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Plot Summary:
When the last evacuation flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast, American Air Force Engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy (ROB FREEMAN) emerges as the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, scary, apocalyptic, atmospheric, suspense, saga, crying, serious, bleak
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Colin (2008)
Plot Summary:
Our hero Colin is bitten by a Zombie; he dies and returns from the dead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, splatter, scary, serious, suspenseful
Similar in 75%
Evilution (2008)
Plot Summary:
An alien bacterium resurrects the dead on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, futuristic
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The Dead 2: India (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Sequel to the Ford brothers The Dead. The action moves to India.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bleak, scary, atmospheric, apocalyptic
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Zombi 3 (1988)
Plot Summary:
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into flesh-hungry zombies, and a trio of soldiers on leave must team up with a group of tourists and board themselves up in an abandoned hotel as they try to fend off the agile and aggressive living dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Philippines
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: splatter, apocalyptic, epic, suspense, scary, rough, serious, slasher, suspenseful, fast
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Devil's Playground (2010)
Plot Summary:
As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological, disturbing, futuristic, fast
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Undead (2003)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, horror comedy, atmospheric, funny, scenic, apocalyptic, action packed
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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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Rise of the Zombies (2012)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, scary, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, exciting, serious, independent film
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Humans vs Zombies (2011)
Plot Summary:
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 become enslaved by the invading "swarm" intelligence and driven by an insatiable appetite to consume human flesh. Returning home, the students spread the infection to their fellow classmates and other unsuspecting townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, satirical, romantic, slasher, scenic, horror comedy
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War of the Dead (2011)
Plot Summary:
Captain Martin Stone is leading a finely-trained, elite platoon of Allied soldiers as they attack an enemy bunker. Underestimating their enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back into the forest. As they try to regroup, they are suddenly attacked by the same soldiers they had just killed a few minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they discover one of war's most terrifying secrets and realize they have woken up a far more deadlier enemy.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Lithuania, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, psychotronic, spooky, scary, exciting
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I Am Omega (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead. [An Asylum film.].
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, cyber, futuristic, fast, disaster movie
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The Cured (2017)
Plot Summary:
What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, scary, tense, apocalyptic, queer horror, melancholic, enigmatic, suspense
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Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles (2011)
Plot Summary:
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 humans) most plants prove more resistant because of their complex DNA. However, the simple genes of the plants lead humans to become grotesque mutations, in most cases even to death. Within one week, 90% of mankind are either extinct or no longer human. However, a small fraction of the earth?s population remains immune to the virus and must survive in this new and constantly changing ecological system. Tom cellar is one the survivors and on an old military base in the Eifel he has entrenched himself. Further survivors come together and succeed in carving out a life in this new world. But the GMOs - the ?genetically modified organisms? - constantly develop themselves further, and soon the fence of the base offers no more protection.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, disaster movie
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The Returned (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, scary, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, grindhouse
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Maggie (2015)
Plot Summary:
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 eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, touching, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, atmospheric, heartbreaking, suspense, cult classic, apocalyptic
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The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead. In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, exciting, serious, mockumentary, rough, fast, apocalyptic, fake documentary
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Patient Zero (2018)
Plot Summary:
After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent "Infected," a man gifted with the ability to speak the Infected's new language leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, rough, slasher, experimental, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film
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Zombie Apocalypse (2011)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, mockbuster, natural horror, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, apocalyptic, exciting, tense, rough, disturbing, retro, perverse, thrilling, psychotronic
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Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)
Plot Summary:
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 the plumber’s apprentice, Harper, that Gabi has popped out for a while but will return soon, the apprentice is attacked by his boss who has unexpectedly and inexplicably transformed into a raging madman. Together, Michael and Harper manage to bundle the crazed plumber out of the apartment and barricade themselves safely inside. Within minutes, they find themselves trapped in apartment block under siege from a horde of similarly insane people, apparently hungry for human flesh.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, enigmatic, disturbing, apocalyptic, deep
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Ravenous (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a village, things have changed. Some of the people are not what they were anymore. They start attacking their families, their friends, their neighbours... We call them "Les Affamés" (The Hungry). A few survivors go deep into the forest to escape them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, slasher, enigmatic, art house, spooky, psychotronic
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The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Plot Summary:
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 the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon the planet was infested with a new threat - the undead. So begins our journey into the dystopian world of the zombie diaries.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, mockumentary, suspense, futuristic, fake documentary
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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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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
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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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The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, absurd, apocalyptic, psychotronic, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Plot Summary:
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 203000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: scary, apocalyptic, suspenseful, entertaining, exciting, suspense, splatter, action packed, serious, action adventure
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World War Z (2013)
Plot Summary:
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 706000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, epic, splatter, suspense, entertaining, action packed
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28 Weeks Later (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 289000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, creepy, apocalyptic, intense, bloody
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#Alive (2020)
Plot Summary:
As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, exciting, disturbing, psychological, splatter, atmospheric, scary, rough