Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 18, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Darkest Day

If you loved Darkest Day, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

🏆

Expert Review & Ratings

See our full critical analysis and audience score for Darkest Day.

View Review →
Advertisement
#1
Die Alone

Die Alone

2024★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Darkest Day for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His jou...

#2
Messiah of Evil

Messiah of Evil

1975★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Darkest Day for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

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....

#3
Dead Driver

Dead Driver

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Darkest Day for fans of Action & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After a plague of the undead decimates human life on Earth, a former hit man (Mark Dacascos), his wife, and daughter live quietly in a survivalist compound. But when their base is ...

#4
Open Grave

Open Grave

2013★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Darkest Day for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A man awakes -- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer....

#5
Resident Evil: Apocalypse

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

2004★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Darkest Day for fans of Action & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies. She then joi...

#6
Planet Terror

Planet Terror

2007★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Darkest Day for fans of Action & Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

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 invalid...

Advertisement