Movies like Days of Darkness (2007)
The best movies like Days of Darkness (2007) are Dead and Deader (2006), Flight of the Living Dead (2007) and Zombies (2016). If Days of Darkness hooked you with its action and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWorld War Z (2013)6.9/10 from 17,297 votes
- NewestMonster Hunters (2020)Released 2020
Dead and Deader (2006)
Lt. Bobby Quinn is a Special Forces commando killed during a recon mission in the Cambodian jungle. But when Quinn interrupts his own stateside autopsy, he discovers that the rest of his dead squad has been resurrected with a ravenous apetite for human flesh. Now with the help of a wisecracking cook and a sexy film geek, the part-zombie Quinn must stop the plague before it can infect the entire nation. Who holds the shocking secret behind this blood-crazed carnage? And what happens when Quinn stops gnawing on raw steak and starts chomping on the hot chick?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
Flight 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 thisZombies (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 & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisCollapse (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
The 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
Undead (2003)
A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn (2015)
A group of survivors trapped in a New York apartment fight to stay alive against legions of zombies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
Before Dawn (2013)
An estranged couple's vacation to save their troubled relationship goes awry when they find themselves under attack from the walking dead
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Exit 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 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 action & 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 thisPlanet Terror (2007)
Two 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, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead Rising: Endgame (2016)
Investigative reporter Chase Carter must stop a secret government conspiracy in the zombie infested quarantine zone of East Mission City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDiary of the Dead (2007)
A group of young filmmakers encounter real zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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 thisMulberry Street (2006)
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMaggie (2015)
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisResident Evil: Retribution (2012)
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisResident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisResident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisResident Evil (2002)
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 the outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cured (2018)
What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisResident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
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 are enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. Once lack of luck and resources happen, they begin to wage an exhilarating battle to survive and escape before the Umbrella Corporation erases its experiment from the face of the earth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaylight's End (2016)
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMonster Hunters (2020)
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWorld War Z (2013)
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 barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLifeforce (1985)
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Days of Darkness?
The closest matches to Days of Darkness are Dead and Deader (2006), Flight of the Living Dead (2007) and Zombies (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Days of Darkness?
People who watched Days of Darkness most often go on to Dead and Deader (2006), Flight of the Living Dead (2007) and Zombies (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Days of Darkness?
World War Z (2013), rated 6.9/10 by 17,297 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Days of Darkness?
Monster Hunters (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Days of Darkness?
Yes: Dead and Deader (2006), Flight of the Living Dead (2007) and Collapse (2012).
How are movies similar to Days of Darkness chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Days of Darkness, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.