Movies like Braindead
If Braindead's mix of infidelity, poison and new zealand stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Braindead's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Re-Animator
1985 · Directed by Stuart Gordon · 86 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: reanimation, zombie · Also comedy and horror
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.
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Bride of Re-Animator
1990 · Directed by Brian Yuzna · 96 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: reanimation · Also horror and comedy · From the same decade (1990s)
Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of…
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Return of the Living Dead Part II
1988 · Directed by Ken Wiederhorn · 89 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: zombie · Also horror and comedy
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
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The Evil Dead
1983 · Directed by Sam Raimi · 85 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: zombie
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.
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Dawn of the Dead
2004 · Directed by Zack Snyder · 101 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: zombie
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
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Grindhouse
2007 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 191 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: zombie
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…
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Planet Terror
2007 · Directed by Robert Rodriguez · 105 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: zombie
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.
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Resident Evil: Extinction
2007 · Directed by Russell Mulcahy · 94 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: zombie
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.