20 best movies like Dr. Caligari (1989)

List of the best movies like Dr. Caligari (1989): Phantom Racer, Frankenfish, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Grindhouse, Night of the Creeps, Piranha II: The Spawning, Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, Chopping Mall, Dead Heat, Slither.

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Markimdb: 2.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy, sport
CountryUSA

Seventeen years ago, NASCAR racer Cutter McCullough died in a fiery crash. But death can’t stop a man driven by revenge. He and his car are back from the grave to settle a score with his old girlfriend Tammy and his rival JJ Sawyer. Now JJ, Tammy, and their daughter, Jesse, are hitting the road with the Phantom Racer on their tail.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the murder. He travels with the biologist Mary Callahan to the location where the victim lived in a floating house and he meets his family and friends. They find that Chinese snake-heads genetically engineered that belong to a wealthy hunter are attacking and killing the locals. While the group fights to survive, the hunter Jeff arrives with his team to hunt the predators.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket and blue jeans.

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: 6.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

    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: 4.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA

    Lovely and resourceful Daria and Tisa escape a space gulag only to crash land on a nearby world where a guy in tight pants named Zed is playing The Most Dangerous Game. Zed turns the girls and another guest loose in his jungle preserve to serve as the prey in a mad hunt. Armed only with knives and their wits, the girls must battle their way across the jungle to a hidden arms cache before Zed catches and kills them.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA

    A group of teenagers that work at the mall all get together for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock down before they can get out, the robot security system activates after a malfunction and goes on a killing spree. One by one the three bots try to rid the mall of the “intruders.” The only weapons the kids can use are the supplies in other stores, or if they can make it till morning when the mall opens back up.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    LAPD police officer, Roger Mortis is killed while arresting zombies who have been reanimated by the head of Dante Laboratories in order to carry out violent armed robberies.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:35

    A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    Three tales, each more terrifying than the last. . . . A woman who is stalked by an axe-weilding maniac . . . a man who pays the ultimate price for a beautiful head of hair . . . and a vision of life—seen through the eyes of a killer.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA

    Seven female directors present seven short films.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel room so he can collect body parts to reassemble her.

    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: 4.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A group of oddball high school students find themselves trapped in detention with their classmates having turned into a horde of Zombies.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy
    CountryUSA, Portugal

    Maria, a fearless soldier, and TS-347, a man with superhuman strength, are being pursued by a military cell responsible for scientific experiments that have resulted in a zombie apocalypse. On the way, they will meet Pedro, a man with few ambitions and a great hangover. Together, they will try to escape to a safe place, but complications will cross their paths in the form of a nuclear bomb.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    When a sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure. Now, she must smoke out the whole school before it's too late.

    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
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA

    A fanatical animal rights activist releases giant pythons into the Everglades, believing the wild animals should be set free. When they start decimating the native animal population, an over-zealous park ranger feeds experimental steroids to wild alligators so they can fight back. The giant pythons and gargantuan alligators go on a killing spree, and it is now left up to the two feuding women to put aside their differences to put a stop to the creatures and the destruction.

    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: 5.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA

    In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy
    CountryUSA, Romania

    A group of teenagers who, in an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, end up releasing a horde of blood thirsty zombies.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryAustralia, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:32

    A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, Deathecation, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA, Russia
    Duration01:28

    A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:32

    A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the brutal murder depicted in the game actually happened -- and he's the killer.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryUSA

    Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of a new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

      In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain

      This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and her poodles are transformed into four drag queens. The whole thing grows even weirder as her boy friend escapes from prison and also encounters the meteorite, as does a mute Nun who is converted into a sexy drum majorette. Pursued by the prison officials who are after him, the whole group eventually come into conflict.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Nigeria
      Duration02:05

      Taking all that was great from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous "think tank," karate chop their way through flesh-eating zombies, and, of course, find time to go to the mall.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA, Japan
      Duration01:39

      Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.

      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: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy, musical
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      When the American Chicken Bunker, a military themed fast food restaurant, builds its latest chain restaurant on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits take revenge on unsuspecting diners and transform them into chicken zombies! Now, it’s up to a dimwitted counter boy, his collegiate lesbian ex-girlfriend and a burqa-wearing fry cook to put an end to the foul feathered menace once and for all.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA, Sweden, South Africa
      Duration02:00

      In a small peaceful town, zombies suddenly rise to terrorize the town. Now three bespectacled police officers and a strange Scottish morgue expert must band together to defeat the undead.

      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: 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: 5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA

      An idyllic island town is under attack by that most invasive of pests: zombies! Port Gamble is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. But wait, a rag tag band of rebels is trying to turn the tide and push the invading hordes of undead back.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA

      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.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      On the death of his father, Tim Webber returns to his childhood village in Somerset to find something sinister is disturbing the idyllic peace of the villagers.

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

      After an accidental explosion at a local mine, dinosaurs emerge from the rubble to terrorize a small western town. Now, a group of gunslingers must defend their home if anyone is going to survive in a battle of cowboys versus dinosaurs.

      Markimdb: 2.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      An offshore drilling accident triggers the release of a giant prehistoric shark. When marine biologist Kat Carmichael arrives, she runs up against corporate front man Roger Wade, who plots with Stewart to disrupt her investigation. With the help of Skipper Chuck and disc jockey Dynamite Stevens, Kat tries to find a way to defeat the monster which has evolved to a state where it can walk on dry land and fly...it's the SUPER SHARK!

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA, Spain
      Duration01:32

      Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.

      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: 3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a legend... or is it? It's a holiday weekend on the Jersey Shore and, unbeknownst to anyone, underwater drills have attracted dozens of albino bull sharks to the pier. When a man goes missing, TC (The Complication), Nookie and friends fear the worst and plead with the police chief to close down the beach. It isn't until a famous singer is eaten alive during a performance on the pier that the shark hunt begins. Now, the Preppies must work together with the Guidos in order to save the Jersey Shore and its inhabitants from another vicious slaughter.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      Meeting a man on the Internet, Julia decides to see him in person, only to get abducted and branded with the letter "x" by that guy. A game of cat and mouse follows, but the story has an unexpected twist.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      A woman leaves for a quiet weekend in the country after losing her job and imploding her latest dysfunctional relationship. She rents a country house from an old-fashioned widower who’s struggling to hide his psychopathic tendencies. Soon, two generations collide with terrifying results.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.




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