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Movies that feel like Night of the Living Dead (1968)

If you loved Night of the Living Dead, the closest films we have are 28 Weeks Later (2007), Signs (2002) and Seconds (1966). All three share Night of the Living Dead's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and Philo and others, checked against today's data.

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

πŸ… 95% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. George A. Romerodreadunsettlingtensecerebralmelancholy

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If Night of the Living Dead hit the spot, these will too

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28 Weeks Later
2007 Β· dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.8horror Β· thriller Β· science fiction

The same two preoccupations: brothers and sisters, and grief

The difference: 39 years apart, and the 2000s show

Twenty-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 Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

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Signs
2002 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 76%β˜… 6.8thriller Β· science fiction Β· horror

Both land dread and unease at once

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

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Seconds
1966 Β· dir. John Frankenheimer
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.6science fiction Β· thriller Β· horror

Black and white sits at the heart of each

The difference: Missing the melancholy of Night of the Living Dead

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

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Nope
2022 Β· dir. Jordan Peele
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.8horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then ideas

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

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A Quiet Place Part II
2021 Β· dir. John Krasinski
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.2science fiction Β· thriller Β· horror

Both trade on melancholy more than on being horror

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

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The Mist
2007 Β· dir. Frank Darabont
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.1horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Thriller built on dread, twice over

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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The Invisible Man
2020 Β· dir. Leigh Whannell
β˜… 7.1thriller Β· science fiction Β· horror

Unsettling science fiction in both cases

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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Altered States
1980 Β· dir. Ken Russell
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Tense horror, and it commits to that

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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28 Days Later
2002 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.5horror Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Both keep circling back to zombie

Twenty-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 by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

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The Endless
2017 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.5science fiction Β· horror Β· thriller

Brothers and sisters is the engine of both

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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Talk to Me
2023 Β· dir. Michael Philippou
β˜… 7.1horror Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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The Purge
2013 Β· dir. James DeMonaco
πŸ… 41%β˜… 5.8science fiction Β· horror Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: barricade

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

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