20 best movies like Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980)

List of the best movies like Encounters of the Spooky Kind (1980): Braindead, Big Bad Wolf, Alien vs. Ninja, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Orcs!, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, Undead, Mojin: The Lost Legend, Jurassic Shark, Chillerama.

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Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
CountryNew Zealand
Duration01:39

When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA

In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road 13, and travels with four classmates and his friend Sam to spend the weekend having a party with booze and sex. However, they are attacked by a Beast that kills his friends in a sadistic way. Sam and Derek survive, and they suspect that his stepfather, Mitchell Toblat, is a werewolf. When Charlie meets Derek and Sam, they decide to collect evidence to prove that Mitchell is the Beast and kill him, but Mitchell discovers their plot and chases the trio.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryJapan
Duration01:21

A band of ninja warriors, led by an Iga Ninja named Yamata, witness a giant ball of fire drop from the sky and crash into the forest. When the warriors find and attempt to identify the object, they discover aliens that attack and feast on them. Yamata and the survivors swear vengeance, but in challenging the aliens, they learn that their weapons have no effect.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:30

A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:18

Faced with extinction, two park rangers are forced to defend the national park against hordes of rampaging orcs. Ancient and long forgotten, these orcs are unleashed from the depths of the mountains, and they won't stop until we're all dead.

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: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryAustralia

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.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
CountryChina
Duration02:01

At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before his wedding, Bayi discovers his first love Ding Shitian, who supposedly had died in the "One Hundred Cave" 20 years ago, is actually still alive. Together with Shirley and his old exploration partner, Bayi unravels a terrible millennium-old secret...

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: 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: 5.5
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryIndia

Kaashmora, a present era black magic specialist; Rajnayak, an ancient era warlord and Ratnamahadevi is his queen. How these three are connected? What are the issues that arise?

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: 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: 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: 3.2
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:31

    When the world is taken over by flesh eating zombies, best friends Tommy and Edwin figure out a way to benefit from it by turning zombies into fertilizer for growing potent weed! There will be bud.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:28

    A gang of bank robbers team up with the residents of an old people's home to try to survive a zombie outbreak.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader: her goal is to "marry Christian Slater and die," and nothing gets in her way when it's time to shop! But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires. With the help of a romantic rebel, Buffy is soon spending school nights protecting L.A. from Lothos the Vampire King, his sidekick, Lefty, and their determined gang of bloodsuckers. It's everything you'd expect from a teen queen in the Valley.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy
    CountryHong Kong, France, China
    Duration01:31

    On the surface, Saya is a stunning 16-year-old, but that youthful exterior hides the tormented soul of a 400-year-old "halfling." Born to a human father and a vampire mother, she has for centuries been a loner obsessed with using her samurai skills to rid the world of vampires, all the while knowing that she herself can survive only on blood like those she hunts.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryHong Kong, China
    Duration01:42

    The young monk Taka and his three disciples are captured by a demonic tree. Taka manages to escape thanks to the magic stick of Monkey King and decided to go free his companions. En route, he encounters a strange ally called Meiyan, a girl who is half-human and half monster. As Taka and his new friend set off on a fantastic adventure they will face many hardships and battles and may very well decide the fate of humanity and the entire universe...

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Axe Giant - The Wrath of Paul Bunyon is a dark, contemporary take on the tall tale. Kids at a first-time offenders' boot camp discover the legend of lumberjack Paul Bunyan is real, but is much more horrifying than they could have imagined. They incur the wrath of the 15-foot monstrous giant, who was banished from town 100 years ago and thought dead.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Mickey, who happens to be a werewolf and a crime boss, gets all worked up and hairy during a private dance at a strip club. Justice, the dancer, grabs the nearest weapon and lands a fatal blow: her silver fountain pen right through Mickey's wolfed-out eye. This ignites a small-scale war between Mickey's group of werewolf mobsters and the sultry strippers of Vixens.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, action, comedy, adventure
    CountryIndia
    Duration01:48

    A rave party off the coast of Goa goes horrifyingly and hilariously wrong when the island is overrun with zombies.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    Demon hunter, Jebediah Huntley teams up with an FBI agent to battle a supernatural force in the southern state of Mississippi.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain
    Duration01:40

    Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

    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, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:16

    Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality.

    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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy
    CountrySweden, USA

    When Runa’s father disappears on a viking journey she steps up as head of her family, but she is tormented by strange nightmares. One day when she is out hunting, she stumbles across a wounded warrior who carries news of her father, new that seem connected to her dreams. Something is coming for them, something vile.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryUSA

    Helen Keller vs. Nightwolves tells the shocking story of how a group of Nightwolves terrorized a tiny village taking people's hearing and eye sight... and the one woman who fought back.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Zombie Hunter is set in a post-apocalyptic Zombie wasteland caused by the mysterious street drug "Natas". We follow one man who has nothing left other than a beat up Camaro and a trunk full of guns and booze. He runs down Flesh Eaters, hunting for sport and redemption, while also running from his past. After crashing into a small group of survivors, who are running low on resources, he decides to lend a hand. But a surprise attack by the Flesh Eaters forces them on the run and puts the Hunter's skills to the test.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy, short
    CountryAustralia

    A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the internet.

    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: 6.5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryFinland, Iceland
    Duration01:25

    A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.

    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: 5.4
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryCanada
    Duration02:23

    On a weekend getaway at a rundown cabin in the woods, Jason, a cautious teen, his crude best friend Colin and his fearless older sister Summer are forced to work together, grow up and save their hard-partying parents from their predatory neighbor intent on feeding them all to her undead family.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, action, comedy, musical
    CountryCanada

    The first testament says "an eye for an eye." - The second testament says "love thy neighbour." - The third testament ... Kicks Ass!!!

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
    Duration01:17

    A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:40

    After Using the instructions found in an old Jewish diary, Markus and Thomas hope to gain access to a WW II underground military base formerly codenamed: Cerusit. It was used by the Nazis as a secret research institute and is shrouded in rumors to this day about the lost gold of the Third Reich. The entrance to the cave system, however, lies right within the restricted area of a U.S. military base.. the first of many problems Markus and Thomas will have to face.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A horror movie/buddy comedy about Joey and his undead friend Bart who comes back from the dead as a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryIndia

    When a zombie outbreak occurs in a hill station, a traffic cop takes on the responsibility of transporting a team of doctors to a city hospital so that they can find an antidote.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
    CountryChina, USA, India, Nepal, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Iceland
    Duration01:19

    Chinese archeology professor Jack teams up with beautiful Indian professor Ashmita and assistant Kyra to locate lost Magadha treasure. In a Tibetan ice cave, they find the remains of the royal army that had vanished together with the treasure, only to be ambushed by Randall, the descendent of a rebel army leader. When they free themselves, their next stop is Dubai where a diamond from the ice cave is to be auctioned. After a series of double-crosses and revelations about their past, Jack and his team travel to a mountain temple in India, using the diamond as a key to unlock the real treasure.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    An action-packed horror comedy, BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS stars Fran Kranz as Evan, a dutiful and overworked employee stuck at a soul-killing corporation with his beautiful co-worker and girlfriend Amanda (Emma Fitzpatrick) and his slacker best friend Tim (Joey Kern). Evans world begins to crumble when Amanda dumps him and his boss Ted (Joel Murray) hands his coveted promotion to his nemesis Max (Pedro Pascal). When his office mates start going through disturbing changes, Evan must find a way to stop the evil brewing admist the cubicles, and rescue his workplace pals before his life and career go from dead-end... to just dead.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryUSA

    With Prom only hours away, the usual suspects of Cosa High (Cheerleaders, geeks, bad boys and the happy-go-lucky student council alike) are preoccupied with the annual rituals of teendom. On the night of the big dance when the dead unexpectedly rise to eat the living, polar opposite groups will be forced to unite in their final chance to save the town from the zombies.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain, Canada

    In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April...

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Romania
    Duration01:35

    Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar. He has a daughter, whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:30

    Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

      Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.




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