20 best movies like Detention of the Dead (2012)

List of the best movies like Detention of the Dead (2012): In The Spider's Web, Plan 9, Doom: Annihilation, Jurassic Shark, Mammoth, Snakes on a Train, The Rift, Pterodactyl, Bermuda Tentacles, Lockjaw: Rise of the Kulev Serpent.

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Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

When a team of backpackers sets out to explore the Indian jungles, one of them is bitten by a poisonous spider and killed.

Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA

Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story. The beginning of an invasion! However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their own army set with but one goal… To wipe out all mankind! Only the townsfolk on this Halloween night stand in the way of total domination. From the police department, to those trapped in a convenient store, and even those trying to stay alive in the streets, this night will decide the fates of all who walk the planet and thought they were the top of the food chain.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration00:30

Doom: Annihilation follows a group of space marines as they respond to a distress call from a base on a Martian moon, only to discover it’s been overrun by demonic creatures who threaten to create Hell on Earth.

Markimdb: 1.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryCanada
Duration01:15

When an oil company unwittingly unleashes a prehistoric shark from its icy prison, the Jurassic killer maroons a group of art thieves and a group of college students on an abandoned island

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA, Romania

On a hot summer afternoon in the sleepy town of Blackwater Louisiana, a meteor streaks across the sky and crashes through the roof of the local Natural History Museum. The meteor is actually a spaceship containing an alien life form which animates the museum's partially frozen Woolly Mammoth and begins a rampage. Local authorities and Government Investigators join forces with Frank Abernathy, the Museum Curator, and his father Simon, a B-Movie enthusiast, to bring down the giant mammoth in this alien-invasion flick!

Markimdb: 2.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

Under a powerful Mayan curse, snakes are hatched inside a young woman, slowly devouring her from within. Her only chance for survival is a powerful shaman who lives across the border. With only hours to live, she jumps on a train headed for Los Angeles. Unfortunately for the passengers aboard, they are now trapped, soon to be victims of these flesh-eating vipers.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:22

An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...

Markimdb: 3.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, family
CountryUSA

A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch...

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

After Air Force One goes down during a storm over the Bermuda Triangle, the United States Navy is dispatched to find the escape pod holding the President. A giant monster beneath the ocean awakens and attacks the fleet.

Markimdb: 2.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

In the countryside, the boy Alan and his friend Becky steal a creepy wooden box with a powerful voodoo stick inside from his voodooistic neighbor. When the boy draws with the stick, his drunken father is attacked by a snake and vanishes. Years later, Alan and Becky are married to each other; while planting some flowers to celebrate the death of Alan's mother, Becky finds the box buried in the garden and she keeps the stick in her pocket. Meanwhile, five friends are traveling in a monster truck, drinking beer. The driver accidentally runs over Becky, but believes he had hit an animal. When Alan witnesses the hit-and-run and sees his wife dead, he uses the stick seeking revenge against the youngsters.

Markimdb: 2.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus - a giant robot doomsday device from the Cold War. At the same time, a new Mega Shark appears, threatening global security.

Markimdb: 3.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

A giant flesh-eating reptile takes the Arctic region by storm.

Markimdb: 2.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the beach, it appears that our large fishy friends have found a way to chomp on you when you're chilling out on the sand too!

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

After chomping through the fish population, thousands of starved lampreys begin attacking the citizens of a sleepy lake town, and the community scrambles to stay alive.

Markimdb: 3.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

When a top-secret laboratory is unexpectedly breached, thousands of rampaging raptors are unleashed on Los Angeles! A black-ops unit is mobilized to contain the creatures before they cause city-wide chaos. Simultaneously, a truckload of raptors is rerouted to a nearby prison. Upon their escape, these ferocious flesh-eaters are beyond containment. This is Jurassic judgment night for smoking hot sorority girls, sinister scientists, muscle-bound military and doomed death-row inmates! It's about to get bloody in Jurassic City!

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama
CountryCanada

The widow, Deputy Sheriff Jane Kozik, moves from Manhattan to Black Stone, New York, with her daughter Kelsey Kozik. There she expects to find a safe place to live. The day after moving, a homeless man is found dead in the tool shed of Jane's blind friend Beverly Rowe. Devin Hall and the entomologist Katherine Randell are summoned to help with the investigation. Devin is Jane's brother-in-law and former boyfriend, and Jane still has a crush on him. Meanwhile, Kelsey befriends the scientist Eli Giles, who has developed genetically modified wasps to the army as a weapon, and now he is trying to revert the process. When the wasps attack Black Stone, Jane, Devin and Eli team-up to attempt to destroy the swarm.

Markimdb: 2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA

Two women, aspiring documentary filmmakers, find themselves trapped in a monster-plagued Toyko in 2003.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water again, you can’t even get across the sand! BLOOD BEACH meets SPRING BREAKERS in an ace monster mash-up of smart nostalgia and up-to-the-minute visual effects. After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wake up under blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to make contact with the sand finds themselves at the mercy of a sea of flesh-eating tentacles. Will they ever be able to escape its carnivorous clutches?

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA, Japan, Italy
Duration01:24

A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.

Markimdb: 3.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, Romania

When most of the population of Earth is infected by a virus and transformed into flesh eaters and blood drinking creatures, a group of hunters lead by Tao and his sword chase the vampire zombies to eliminate them. Six non-infected survivors try to find the exit of an abandoned hospital crowded of the infected creatures. Meanwhile, the military is ready to bomb the whole area.

Markimdb: 3.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA

The Most Dangerous Game formula gets a monstrous twist as the mythical Hydra turns the tables on a group of wealthy human-hunters. Kidnapped along with three ex-convicts, former Marine Tim Nolan is transported to a deserted island where the super rich pay a fortune to hunt human prey. But this island isn't exactly deserted; it's actually home to Hydra the Beast!

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

People disappear every year out in the snow--but this year, something is adding to the body count. Jim and his research team study the Canadian Lynx every year. This year, he has to take his rebelling 16 year-old daughter, Emmy, with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, India
Duration01:45

A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him in this sci-fi action thriller. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his guardian, Henri, he is constantly moving from town to town. With each passing day, John gains a stronger grasp on his extraordinary new powers, and his bond to the beings that share his fantastic fate grows stronger.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

A dog turns from man's best friend into man's worst nightmare as he attacks everything that moves.

Markimdb: 3.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead. [An Asylum film.]

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:30

Scientists discover a giant creature under the Earth that is wrapped around the entire planet. When the creature wakes all grumpy, it causes worldwide destruction.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Canada, Germany
Duration01:33

A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien Facehuggers and a hybrid Alien/Predator are released and begin to terrorize the town.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
CountryUSA

Passengers on a murder mystery train that crashes into a river must decide whether to risk waiting for help in the wreckage or take their chances in the murky depths below.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA

When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryCanada, USA

A small town, desperate to recover from hard economic times, is under threat when voracious Snakehead fish mutate and survive previous lake chemical poisonings. The fish transform from pests to predators when human growth hormones are dumped into the local lake in the hopes of reviving the local fishing industry. Thriving on the hormones, the Snakehead fish grow to monstrous proportions, devouring everything within reach. Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in a desperate search for food - animal, vegetable or human.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration03:11

    Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryRussia, USA
    Duration01:30

    A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    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.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, detective, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    A group of researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a platoon of masked soldiers and dragged into a hidden continent in the center of the Earth. There, they discover that surviving Nazi soldiers are plotting an invasion of Earth to revive the Third Reich.

    Markimdb: 2.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA

    Based on actual creatures that for years have tormented our armed forces in the Middle East, these creatures have now invaded the southwestern deserts of the United States. The Camel Spiders now freely hunt for prey, unafraid of any predator - including man. No place is safe no one is beyond their paralyzing sting. In the end, a small band of hearty fighters are forced to make one last stand against the creatures.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Singapore
    Duration01:28

    Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.

    Markimdb: 2.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Giant albino spiders break free from the depths of Earth in New Orleans, making everyone’s worst nightmare a reality.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany

    When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote and isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training, they're thrilled to find a retired Olympic skier is there to help them train. But their plans are halted when a scientist working at a nearby government lab arrives with the horrifying news that a top secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.

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