20 best movies like Evil Dead II (1987)

List of the best movies like Evil Dead II (1987): Blair Witch, War of the Dead, ABCs of Death 2, As the Gods Will, The Penny Dreadful Picture Show, As Above, So Below, The Last Man on Earth, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, Mulberry Street, Dance of the Dead.

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Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:01

Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Lithuania, Italy
Duration01:26

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.

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: 6.4
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryJapan
Duration01:57

Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. He and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror
CountryUSA

Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House."

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryItaly, USA
Duration01:26

Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

Two years after defeating a satanic cult led by his babysitter Bee, Cole's trying to forget his past and focus on surviving high school. But when old enemies unexpectedly return, Cole will once again have to outsmart the forces of evil.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA

A mysterious virus, carried by mutant rats, creates pandemonium in New York City in which rat-bite victims turn into homicidal rat-mutants. This movie centers on six tenants of a small apartment complex on the Lower East Side Mulberry Street as they fight to survive the night against the rats and rapidly multiplying cannibal mutants.

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: 6.8
Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:38

    After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

    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: 4.8
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:30

    On an island off the coast of North America, local residents simultaneously fight a zombie epidemic while hoping for a cure to return their un-dead relatives back to their human state.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryUSA

    The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of creating its own amino acids, thus obviating the need for food. They are then attacked by one of the leftover experiments and begin experiencing an attrition problem.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

    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: 4
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

      A weekend at a lake house in the Louisiana Gulf turns into a nightmare for seven vacationers as they are subjected to fresh-water shark attacks.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryNew Zealand, USA
      Duration01:25

      Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A group of carpet fitters are sent on a job to an old Country house in the middle of nowhere. However they soon discover it's a trap set up by the savage, cannibalistic family, The Hannings. The carpet fitters are forced to fight for their lives or risk ending up being the evenings dinner. Unfortunately they are not quite your typical heroes!

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:45

        A family who moved into a remote mill house in Ireland finds themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:45

        A wild animal attacks six medical students on a weekend hike in the woods. One by one, they become infected with a “feral disease,” turning them into rabid, bloodthirsty creatures, and the vacation becomes a nightmare as they fight to survive each other.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

          Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

          Markimdb: 2.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the revolutionary ZOMBEX - a rogue, yet, "clinically-proven" anti-depressant pharmaceutical manufactured by a nefarious organization. For those who call the Big Easy their home, everything is just now turning around for them. Or, could it just be the drug, ZOMBEX, talking... Just as things are turning around for the city and its people, they once again must face a disaster of epic proportions. Only this time, they're dealing with the prospect of losing the people of New Orleans as they turn into the city's walking dead.

          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: 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: 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: 4.6
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration02:30

          Veronica, the new girl in town, is lured into the woods by a group of senior boys looking to make her a victim. But the boys don't know that Veronica's been trained to handle herself in surprisingly lethal ways.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:40

          A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:33

          Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two friends confront personal demons, the consequences of past actions, and forces beyond their control.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryGeorgia, USA
          Duration01:28

          Four friends travel to a lakeside cabin for a carefree weekend, the fun turns into a nightmare when 3 of them end up locked in a hot sauna. Every minute counts and every degree matters as they fight for their lives in the heat up to 247°F.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
          CountryCanada

          Infected by a virus, a mild mannered HR manager attempts to fulfill his overwhelming desire for brains, all while trying to keep it together so as not to incur the wrath of his bridezilla-to-be.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:16

          Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien force, the friends must first prevent the slaughter of innocent civilians by a military vigilante ... and then overcome a threat to the bond that unites the four of them.

          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: 4.9
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

          Brothers Mike and Jody join family friend Reggie to battle the Tall Man and his evil minions from another dimension, for the final time.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:07

          Ten years after the events of the original movie, Victor Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and proceeds to kill once more.

          Markimdb: 4.2
          Genrehorror, action, comedy
          CountryUSA

          A group of veterans wake up after a night of partying to find out that the zombie apocalypse has spread across the United States. Together, they must fight their way across the country in order to find a cure for the outbreak and restore freedom before it's too late.

          Markimdb: 3.6
          Genrehorror, action
          CountryUSA

          Following the 9/11 attacks, the war on terror against Afghanistan continues. With the Taliban insurgents hiding out in the mountains however, they become increasingly difficult for the US military to engage. The solution is to try and flush them out by adding low level chemicals to the water supply. Little do the USA know however that enemy scientists have adapted the chemicals to make their own formula, one that can bring the dead back to life.

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