Movies like Diary of the Dead (2007)
The best movies like Diary of the Dead (2007) are The Bay (2012), Quarantine (2008) and Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011). If Diary of the Dead hooked you with its horror and fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest rated[REC] (2007)7.2/10 from 5,114 votes
- NewestFestival of the Living Dead (2024)Released 2024
The Bay (2012)
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisQuarantine (2008)
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisQuarantine 2: Terminal (2011)
A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands it is placed under quarantine. Now a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this[REC] (2007)
A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRe-Kill (2015)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like this[REC]² (2009)
The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Killing Strain (2010)
A man-made virus, 'The Killing Strain'-- an out-of-control swine flu-- turns infected humans into raging monsters. As it rapidly spreads, a group of uninfected survivors must make life-or-death decisions before the U.S. military firebombs the area in a desperate attempt contain the contagion. The survivors are unaware that the virus has already reached their group-- by infecting one of them-- and now the merciless metamorphic process has begun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
[REC]³ Genesis (2012)
A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFlight of the Living Dead (2007)
On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDay of the Dead (2008)
When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight of the Living Dead (1990)
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFestival of the Living Dead (2024)
While attending a festival to commemorate the original zombie attack, Ash and her friends encounter the living dead and must fight back or be devoured.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
American Zombie (2007)
Documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Collapse (2012)
The normal worries of a struggling small town farmer are blown away when the world is suddenly overrun by undead monsters. How can a good man protect and provide for his family in a hostile world without becoming a monster himself?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Zombies (2016)
When the world is in shambles, plagued by a zombie outbreak, only the strong will survive, but just how much determination will it take? Will Luke and his crew have enough ambition and ammunition to stay alive long enough to save the human race?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMe and My Mates vs. The Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Three Australian telecom tradesman find themselves trapped in a telephone exchange during the onset of a zombie apocalypse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Afflicted (2014)
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChernobyl Diaries (2012)
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHaunted Hospital: Heilstatten (2018)
Group of Youtubers enter an abandoned surgery ward for 24-hour challenge, hoping to go viral. They will soon learn that they're not welcome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like this[REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014)
Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Survived a Zombie Holocaust (2014)
From the land of early Peter Jackson comes another Braindead movie in bad taste. It’s the third day of shooting the low budget horror ‘Tonight They Come’ on location in the wilds of New Zealand. Director SMP is already beside himself having to work with a self-obsessed leading man and a bimbo actress when into his line of fire comes a new runner, wannabe screenwriter Wesley Pennington. Clearly an accident-prone nerd, Wesley nevertheless tries his best to fit in with the crazed cast and demented crew while falling head over heels for Susan, the set caterer. But something nasty has entered the local water supply and suddenly the zombie extras start acting like genuine members of the living dead, gore stunts looks even more authentic and actual severed limbs fly. Reel life turns real as Wesley attempts to save the day while ensuring his latest script will get made.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSanatorium (2013)
On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they may just get their answer the hard way when members of the team mysteriously disappear, leaving behind unnerving evidence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisExit Humanity (2011)
A decade after the American Civil War, Edward Young returns home from a hunting trip to find a horrific reanimation of his wife and that their son Adam has disappeared. He must battle his way through an unexplainable outbreak of the walking dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLand of the Dead (2005)
The 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPontypool (2009)
When disc jockey Grant Mazzy reports to his basement radio station in the Canadian town of Pontypool, he thinks it's just another day at work. But when he hears reports of a virus that turns people into zombies, Mazzy barricades himself in the radio booth and tries to figure out a way to warn his listeners about the virus and its unlikely mode of transmission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dead (2010)
When the last evacuation flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast, American Air Force Engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy emerges as the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Rezort (2015)
The ReZort, a post apocalyptic safari, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill zombies in the wake of an outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
An ineffective vaccine fails to stop an epidemic which is turning people into zombies. The survivors organize themselves to escape from the living dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisState of Emergency (2012)
Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dead 2: India (2013)
An infectious epidemic spreads through India as an American turbine engineer learns that his pregnant girlfriend is trapped near the slums of Mumbai. Now he must battle his way across a 300mile wasteland of the ravenous undead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like this
![[REC] (2007) poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/hgyJR4sgMsee6xMFM3xYiG6cDCh.jpg)
![[REC]² (2009) poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/n9okN1DnWQWI2fuByXTrv9DCL7u.jpg)
![[REC]³ Genesis (2012) poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tI1534q0Up7PBcLdXdFerLmIXn3.jpg)
![[REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014) poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vbflx4rDj3YrRAAk4HSWsEgZVlK.jpg)
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Diary of the Dead?
The closest matches to Diary of the Dead are The Bay (2012), Quarantine (2008) and Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Diary of the Dead?
People who watched Diary of the Dead most often go on to The Bay (2012), Quarantine (2008) and Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like Diary of the Dead?
[REC] (2007), rated 7.2/10 by 5,114 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Diary of the Dead?
Festival of the Living Dead (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Diary of the Dead?
Yes: The Bay (2012), Quarantine (2008) and Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011).
How are movies similar to Diary of the Dead chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Diary of the Dead, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.