Movies Like An American Werewolf in London
If you liked An American Werewolf in London (1981), a comedy and horror movie directed by John Landis, 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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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
★ 7.5/10Also horror and comedyShaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to…
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and horrorTwo employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.
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What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and horrorVampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
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Werewolf of London (1935)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorA strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
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28 Days Later (2002)
★ 7.2/10Also horrorTwenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried…
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
★ 7.1/10Also horrorA group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
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Zombieland (2009)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and horrorColumbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now…
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Doghouse (2009)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and horrorA group of men, heading to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce, soon discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals.
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28 Weeks Later (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also horrorTwenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of…
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Planet Terror (2007)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorTwo 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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Night of the Living Dead (1990)
★ 6.9/10Also horrorA 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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Ginger Snaps (2000)
★ 6.9/10Also horrorThe story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously…
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Wrong Turn (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorChris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by…
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Forgive Us All (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorIn 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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Night of the Living Dead (1968)
★ 7.6/10Also horrorA 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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Vampire's Kiss (1989)
★ 6/10Also comedy and horrorA publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.
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The Wolfman (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorLawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorFive friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about…
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Wolf Man (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorWith his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by…
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Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorAfter a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal…