20 best movies like Night of the Zombies (1980)

List of the best movies like Night of the Zombies (1980): Mulberry Street, The Divide, Intruders, [REC]⁴ Apocalypse, Man's Best Friend, Battle of the Damned, Frankenfish, Maximum Overdrive, Arachnid, Black Swarm.

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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, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

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: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, detective
CountrySpain
Duration01:35

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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, adventure
CountryUSA, Singapore
Duration01:28

Following a deadly viral outbreak, private military soldier Max Gatling leads a handful of survivors and a ragtag band of robots against an army of the infected.

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: 5.4
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: 3.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountrySpain, USA, Mexico
Duration01:41

Arachnid is a 2001 film directed by Jack Sholder. In this movie, giant killer spiders menace survivors of a plane crash.

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: 3.1
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: 7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain
Duration01:40

    In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the isles, convinced the danger has come and gone. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA

    In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith who introduce them to the vices outlawed by their tribes namely sex and drugs.Neil and Judith, however, are genetically altered indestructible mutants who have their own plans for the future of the human race.

    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: 4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:26

    Months after a zombie plague has wiped out 90 percent of the American population, a small group of survivors fight their way cross-country to a rumored refuge on the island of Catalina.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryUSA

    Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heros are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.

    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, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

    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: 3.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountrySpain, United Kingdom

    Dante travels across a desolate, futuristic Spain in search of his girlfriend, Ula. He is pursued by a bloodthirsty, cybernetic Rottweiler.

    Markimdb: 3.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryCanada

    The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter Fletcher) and temperamental mechanic Carl (Dickon Tolson) lead a small group of survivors into the country in hopes of riding out the coming winter. But now the decaying victims of the plague are reanimating, growing more smart and vicious with each passing day. Now, the only hope for the survival of the human race is Phillip (Carradine), a man who refused to leave the city, and has somehow avoided becoming food for the flesh-eating masses.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA

    Video game developer Clayton Software enlists the talents of a misfit group of programmers to develop the scariest computer combat game: EVILUTION. With four weeks to bring the game to market and a million-dollar bonus on the line, they utilize a telemetry suit to render a 3-D version of the onscreen player. But when a power surge gives the hard drive a mind of its own, the suit comes to life to play the game for real and the programming team find themselves in the middle of a chilling virtual nightmare beyond their wildest imagination.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    In the near future, a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren is a doctor who, after the fall of New York, arrives in Los Angeles to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors. But nothing can prepare her crack team for the blood-soaked mayhem they are about to witness as they head into the Californian mean streets where everything is considered a trap… From director John (THE SCRIBBLER) Suits, a boundary-crashing, game-changing science fiction thriller featuring non-stop action from a first person shooter perspective, putting the audience in the middle of every fight whilst feeling in control of every punch thrown and shot fired. Welcome to the new model of immersive action thriller for the hardcore video game generation.

    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: 5.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:35

    A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the 13th Part 2 & 3 and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later) and written by Jeffrey Reddick.

    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: 4.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA—with horrific results.

    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: 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: 5.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA

      Logan Burnhardt is the ego-king of the airwaves, but his unflappable persona is put to the test when a terrorist bio-attack unleashes a plague of flesh-ripping maniacs on Los Angeles.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA, Morocco
      Duration01:30

      In the supernatural thriller The Objective, writer-director Daniel Myrick locates the action in a remote mountain region on Afghanistan, where a team of US Special Ops forces is dispatched with the ostensible orders of locating an influential Muslim cleric. While on the mission they find themselves lost in a Middle Eastern 'Bermuda Triangle' of ancient evil and faced with an enemy that none of them could have imagined.

      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: 5.9
      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: 1.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
      CountryChina
      Duration01:55

      A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action
      CountryIsrael

      The movie is a post-apocalyptic horror/science fiction film. the setting is in a near post apocalyptic future where a biological warfare program goes wrong, and turns most of humanity to mindless, murderous creatures.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic
      CountryTaiwan
      Duration01:28

      A virus gets loose in Taipei Army and SWAT teams oversee evacuation but in Ximending the gangs don't want the police They attack the military but when both find themselves under attack by zombies there is an alliance as they try and escape.

      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: 4.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Canada, Germany
      Duration01:33

      A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two of the deadliest extra-terrestrial life forms - the Alien and the Predator. When a Predator scout ship crash-lands in the hills outside the town, Alien Facehuggers and a hybrid Alien/Predator are released and begin to terrorize the town.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA, Japan
      Duration01:36

      In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

        Melanie Ballard (Natasha Henstridge) is a hard nosed police chief in the year 2025. She and a police snatch squad are sent to Mars to apprehend a dangerous criminal James Williams (Ice Cube). Mars has been occupied by humans for some time and they have set up mining facilities. The mining activities on Mars have unleashed the spirits of alien beings who gradually possess the bodies of the workers. It soon turns out that catching the dangerous fugitive takes a back seat as the alien spirits begin to rid their planet of the 'invaders'.

        Markimdb: 2.3
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action
        CountryUSA

        A female doctor struggling to find her daughter after a long lost World War II biological weapon explodes on a U.S. military base in Bulgaria, turning people into mutant zombies.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        In a post-apocalyptic world, a small group of survivors, who call themselves Foragers, plan to rebuild civilization from their headquarters in an empty hospital based in what is left of Philadelphia. But they're soon forced into a face-off war with the Rovers, another gang of survivors whom are a brutal gang of cannibals.

        Markimdb: 3.1
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryThailand

        Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon become witness to the carnage inflicted by the strange and remote species.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryFrance

        A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine.

        Markimdb: 2.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

        A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.




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