Movies like Helldriver
If Helldriver hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Wild Zero (1999)
Only legendary Japanese garage rock band Guitar Wolf can stand between a race of aliens from destroying Earth with an army of zombies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisJunk (2000)
Four crooks rob a jewelery shop, then head for an abandoned factory where they plan to fence the goods to the Yakuza. Unfortunately, their chosen location happens to be the same place where American scientists had previously experimented on resurrecting the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay (1991)
A meteor lands in Japan and the fallout creates a “shield” around Tokyo, encasing the city in a foggy darkness. A state of martial law is declared. People are in a panic as violent crime and corruption spreads throughout the region and punk gangs are ruling the streets. As if things weren’t bad enough, a chemical reaction from the meteor unleashes a deadly virus and now the dead are coming back to life as flesh-eating zombies!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Meatball Machine (2006)
Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMutant Girls Squad (2010)
Rin a young high school student is your everyday awkward girl who gets bullied by her fellow students. On her 16th birthday, Rin gets an unexpected surprise: she finds out that she is, on her father's side, a half-mutant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTokyo Gore Police (2008)
In a futuristic Tokyo where police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the 'cutter' demographic, Ruka is on a mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose goal is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as 'engineers', that possess the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTokyo Zombie (2005)
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
Tetsuo: 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 thisVersus (2000)
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCasshern (2004)
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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
Zombie Self-Defense Force (2006)
When a UFO crashes and releases radiation, the dead begin to rise in a cannibalistic frenzy. A group of soldiers and civilians make their way to a hotel and must fend off the zombie hordes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies (2001)
Girls surrounding 17 years old are affected by an illness that make her to be 'Stacies': they feel a strange and momentary happiness until they become zombies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisVampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009)
A reconstructed girl is created from the pieces of a vampire girl's mini-butchery. Slaughter abounds as both of them pursue the same boy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisRoboGeisha (2009)
Sisters Yoshie and Kikue are two Geisha who are abducted by a mysterious organization to be transformed into murderous cyborg assassins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMeatball Machine Kodoku (2017)
Nobody knows where they came from. They parasitize in human beings, take control of them and change their bodies into hideous monsters (Necro-borg). The Necro-borg fight each other until the other dies. Where did they come from? To what end? Yuji and Kaoru, whom both have dark secrets within themselves, get caught up in the horrific battles of Necro-borg. What will their fate be?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
The Machine Girl (2008)
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead Sushi (2012)
A disgruntled researcher injects his former employers' meal with a serum that turns their sushi into flesh-eating monsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisParasyte: Part 2 (2015)
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with his young high school student host, and he convinces the parasite to help him stop the others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisManborg (2011)
The evil Count Draculon and his army of demons have conquered Earth, but a young soldier who lost his life in the first war against Hell has reawakened in the future as MANBORG! Together with a crew of post-apocalyptic rebels, the half-man half-machine hero will fight to defeat Draculon and take back the planet!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDawn of the Dead (2004)
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMeatball Machine: Reject of Death (2007)
A young girl with mental illness just wants to die. But the necroborgs have other plans...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Deadman Inferno (2015)
Hiroya Munakata is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi is released from prison, but Takashi’s daughter, Hyuga says she does not want to meet her father and runs away from home. Hiroya, Takashi and Hiroya’s subordinate Shinya go to Zeni Island where Hyuga is headed to. Something they never expected is waiting for them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Bloody Chainsaw Girl (2016)
Giko Nokomura is a delinquent girl and a senior in middle school. She struggles to kill zombies who were her classmates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Gantz (2010)
After trying to rescue a man on the subway tracks, two teens wake up in a room dominated by a mysterious black sphere that sends them to hunt down and kill aliens hiding on Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHellevator: The Bottled Fools (2004)
Luchino's routine morning elevator ride up from her subterranean home on level 138 to her school many stories above turns horrific when the elevator operator is ordered to pick up two passengers from floor 99, the maximum security level. What starts as psychological manipulation soon turns wholly physical as both the cruel convicts and Luchino's own dysfunctional past are unleashed. And then every passenger must fight for his or her survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlien vs. Ninja (2010)
A comet crashes into a Japanese forest and a group of mighty ninjas must fight a group of killer Aliens before they reach their village and kill everyone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeoul Station (2016)
When a zombie virus erupts from Seoul Station, a young woman fights to survive on the streets while her boyfriend and father track her down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMutants (2009)
A nasty virus has spread throughout the human race turning the population into something ...else. After a brief setup (and a messy hit and run) we’re introduced to an ambulance and its four occupants. Sonia and Marco are together and riding with two police officers. Tensions rise between them as they head for a mythical research facility called NOAH that is reportedly infection free and working on a cure, and circumstances lead to Sonia and Marco holing up alone in an abandoned building. She’s pregnant, in love, and apparently immune to the virus… and she realizes that he’s been infected. He slowly transforms but her love for him refuses to give up on a cure, so she sets out to survive the onslaught of infected, attacks from still-human marauders, and the growing threat from her baby’s daddy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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What are the best movies like Helldriver?
The closest matches to Helldriver are Wild Zero, Junk, Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay.
How are movies similar to Helldriver chosen?
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Are there Japanese movies like Helldriver?
Yes: Wild Zero, Junk, Battle Girl: The Living Dead in Tokyo Bay.