Best movies like Night of the Living Dead
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Plot Summary:
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" horror film, and it greatly influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, grindhouse, black and white, independent film, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, classic horror, disturbing
Best tv shows and movies like Night of the Living Dead (1968):
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Children of the Living Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Starting a new life in a quiet Pennsylvania town, Matthew Michaels only thought is to turn an old farm property into a profitable car dealership. He soon discovers that beneath the gentle surface, this small town is anything but calm and peaceful. Firstly, he learns that his new property is located on the site of a graveyard, which all the townsfolk regard as an evil place that must never be visited. He then discovers that years earlier the town had suffered an infestation of the living dead ...zombies who prey on human flesh. One zombie, the infamous Abbot Hayes, escaped destruction. As the construction team begin degging, they unleash the thing the townsfolk fear the most, the wrath of Abbot Hayes and the awakening of ... The Children of the Living Dead.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, suspense, dark, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition (1999)
Plot Summary:
A re-edited version of Night of the Living Dead (1968) by a few members of its creative team, excluding director George Romero. It cuts 15 minutes from the original and replaces it with 15 minutes of newly-shot footage.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Fog (1980)
Plot Summary:
Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: slasher, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse, cult classic, surprise ending, gothic, suspense, splatter
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Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Plot Summary:
A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, scary, brutal, bloody, splatter, cult classic, independent film, surprise ending, classic horror
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Friend of the World (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychedelic, avant garde, independent film, dark comedy, black and white, postmodern, scary, rough, neo noir
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Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, cult classic, bloody, mockbuster
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Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, splatter, creepy, rough, suspenseful, bloody, apocalyptic, cult classic, tense, brutal
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Pet Sematary (1989)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, disturbing, frightening, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy, bloody, psychological
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Zombie (1979)
Plot Summary:
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 zombies, who devour human flesh and seem indestructible.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, slasher, splatter, atmospheric, gothic, brutal, creepy
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Plot Summary:
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!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, black comedy, grindhouse, independent film, splatter, parody, rough, suspenseful, dark comedy, slasher
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Nightmare City (1980)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse, slasher, retro, surprise ending, depressing, suspense
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Diary of the Dead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, apocalyptic, suspense, cult classic, independent film, psychological, retro, perverse, psychotronic
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The Crazies (1973)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, scary, intense, suspenseful, rough, creepy, cult classic, psychotronic, apocalyptic, black comedy
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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic, dark, creepy, independent film, brutal, bloody
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Quarantine (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, scary, intense, suspense, atmospheric, creepy, serious, mockumentary, splatter
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Train to Busan (2016)
Plot Summary:
Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival….
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, apocalyptic, emotional, tense, bloody, psychotronic, suspenseful, dark, scary, touching
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Day of the Dead (1985)
Plot Summary:
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 made their way into the bunker.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: bloody, disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful, grindhouse, splatter, atmospheric, intense, apocalyptic
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Survival of the Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, retro, psychotronic, mockumentary
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[Rec] 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, bloody, bleak, creepy, demonic, disturbing
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Plot Summary:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, bloody, harsh, splatter, cult classic
Similar in 79%
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Plot Summary:
Five friends visiting their grandfather's house in the country are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 180000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspenseful, grindhouse, suspense, bloody, splatter, cult classic, creepy, dark
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Plot Summary:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspense, bloody, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, intense, tense, creepy
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Evil Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the discovery of a Book of the Dead unwittingly summon up dormant demons which possess the youngsters one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 194000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, splatter, creepy, demonic, atmospheric, rough
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The Evil Dead (1981)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 229000
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: splatter, scary, psychotronic, bloody, grindhouse, creepy, controversial, dark, lovecraft, independent film
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Day of the Dead (2008)
Plot Summary:
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 13th Part 2 & 3 and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) and written by Jeffrey Reddick.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, stylized, rough, intense, apocalyptic, retro, dark, scenic, classic horror
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 268000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, apocalyptic, intense, cult classic
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Land of the Dead (2005)
Plot Summary:
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 evolving zombies from breaking into the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, apocalyptic, atmospheric, stylized, splatter
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REC (2007)
Plot Summary:
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 193000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, disturbing, creepy, frightening, psychological, atmospheric
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The Mist (2007)
Plot Summary:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 333000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, surprise ending, depressing
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28 Days Later (2002)
Plot Summary:
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 virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 436000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, tense, dark, suspense, psychological, disturbing, creepy