20 best movies like I Sell the Dead (2008)

List of the best movies like I Sell the Dead (2008): The Mummy, The Battery, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, The Monkey's Paw, What We Do in the Shadows, Grindhouse, Priest, Midnight Son, Rise: Blood Hunter, Doctor Sleep.

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, China, Japan, United Kingdom
Duration02:28

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?

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: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

After Jake Tilton is given a mystical "monkey's paw" talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, he finds his world turned upside down after his first two wishes result in his malevolent coworker, Tony Cobb, being resurrected from the dead. When Cobb pressures Jake into using the final wish to reunite Cobb with his son, his intimidation quickly escalates into relentless murder - forcing Jake to outwit his psychotic friend and save his remaining loved ones.

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: 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: 5.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    MIDNIGHT SON is the story of Jacob, a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, Jacob’s actions become increasingly bizarre as he struggles to cope with the effects of his worsening condition. Forced by the disease to drink human blood for sustenance, he must control his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A young reporter (Lucy Liu) wakes up and realises that she is not alive anymore. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a cultists that are responsible for her death.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

    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: 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: 5.9
    Genrethriller, comedy
    CountryCanada

    Rivalries, dark secrets, and sexual tension emerge when three best friends find themselves stranded on a yacht in the middle of the ocean under suspicious circumstances.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A rogue police detective in search of his parents' killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:37

    Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:41

    A Russian woman travels to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire, who turns out to be a psycho who sends their lives spiraling into a living hell.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    In rural Indiana, Noah and his impoverished family wrestle with the mysterious return of his now mute sister, Lauren, who was kidnapped and held captive for over a decade.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    It seemed like a great idea when all-around nice guy Max and his beautiful girlfriend, Evelyn moved in together. But when Evelyn turns out to be a controlling, manipulative nightmare, Max knows it’s time to call it quits. There’s just one problem: he’s terrified of breaking up with her. Fate steps in when Evelyn is the victim of a fatal, freak accident, leaving Max single and ready to mingle. Just as Max is thinking about moving on with what could be his dream girl, Olivia – Evelyn has returned from the grave and is determined to get her boyfriend back...even if that means transforming him into one of the undead.

    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: 3.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets. They do, and together they go to "Cirque du Freak" where they see many strange acts including a wolf-man and a bearded lady

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:46

    A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

    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
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travelers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make Farmer Vincent's fritters.

    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: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    This film is actually two one hour stories, the first based on a Stephen King story called the "Chattering Teeth" about a man who picks up a hitchhiker and the second is based on a Clive Barker story called "The Body Politic" about hands that rebel against the body.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:43

    Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

    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: 3.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA, Italy
    Duration01:34

    Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that "the Night Flier could perhaps be a vampire"

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Croatia, France, Hungary
    Duration01:51

    A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration02:34

    A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, short, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:08

    Chloe Keane is an stressed American fashion model living in London who is about to have the worst weekend of her life. She and her boyfriend are invited to attend a party at the house of a former rock-star named Stan and his weird family who live in the countryside. Chloe awakes the next morning only to find her boyfriend has abandoned her at Stan's house and she has been drugged and handcuffed to the bed.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, Canada, Mexico
    Duration01:36

    Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary
    Duration01:51

    Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom
    Duration01:53

    Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

    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: 4.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    In the town of Blithe Hollow, Norman Babcock is a boy who can speak to the dead, but no one besides his eccentric new friend, Neil, believes his ability is real. One day, Norman's estranged eccentric uncle tells him of an important annual ritual he must take up to protect the town from an curse cast by a witch it condemned centuries ago. Eventually, Norman decides to cooperate, but things don't go according to plan. Now, a magic storm of the witch threatens Blithe Hollow as the accursed dead rise. Together with unexpected new companions, Norman struggles to save his town, only to discover the horrific truth of the curse. With that insight, Norman must resolve the crisis for good as only he can.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Charlie and Rachel run away from home to get married in Las Vegas. But they get attacked by a zombie who takes Rachel with him to hell, where she will become one of Satan's brides

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, short
    CountryUSA

    The story centers on two lone survivors of a bizarre accident that reduced most of the world's population to zombies. They take refuge in a vacant casino and fight a losing battle against the undead.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:15

    A psychiatrist is compelled by his patient, an obsessive mathematician, to consider the existence of a secret integer between three and four.

    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, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA

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