Movies Like 23 Years Later: The Castle of the Dead
If you liked 23 Years Later: The Castle of the Dead, a action and horror movie directed by Uwe Boll, 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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Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and thrillerLost 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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Land of the Dead (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerThe living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.
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The First Purge (2018)
★ 6/10Also action and horrorTo push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of…
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28 Years Later (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thrillerTwenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he…
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Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerTommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.
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Planet Terror (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and actionTwo doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors…
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Grindhouse (2007)
★ 7/10Also thriller and actionGrindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and actionAs the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joins a small band of elite soldiers, who…
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and thrillerDr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.
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The Blob (1988)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thrillerIn Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
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The Purge: Election Year (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also action and horrorSeventeen years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to…
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Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thrillerAnd 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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Forgive Us All (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerIn a post-apocalyptic world, a virus has transformed humans into violently deranged cannibals. A bereaved mother has lost everything and takes refuge in an isolated mountain cabin, until a desperate wounded stranger…
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Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
★ 6/10Also horror and thrillerThe Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition…
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Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and actionWhen 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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Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thrillerTo put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying…
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Halloween Ends (2022)
★ 6/10Also horror and thrillerFour years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of…
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Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerA prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a…
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Daylight's End (2016)
★ 5.8/10Also action and horrorYears 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…
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Jigsaw (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thrillerLaw enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabolical new game that's only just begun.