Movies like Demonwarp (1988)
The best movies like Demonwarp (1988) are The Children (1980), The Video Dead (1987) and Without Warning (1980). If Demonwarp hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Evil Dead (1983)7.3/10 from 4,813 votes
- NewestAlien: Romulus (2024)Released 2024
The Children (1980)
A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Video Dead (1987)
On a quiet, tree-lined street, an old television set receives a single channel that repeats the same horror film over and over, freeing zombies from the grave to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWithout Warning (1980)
When a mountain town is besieged by aliens, stranded teens Sandy and Greg team up with a local hunter as a paranoid war vet becomes convinced they're the enemy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisNightmare City (1980)
A reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from the hordes of bloodthirsty, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity as military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless attacks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBurial Ground (1981)
A cursed country estate is besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans, and the unusual relationship between a mother and her young son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisRetribution (1987)
After a depressed artist miraculously survives a suicide attempt, a series of horrific murders leads him to realize he may have been possessed by the vengeful spirit of a murdered gangster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Shock Waves (1977)
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Stuff (1985)
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Shadows (1984)
When brothers Josh and Mike go to a small southern town for a vacation, they find most of the residents either dead or missing. Mike soon disappears as well, leaving Josh to team up with the local sheriff and school teacher to find him in a town that’s hiding a dark, twisted secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCurse of the Blue Lights (1988)
A group of teenagers battle a horde of zombies and evil creatures that live underneath a graveyard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Contamination (1980)
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe House by the Cemetery (1981)
After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his studies and moves his family into the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil Dead (1983)
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisC.H.U.D. (1984)
A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisPulse (1988)
An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy and his divorced father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisNightmare (1981)
A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares is released from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOgroff (1983)
Ogroff, an AWOL-solider-turned-hermit, lives in the French backwoods, and, still believing war to be raging, slaughters anyone who enters them. One day, a family's car breaks down in Ogroff's domain and a fight for their lives begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Re-Animator (1985)
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMadman (1981)
Madman Marz, an old folklore legend who murdered his family before escaping into the woods, is inadvertently summoned to a campsite to finish the spree he started decades ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMortuary (1982)
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPhantasm (1979)
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Final Terror (1983)
A group of friends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Curse (1987)
Nathan Hayes is a religious man trying to hold onto his farm and keep his family in line. A real estate developer is trying to buy most of the farm property in the area, including Mr. Hayes’ family farm, in the hope that the Tennesse Valley Authority will choose the town for the site of a new dam and recreational area. The night of a terrible storm, an unidentified, glowing object crashes on the Hayes farm and with it comes a horrible curse for the family and other members of the community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Deadly Spawn (1983)
When a meteorite touches down in the New Jersey woods carrying a monstrous alien slug, it’s up to four teens to stop it before its terrifying brood consumes all life on Earth!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisEvent Horizon (1997)
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlien: Romulus (2024)
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisArcadian (2024)
In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtinction (2015)
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thing (2011)
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Demonwarp?
The closest matches to Demonwarp are The Children (1980), The Video Dead (1987) and Without Warning (1980). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Demonwarp?
People who watched Demonwarp most often go on to The Children (1980), The Video Dead (1987) and Without Warning (1980).
What is the highest-rated movie like Demonwarp?
The Evil Dead (1983), rated 7.3/10 by 4,813 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Demonwarp?
Alien: Romulus (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Demonwarp?
Yes: The Children (1980), The Video Dead (1987) and Without Warning (1980).
How are movies similar to Demonwarp chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Demonwarp, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.