Movies like The Children (1980)
The best movies like The Children (1980) are Night of the Zombies (1980), The Video Dead (1987) and Burial Ground (1981). If The Children 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 ratedZombie Flesh Eaters (1979)6.7/10 from 716 votes
- NewestSpontaneous Combustion (1989)Released 1989
Night of the Zombies (1980)
A rat causes a chemical leak at a Papua New Guinea research facility, leading a group of eco-terrorists to demand the closure of all facilities. When a team of Interpol commandos are enlisted to eliminate the terrorists, they find themselves embroiled in a zombie outbreak.
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 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 thisRevenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987)
A company, not wanting to pay for their chemicals to be dumped properly, put some into a truck of milk, which eventually kills three girls. The girls then return from the dead to seek bloody revenge.
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 thisShivers (1975)
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing captain to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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
Nightmare 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 thisThe Grapes of Death (1978)
A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisChildren Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)
Six actors go to a graveyard on a remote island to act out a necromantic ritual. The ceremony works, and soon the dead are walking about and chowing down on human flesh.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWarning Sign (1985)
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemonwarp (1988)
A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)
When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Butcher M.D. (1980)
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
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 thisIt's Alive (1974)
The Davises are expecting a baby, which turns out to be a monster with a nasty habit of killing people whenever scared. And it's easily scared.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Lives Again (1978)
Maternity wards echo with the patter of tiny claws as more murderous baby-faced monsters are born. But rather than kill their monstrous offspring during delivery, cursed parents flee to secret incubation hideouts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMessiah of Evil (1975)
A young woman searching for her missing artist father finds herself in the strange seaside town of Point Dune, which seems to be under the influence of a mysterious undead cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAttack of the Blind Dead (1973)
Nearly a half-millenium after they were blinded and executed for committing human sacrifices, a band of Templar knights returns from the grave to terrorize a rural Portuguese village during its centennial celebration. A small group of people take refuge in a deserted cathedral and must find a way to escape from the creatures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKilling Spree (1987)
Newly wed Tom Russo suspects his wife is having sexual encounters with their suburban neighbors, and launches a methodical campaign to murder the lovers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Invaders from Mars (1986)
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrey (1977)
A deadly shape-shifting alien infiltrates a country house occupied by two lesbians, and proceeds to study their behaviour for a sinister purpose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead of Night (1974)
A young soldier who was thought to be killed in Vietnam returns home and exhibits disturbing behavior, much to the confusion of his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Kindred (1987)
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight of the Demon (1980)
An anthropology professor and his students attempt to track down a Bigfoot responsible for a rash of violent murders, only to uncover something even more sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisContamination (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 thisDoomwatch (1972)
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
A young man learns that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before his birth, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Children?
The closest matches to The Children are Night of the Zombies (1980), The Video Dead (1987) and Burial Ground (1981). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Children?
People who watched The Children most often go on to Night of the Zombies (1980), The Video Dead (1987) and Burial Ground (1981).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Children?
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), rated 6.7/10 by 716 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Children?
Spontaneous Combustion (1989) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Children?
Yes: The Video Dead (1987), Shock Waves (1977) and Shivers (1975).
How are movies similar to The Children chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Children, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.