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Movies that feel like The Dead Don't Die (2019)

If you loved The Dead Don't Die, the closest films we have are Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2 (2021), Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020) and Zombieland: Double Tap (2019). All three share The Dead Don't Die's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted by the undead.

🍅 55% Rotten Tomatoes5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jim Jarmuschwittyplayfulcontemplativedreadunsettling
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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2
2021 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
3.8horror · thriller · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: police officer

The difference: None of the stillness The Dead Don't Die is built on

When something horrible happens to the only survivor of a bloody massacre, an insecure rookie cop must overcome his fears to stop further carnage.

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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
2020 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%4.9comedy · horror

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Dead Don't Die

Addicted to technology, a group of teens attends a rehabilitation camp in the forest, but a sinister force there intends to take them offline forever.

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Zombieland: Double Tap
2019 · dir. Ruben Fleischer
🍅 68%6.7horror · comedy

One thread runs through both: zombie

Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move to the American heartland as they face off against evolved zombies, fellow survivors, and the growing pains of the snarky makeshift family.

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What We Do in the Shadows
2014 · dir. Jemaine Clement
🍅 96%7.6comedy · horror

Common ground: zombie

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Vampire 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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Anna and the Apocalypse
2018 · dir. John McPhail
🍅 77%6.1horror · comedy · fantasy

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than The Dead Don't Die does

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven—at Christmas—forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival. In a desperate race to reach their loved ones, they soon learn that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

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The Babysitter
2017 · dir. McG
6.4comedy · horror

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.

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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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Jennifer's Body
2009 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 47%5.6horror · comedy

Drama with a pulse of play, in both cases

Jennifer, a gorgeous, seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Both lean on unease more than on horror

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Ready or Not
2019 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 89%6.9horror · comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.

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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
5.4comedy · fantasy · family

Playful drama, and it commits to that

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

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Better Watch Out
2017 · dir. Chris Peckover
🍅 89%6.5horror · thriller · comedy

Both lean on dread more than on comedy

On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.

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