Movies Like Dead in the Head
If you liked Dead in the Head, a movie, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Shivers (1975)
★ 6.4/10The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
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Sweetheart (2019)
★ 6.4/10Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn’t take her long to realize she’s completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that…
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We Are Zombies (2024)
★ 5.9/10In a city infested with the LIVING-IMPAIRED aka non-cannibal zombies - three slackers after easy money must fight small-time crooks and an evil megacorporation to save their kidnapped grandma.
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Night of the Animated Dead (2021)
★ 6.1/10An animated retelling of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, in which a group of people in a rural farmhouse struggle to survive the threat of bloodthirsty zombies.
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Messiah of Evil (1975)
★ 6.2/10A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
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Patients of a Saint (2020)
★ 6.3/10There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.
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Night of the Living Dead (1990)
★ 6.9/10A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
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Braindead (1992)
★ 7.4/10When 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.
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Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10And 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.
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
★ 7.1/10A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
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Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)
★ 6.1/10Barry is a talented mechanic and family man whose life is torn apart on the eve of a zombie apocalypse. His sister, Brooke, is kidnapped by a sinister team of gas-mask wearing soldiers and experimented on by a…
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Little Monsters (2019)
★ 6.5/10A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
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Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…
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The Battery (2012)
★ 6.1/10In 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…
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Wonder Woman (2017)
★ 7.2/10An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.5/10Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he…
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Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020)
★ 6/10When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent creatures, and swiftly multiplying Shriekers!
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Dust Bunny (2025)
★ 6.7/10Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster under her bed that she claims ate her family. To protect her, he must battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting that some monsters are real.
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The Driver (2019)
★ 6.1/10After a plague of the undead decimates human life on Earth, a former hit man (Mark Dacascos), his wife, and daughter live quietly in a survivalist compound. But when their base is attacked, a massive explosion summons…
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Island of Lost Souls (1932)
★ 6.9/10An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.