wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The Zombinator (2012)
Plot Summary:
College students from Youngstown, Ohio were planning a simple fashion blogging documentary before a zombie invasion changed their film, and their lives. Teaming up with an ex-soldier turned zombie-hunter, the co-eds face threats from the undead and their corporate overlords.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Call of the Undead (2012)
Plot Summary:
A virus gets loose in Taipei Army and SWAT teams oversee evacuation but in Ximending the gangs don't want the police They attack the military but when both find themselves under attack by zombies there is an alliance as they try and escape.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Taiwan, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scenic
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Night Zero (2018)
Plot Summary:
A dinner party turns deadly when a group of friends is trapped inside of their house after a massive alien invasion threatens to take over the world. Things take a turn for the worse when they discover that the chemical the military is using to destroy the aliens is also turning humans into zombie-like savages. Now the group must band together and try to survive the night... if they don't kill each other first.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Last Hope (2020)
Plot Summary:
The world has been devastated by the virus that has reanimated the dead to consume the living. Australia has so far remained unscathed through a brutal border protection policy and internment facilities. Derek Jones and the High Risk Response Unit restore order to the internment facilities when law and order breaks down. When the arrival of a mysterious girl collides with the uprising at the Briar's Hill Detention Centre, will Australia, the last hope for many, finally fall?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Beyond the Call to Duty (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five Spec Ops, Alpha Squad, head a simple Recon Mission that turns into an all out war for survival against a wave of undead experiments. Alpha Squad must fight, not just for the sake of their own survival, but the fate of the world.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Zombie Resurrection (2014)
Plot Summary:
15 months after the apocalypse, a group of survivors are forced to take refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter a mysterious zombie with the power to bring the undead back to life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Aftermath (2014)
Plot Summary:
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 Hunter survives the nuclear attack and is thrown together by happenstance with a group of wounded and frightened victims, including Elizabeth, a strong-willed confidant to Hunter, Brad - an antagonistic redneck jackass, and Jennifer, a barely coherent young woman suffering from severe post-traumatic stress. Together, they attempt to endure the devastating holocaust as they struggle with claustrophobia and conflicting personalities. In a makeshift shelter, Hunter and his dying companions wait for news from the government while fending off hunger, radiation sickness, and a horde of frightened and dying refugees.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, serious, scary, captivating, apocalyptic, independent film, erotic
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Disaster L.A.: The Last Zombie Apocalypse Begins Here (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a meteor shower strikes Los Angeles, toxic smoke is released across the city causing people to physically change and become violent. A small group of survivors plans to vacate the city by heading to the coast.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, breathtaking, suspense
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Germ (2013)
Plot Summary:
The military's attempt to shoot down an orbiting satellite unleashes a space-borne epidemic on a remote, small town. Deputy Max Brody and his girlfriend Brooke must battle their way through an army of infected townsfolk and soldiers as they struggle to save themselves and their loved ones from a horrible, early death. When cannibalism is contagious, will even the strong survive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 865
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, disaster movie
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Survivors (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kate Meadows (Joanne Gale) and her cameraman Duke (Simon Burbage) embark on a mission to uncover whether or not a government weapons contractor has secretly been using humans as their test subjects. As they dig deeper, they realise the brutal reality... The test subjects have escaped and are carrying a deadly new contagion meant for use in biological war. They soon find themselves in a race for their own survival as the military lose the fight against the infected and those responsible for the outbreak stop at nothing to prevent the truth being revealed... In a world without laws, without order and with nobody watching, how far would you go to survive?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Sickness (2017)
Plot Summary:
On this ill-fated day when many in this sector of the world go completely insane, a group of virtual strangers left with sanity have to fight to stay alive by fending off those out for blood. The heart and courage of different individuals are tested, as they have to figure out how to survive this chaotic onslaught of murder and mayhem, all caused by those with a mysterious sickness.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
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A Capital dos Mortos 2: Mundo Morto (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five years after the events of "The Capital of the Dead", Lucas joins forces with the traumatized Denise. Together they attempt to keep their sanity while fighting off the undead in a world where zombies are not the most dangerous beings.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Re-Kill (2015)
Plot Summary:
Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead. When they see signs of a second outbreak, they fear humanity may not survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark, apocalyptic, scary, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller, saga
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Raccoon Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
A plane bearing biohazardous material crashes into a town, and a deaf women has to navigate her way through the aftermath.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 830
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing
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The Walking Dead: Red Machete (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follow the path of the red-handled weapon used by Rick Grimes to kill Terminus leader Gareth; from its innocent beginnings on a hardware store shelf at the start of the apocalypse into the hands of various survivors, familiar and new.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, serious, captivating, suspenseful, stylized
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Extinction (2015)
Plot Summary:
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, retro, intense, bad ending, bloody, entertaining, dramatic