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15 Movies Like Nightmare City

Loved Nightmare City? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
#1

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

28 Years Later
#2

28 Years Later

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

World War Z
#3

World War Z

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

28 Days Later
#4

28 Days Later

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

Lola's Secret
#5

Lola's Secret

A young man's dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she has a secret that leads to trouble.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Nightmare City.

Dawn of the Dead
#6

Dawn of the Dead

A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

Worldbreaker
#7

Worldbreaker

Five years ago, a tear in the fabric of reality brought creatures to our world from an alternate dimension bent on our destruction. A father hides his daughter on an island to keep her safe while he prepares her for survival and the battles to come. But when the world is about to break, no place is safe.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

28 Weeks Later
#8

28 Weeks Later

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

Cannibal Holocaust
#9

Cannibal Holocaust

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Nightmare City.

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
#10

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

Land of the Dead
#11

Land of the Dead

The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

Dawn of the Dead
#12

Dawn of the Dead

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

Resident Evil
#13

Resident Evil

When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

Planet Terror
#14

Planet Terror

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. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmare City.

Suspiria
#15

Suspiria

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Nightmare City.