Movies Like The Dark (2018)

The Dark is a 2018 drama, fantasy, horror film from Justin P. Lange with a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Messiah of Evil and Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse.

Drama Fantasy Horror

Messiah 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.

6.2

MagicScore

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

2015

Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

6.6

MagicScore

Burying the Ex

2014

Before horror enthusiast Max can break things off with his girlfriend Evelyn she dies in a bus accident. In time, Max meets another woman only to have Evelyn resurface as a zombie ready to resume their relationship.

5.5

MagicScore

[REC]³ Genesis

2012

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

5.3

MagicScore

School-Live!

2019

Ebisuzawa Kurumi, Takeya Yuki, Wakasa Yuri, and Naoki Miki all attend the same high school. They also live on campus at the school. The girls enjoy their time at the school until students become infected by a virus and turn into zombies. The girls are surrounded by student zombies and they struggle desperately to survive.

7.3

MagicScore

Army of Darkness

1992

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

7.3

MagicScore

Make-Out with Violence

2008

A genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy's mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the un-dead Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.

4.4

MagicScore

Breakdown Lane

2017

When Kirby Lane's SUV breaks down in the middle of the desert, she must overcome the dehydration, coyotes, and lurking undead to find her way home.

3.6

MagicScore

Mud

2013

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

7.1

MagicScore

#10

The Return of the Living Dead

1985

When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.

7.2

MagicScore

#11

The Beyond

1981

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

6.9

MagicScore

#12

Cemetery Man

1994

Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.

6.9

MagicScore

#13

Night of the Creeps

1986

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

6.7

MagicScore

#14

Return of the Living Dead III

1993

Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught teenager performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.

6.6

MagicScore

#15

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.

6.4

MagicScore

#16

Return of the Living Dead Part II

1988

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.

6.4

MagicScore

#17

Inmate Zero

2020

There's a zombie outbreak after a medical trial in an international detention and medical facility on an isolated island. An ex US Special Forces/bodyguard woman inmate and a guard form a team.

6.4

MagicScore

#18

Cemetery of Terror

1985

On Halloween night, a group of bored teens decide to steal a corpse from the local morgue and take it to a nearby cemetery where they perform a Satanic ritual, unwittingly reviving a bloodthirsty serial killer.

6.2

MagicScore

#19

Dead Heat

1988

Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical company's secret re-animation technology. Now he has twelve hours to solve the case of his own death before he dies: And stays dead.

6.2

MagicScore

#20

We Bury the Dead

2026

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

6.1

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Dark?

The top films similar to The Dark by MovieMagicScore are Messiah of Evil (6.2), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (6.6), Burying the Ex (5.5). Each shares drama/fantasy/horror themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Dark worth watching?

The Dark holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.1/10 from 211 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Dark?

The Dark (2018) is a drama, fantasy, horror film directed by Justin P. Lange, starring Nadia Alexander, Toby Nichols, Karl Markovics.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Dark?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Dark

This ranked list pairs The Dark (2018), a drama and fantasy and horror film from Justin P. Lange, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Nadia Alexander take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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