20 best movies like Night of the Comet (1984)

List of the best movies like Night of the Comet (1984): Beyond Re-Animator, Man's Best Friend, Cell, Cooties, Extinction, Day of the Dead: Bloodline, Daylight's End, Detention of the Dead, Maximum Overdrive, Ice Spiders.

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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: 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: 4.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

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: 5.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountrySpain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration01:53

And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
CountryUSA
Duration03:58

Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

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: 5.4
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: 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.

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: 5.9
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: 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, 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: 6.7
Genrehorror, action, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:23

Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.

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: 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: 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: 3.5
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: 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: 4.8
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:18

      College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

        A new drug promises out-of-body experiences, but users are coming back changed forever, and an otherworldly invasion of Earth is underway.

        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: 3.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
        CountryUSA

        When a mad scientist mixes the genes of a killer whale and a wolf, it creates the Whalewolf, and it's up to Sharktopus to stop it.

        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: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

        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: 4.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic
        CountryUSA

        It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island somewhere in the Caribbean. On the island, they find a new community struggling to hold out against an army of corpses. They can join this band of survivors-- but only if they can do what must be done for the good of the group.

        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: 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: 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: 7
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:56

            Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

            Markimdb: 4.1
            Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:34

            In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie Strippers" the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new "fad" even if it means there's no turning back.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic.

            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, 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: 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: 3.3
            Genrehorror, comedy
            CountryUSA

            Fleeing the wrath of man-eating vixens who've taken over the world, a ragtag caravan of refugees makes its way across the country to the relative safety of the West Coast. But en route, they're attacked by unrelenting waves of starving strippers. If looks could kill ... well, let's just hope they can't.

            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: 6.6
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, military
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:45

            France, June 1944. On the eve of D-Day, some American paratroopers fall behind enemy lines after their aircraft crashes while on a mission to destroy a radio tower in a small village near the beaches of Normandy. After reaching their target, the surviving paratroopers realise that, in addition to fighting the Nazi troops that patrol the village, they also must fight against something else.

            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: 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, 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: 6.6
            Genrehorror, fantastic
            CountryUSA

            When a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you take your life. Facing the unknown, Malorie finds love, hope and a new beginning only for it to unravel. Now she must flee with her two children down a treacherous river to the one place left that may offer sanctuary. But to survive, they'll have to undertake the perilous two-day journey blindfolded.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
            CountryUSA, Germany, France, Canada, South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, China
            Duration02:28

            Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

            Markimdb: 3.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:26

            When an American oil company sets up an experimental drilling plant out in the vast deserts of Mongolia, they awaken a nest. The deadly creatures begin to breed and spread, devouring everyone in their path. The only person who can stop them is treasure hunter and adventure seeker who spent his life searching for a legendary tomb, fabled to be protected by the Death Worms. He knows he must do what he can to kill the creatures, but stopping these monsters may mean destroying his life's work forever!

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:22

            Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space and terrorize a small town.

            Markimdb: 2.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:32

            When a science experiment goes horribly wrong, gigantic fish gain appetites for human flesh.

            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: 2.8
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
            CountryUSA, Bulgaria

            After an overly ambitious businessman transports an 80-foot python to the United States, the beast escapes and starts to leave behind a trail of human victims. An FBI agent and a snake specialist come up with a plot to combat the creature by pitting it against a bioengineered, 70-foot boa constrictor. It's two great snakes that snake great together!




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