15 Movies Like Cave of the Living Dead
Loved Cave of the Living Dead? 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.
Hokum
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cave of the Living Dead.
Sleepy Hollow
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cave of the Living Dead.
Baghead
Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is signed she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in the pub’s basement – Baghead – a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cave of the Living Dead.
Nosferatu
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cave of the Living Dead.
Angst
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cave of the Living Dead.
Sinister 2
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cave of the Living Dead.
Blood Red Sky
A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cave of the Living Dead.
House of 1000 Corpses
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cave of the Living Dead.
Melancholie der Engel
Upon learning that his days are numbered, a man and an old friend return to an old house that connects them by a dark secret. Along with three women and a mysterious old man, the group journeys into a horrifying abyss of debauchery and moral mayhem, leading to a fatal turn of events, during which the darkest human depths are revealed.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cave of the Living Dead.
Nosferatu the Vampyre
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cave of the Living Dead.
Funny Games
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cave of the Living Dead.
The Night Stalker
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cave of the Living Dead.
Fear Street: 1666
In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cave of the Living Dead.
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor
A group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is discovered on their footage is even more disturbing than anything found on the Hell House tapes.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Cave of the Living Dead.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Cave of the Living Dead.