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.

The Holy Boy
#1

The Holy Boy

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

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

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
#2

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.

Lola's Secret
#3

Lola's Secret

Young man has his dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she also has a secret that leads to trouble.

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

World War Z
#4

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 Years Later
#5

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.

Cannibal Holocaust
#6

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.

28 Days Later
#7

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.

We Bury the Dead
#8

We Bury the Dead

After a catastrophic military disaster reanimates the dead, Ava searches for her missing husband amidst an increasingly hostile world.

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

White Cannibal Queen
#9

White Cannibal Queen

A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.

💡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.

28 Weeks Later
#11

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.

Black Velvet
#12

Black Velvet

Crystal, a wealthy, scorned woman living in a massive Egyptian palace with her daughter Magda, finds commiseration in a dried-up Hollywood expat who surrounds himself with singing children.

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

Dawn of the Dead
#13

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.

Stage Fright
#14

Stage Fright

While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.

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

Africa Blood and Guts
#15

Africa Blood and Guts

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only political; there is also extensive footage of hunters and poachers slaughtering different types of wild animals.

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