Movies Like Welcome to Essex

If you liked Welcome to Essex (2018), a movie directed by Ryan J. Fleming, 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.

1
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)
★ 6.1/10
Barry 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…
2
Silent Zone (2025)
★ 6/10
In a zombie-ravaged world, a resourceful teen and her protector fight for survival, facing relentless dangers and testing the limits of hope and loyalty.
3
The Battery (2012)
★ 6.1/10
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…
4
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
★ 6.9/10
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
5
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
★ 6.4/10
As 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…
6
The Driver (2019)
★ 6.1/10
After 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…
7
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
★ 6.6/10
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save…
8
Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10
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.
9
Deadsight (2018)
★ 6/10
A man with partial blindness and a young pregnant police officer must work together to escape a deadly virus that has spread across Grey County.
10
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
★ 7.1/10
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
11
Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.5/10
Lost 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…
12
Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10
When 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…
13
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)
★ 7.2/10
Two star-crossed freshmen – a zombie, Zed and a cheerleader, Addison – each outsiders in their unique ways, befriend each other and work together to show their high school and the Seabrook community what they can…
14
Re-Kill (2015)
★ 5.9/10
Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead. When they see signs of a second outbreak, they fear humanity may not survive.
15
Patients of a Saint (2020)
★ 6.3/10
There'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.
16
We Bury the Dead (2026)
★ 6.1/10
After a catastrophic military disaster reanimates the dead, Ava searches for her missing husband amidst an increasingly hostile world.
17
Bird Box (2018)
★ 6.8/10
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
18
World War Z (2013)
★ 6.9/10
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…
19
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
★ 7.1/10
Dr. 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.
20
Resident Evil (2026)
★ 7.5/10
Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.