Waiting for Resident Evil? These 5 Zombie Movies on Tubi Are Ready to Infect Your Watchlist
Mutated infected, collapsing cities, questionable experiments, and enough survival-horror chaos for Resident Evil fans to make conserving your ammo feel like excellent life advice.
The doors to Raccoon City are about to reopen. The new Resident Evil movie arrives in theaters September 18, with Weapons and Barbarian director Zach Cregger dropping a medical courier into one catastrophically bad night involving the T-virus, an outbreak, and the increasingly important question of exactly how many bullets you have left. In other words, now feels like an excellent time to start mentally checking the inventory for green herbs.
Whether you came to Resident Evil through Alice roundhouse-kicking her way through the movies, Leon Kennedy having another historically terrible day in Raccoon City or the games teaching you that every dark hallway probably contains something with deeply concerning anatomy, the appeal goes well beyond zombies. It's survival horror with action-movie ambition: conspiracies, mutations, desperate escapes, suspicious corporations and ordinary doors suddenly becoming extremely stressful objects. These five zombie movies like Resident Evil on Tubi hit different pieces of that same infected nerve, while the Terror on Tubi hub has plenty more horror movies waiting once the outbreak is contained.
Check your ammo. Save your progress. We're going in.
Dead Rising: Watchtower
If your favorite Resident Evil flavor involves a zombie outbreak, government response, and the creeping suspicion that the people supposedly handling the crisis may not be telling you everything, Dead Rising: Watchtower is ready to clock in.
Based on Capcom's Dead Rising video game series, the movie follows reporter Chase Carter as another outbreak sends a quarantined city into chaos and an attempted government solution begins raising questions of its own. The video-game DNA is happily visible: improvised weapons, swarming infected, increasingly ridiculous ways to stay alive, and a world where finding something useful on the ground immediately feels like inventory management. Resident Evil fans should feel right at home. Different Capcom apocalypse. Same strong argument for leaving town immediately.
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
The outbreak already happened. Now we're going back in. Bold strategy. Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula returns to the zombie-ravaged world of Train to Busan four years after civilization on the Korean peninsula has collapsed. Gang Dong-won's Jung-seok is sent back into the quarantine zone on a mission involving an abandoned truck full of money, only to discover that the infected aren't the only things left inside worth fearing.
Where Train to Busan squeezed its horror into narrow train cars, Peninsula goes bigger: ruined cities, vehicle chases, armed survivors, and full post-apocalyptic zombie action. It's the pick for Resident Evil fans who like when the franchise moves from “survive the outbreak” to “welcome to the completely wrecked world the outbreak left behind”.
The Girl with All the Gifts
Based on M.R. Carey's post-apocalyptic novel, The Girl With All the Gifts centers on Melanie, an extraordinarily intelligent young girl being studied at a military facility after a fungal infection has devastated humanity. Sennia Nanua makes Melanie curious, empathetic, and unsettling in equal measure, while Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, and Paddy Considine surround her with adults who have very different ideas about what she represents.
This is the more thoughtful infected survival-horror movie of the bunch, interested in what happens when “infected” and “monster” stop meaning exactly the same thing. Resident Evil fans accustomed to viruses mutating life into unexpected new forms will recognize the territory, but The Girl With All the Gifts asks a trickier question: what if humanity isn't necessarily the final stage?
Johnny Z
Half human. Half zombie. Already sounds like somebody ignored several very important laboratory warnings. Johnny Z throws martial arts into the zombie apocalypse through Johnny, a human-zombie hybrid whose unusual abilities make him valuable in a world overrun by the infected. Under the guidance of a martial-arts master, he turns those abilities toward fighting back and suddenly our zombie movie has started throwing punches.
Johnny Z isn't interested in making you wait quietly behind a barricade while something scratches at the door. It wants action, combat, mutated biology, and a protagonist who exists somewhere between the humans and the creatures hunting them. If your preferred Resident Evil setting is less survival-horror puzzle and more Chris Redfield punching the problem, queue this one up.
Zombie Fight Club
Eventually every zombie apocalypse asks the same question: How are humans somehow making this even worse? Zombie Fight Club begins inside an apartment building as a zombie outbreak erupts and survival becomes a floor-by-floor nightmare. Then the story pushes beyond the initial collapse into a world where the remaining humans have found increasingly brutal ways to adapt, including turning zombie combat into entertainment.
It's messy, violent, and proudly uninterested in subtlety, making it the pick for anyone who wants their zombie action movie with the gore dial pushed firmly upward. And like plenty of Resident Evil stories, the infected may be horrifying, but give humanity enough time after civilization collapses and somebody will inevitably decide the real apocalypse needs management.