Movies like Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008)
The best movies like Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008) are The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022), DeadHeads (2011) and Life After Beth (2014). If Otto; or, Up with Dead People hooked you with its drama and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBraindead (1992)7.4/10 from 1,963 votes
- NewestHandling the Undead (2024)Released 2024
The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022)
After losing his mother, a lonely boy decides to (literally) dig up some new friends, but when they mysteriously come back to life, he’s launched into a series of misadventures as he tries to keep their secret safe from neighbors, classmates and social workers alike.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeadHeads (2011)
Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack and decide to take a road trip to find the one's lost love, unaware they are being chased by the agents of a ruthless company with its own agenda.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLife After Beth (2014)
Zach is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth. When she mysteriously returns, he gets a second chance at love. Soon his whole world turns upside down...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisApril Apocalypse (2013)
Artie is pure bred trailer trash. He has zero ambition, is everyone's favorite punching back at school and bears the burden of his virginity in silence. And then April moves out of the state. She's his best friend and support since kindergarten and the love of his life. Three years later Artie finally has the courage to take to the road and go see April to tell her how he feels about her. One car-crash later Artie wakes up in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. But this time he's not going to hide. Artie's love for April doesn't give him wings, but does give him the courage to hack, slash, punch and kick himself a part towards the girl he loves. Time is of the essence, because that bite on his hand will make the difference between a French kiss and a bite out of April's brains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Little Bit Zombie (2012)
Infected by a virus, a mild mannered HR manager attempts to fulfill his overwhelming desire for brains, all while trying to keep it together so as not to incur the wrath of his bridezilla-to-be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBite Me If You Love Me (2011)
A girl obsessed with zombies kills her boyfriend and turns him into a... you guessed it! Then a fat Japanese Jason Vorhees shows up and a love triangle ensues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Me 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 comedy & horror
I 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 comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOne Cut of the Dead Spin-Off: In Hollywood (2019)
Cast and crew reunite to film a spin-off, this time set in Hollywood, boasting more zealous zombies and beefed up with international characters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
The Returned (2013)
In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead Snow (2009)
Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZombi Child (2019)
Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends, never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoy Eats Girl (2005)
A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBraindead (1992)
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHandling the Undead (2024)
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMiss ZOMBIE (2013)
A doctor and his family receive an unexpected delivery from an old friend at their remote country home - a large wooden crate containing a gun, a female zombie and an instruction sheet telling them not to feed her meat. The family is concerned, of course, but she seems harmless enough. Perhaps she can help clean up outside?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFido (2006)
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "Fido" will rip your heart out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJuan of the Dead (2011)
While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United States. Panic seizes all until Juan comes to the rescue: he discovers he can kill the undead destroying his brain, and decides to start a small business under the slogan "We kill your loved ones."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMad Ron's Prevues from Hell (1987)
Deranged projectionist Mad Ron shows a movie theater full of rowdy zombies a diverse assortment of horror and exploitation film trailers from his private collection while ventriloquist Nick Pawlow and his foul-mouthed zombie dummy Happy Goldsplatt provide lowbrow comic relief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Eat Brains Love (2019)
When Jake and his dream girl, Amanda, contract a mysterious zombie virus, they end up on the run from Cass, a teen psychic sent by the government's top-secret Necrotic Control Division to track them down as they search for a cure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Burying the Ex (2014)
Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dark (2018)
A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Two 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPoultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
When the American Chicken Bunker, a military-themed fast-food restaurant, builds its latest chain restaurant on the site of an ancient Native American burial ground, the displaced spirits take revenge on unsuspecting diners and transform them into chicken zombies! Now, it’s up to a dimwitted counter boy, his collegiate lesbian ex-girlfriend, and a burqa-wearing fry cook to put an end to the foul-feathered menace once and for all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoghouse (2009)
A 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Sell the Dead (2008)
18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got started in the grim corpse peddling business with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisScared Stiff (1953)
A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBerlin Syndrome (2017)
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Battery (2012)
In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHallam Foe (2007)
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Otto; or, Up with Dead People?
The closest matches to Otto; or, Up with Dead People are The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022), DeadHeads (2011) and Life After Beth (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Otto; or, Up with Dead People?
People who watched Otto; or, Up with Dead People most often go on to The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022), DeadHeads (2011) and Life After Beth (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Otto; or, Up with Dead People?
Braindead (1992), rated 7.4/10 by 1,963 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Otto; or, Up with Dead People?
Handling the Undead (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Otto; or, Up with Dead People?
Yes: The Loneliest Boy in the World (2022), DeadHeads (2011) and Life After Beth (2014).
How are movies similar to Otto; or, Up with Dead People chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Otto; or, Up with Dead People, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.