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Plot Summary:
A man-made virus, 'The Killing Strain'-- an out-of-control swine flu-- turns infected humans into raging monsters. As it rapidly spreads, a group of uninfected survivors must make life-or-death decisions before the U.S. military firebombs the area in a desperate attempt contain the contagion. The survivors are unaware that the virus has already reached their group-- by infecting one of them-- and now the merciless metamorphic process has begun.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic
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Some Be (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mexican feature film.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Hall (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a hotel hallway is ravaged by a dreadful airborne virus, pregnant Japanese runaway wife Naomi is tragically thrust into the fight of her life. After getting infected, she is forced to crawl her way through other helpless victims to escape. In the room next door to her is Val, a mother trapped in a toxic marriage, who must also navigate her way out of the hotel corridor through the long and narrow stretch of isolated carnage, desperately looking for her young daughter Kelly. Will these two women avoid the debilitating sickness and get out alive?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 76%
Lazarus: Day of the Living Dead (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1957, insurance investigator George Lazarus is tasked with interviewing twelve employees of the Deadly Sin Cigarette Company when his firm receives a suspicious insurance claim. He learns that all twelve had been let go after contracting mysterious illnesses, but before he can report back, Lazarus goes missing without a trace. After his disappearance, his fiancée Bethany and his friend Chip set out to find him - but what they uncover may actually signal the end of the entire human race.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, retro, detective
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Get the Hell Out (2020)
Plot Summary:
A group, lead by a loser MP and his assistant, must work together to stay alive after a virus infects the Taiwanese parliament and turns them all into ravenous zombies.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak, humorous, suspenseful
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Quarantine Girl (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman's mental state deteriorates as she isolates herself during an epidemic.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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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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Re-Elected (2020)
Plot Summary:
Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, bleak, humorous, suspense, psychotronic
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Walking Dead In The West (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Arizona Territory, the 1870's. Marshal Frank Wilcox, along with a Buffalo Soldier from the U.S. Army, must galvanize a group of survivors to fight back when the living dead rise and seek the flesh of the living. It's a world gone mad and a battle against the unthinkable. Joined by an Apache Chief and an outlaw prisoner, the group must learn how to survive in a time where the dead walk.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, wild
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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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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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Escape to the Cove (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a pandemic has ravaged the earth. Fear, greed and destruction have made way for such terrors as famine, pirates, and zombies. Cairo Yazid's only chance for survival is to join forces with a curmudgeon, Solomon, also still untouched by the fatal virus, and he is the only one who knows the secret location of the safe place known simply as The Cove.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, apocalyptic
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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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Atomic Zombies!!! (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two weeks after a local nuclear power plant explosion (which totally wasn't an evil secret Nazi research laboratory), zombies have taken over the town!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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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
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 77%
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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Face of Evil (2016)
Plot Summary:
On July 4th, private Jay Williams returns home from the Middle East, but a mysterious epidemic breaks out and infects his friends at his party. On the road to salvation, Jay is joined by his ex-sergeant, who reveals chilling secrets leading to a conspiracy. The night has just begun, as they embark on a survival quest for the ultimate truth.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Carrier (2015)
Plot Summary:
England has been overrun by a pandemic with no apparent cure. As the infection continues to spread, safety - for a lucky few - looms in the form of a damaged 747 set to seek solace abroad. It's only once the plane is airborne that the survivors discover the infection made it onto the flight with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
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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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One Last Sunset Redux (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of survivors struggle to exist as a virus begins to turn the entire human population into flesh eating zombies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Virus of the Dead (2018)
Plot Summary:
What happens when an uncontrollable virus turns the living into the living dead?.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: anthology, psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Dead the Damned and the Darkness (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a savage land where zombies roam freely - Lieutenant Colonel Sawyer is armed with machine guns, body armor and courage. He is on a mission to give his family a burial at sea. To reach the coast, he must enter a quarantined infected zone and fight through hordes of bloodthirsty zombies. There he encounters a group of survivors including a young woman who is a target of both the male survivors and the ravenous zombies. To protect the last non-infected humans and complete his mission, Colonel Sawyer must face the Dead, the Damned and the Darkness.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, scenic
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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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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