Best "back from the dead" Movies of All Time

27 movies found (page 1/1):

xXx: Return of Xander Cage(2017)

3.1/5 (with 4,199 votes)

Extreme athlete turned government operative Xander Cage comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with deadly alpha warrior Xiang and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora's Box. Recruiting an all-new group of thrill-seeking cohorts, Xander finds himself enmeshed in a deadly conspiracy that points to collusion at the highest levels of world governments.

Directed by D.J. Caruso - With Vin Diesel, Donnie Yen, Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Jaa, Nina Dobrev, Ruby Rose, ...

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The Crow(1994)

| 1h 42min | Fantasy, Action, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 1,684 votes)

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven—watched over by a hypnotic crow—returns from the grave to exact revenge.

Directed by Alex Proyas - With Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, Bai Ling, David Patrick Kelly, Michael Massee, ...

Braindead(1992)

1h 43min | Horror, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 686 votes)

When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.

Directed by Peter Jackson - With Tim Balme, Elizabeth Moody, Jed Brophy, Harry Sinclair, Peter Jackson, Ian Watkin, ...

The Crow: Salvation(2000)

1h 42min | Action, Thriller, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Horror

2.7/5 (with 137 votes)

Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to avenge the murder of his girlfriend, who he was wrongly accused of killing. But first he must uncover the truth about who really killed her.

Directed by Bharat Nalluri - With Eric Mabius, Kirsten Dunst, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Fred Ward, William Atherton, Tim DeKay, ...

Afterlife of the Party(2021)

1h 49min | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 199 votes)

A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.

Directed by Stephen Herek - With Victoria Justice, Midori Francis, Adam Garcia, Myfanwy Waring

The Spirit(2008)

1h 43min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

2.4/5 (with 417 votes)

Down these mean streets a man must come. A hero born, murdered, and born again. A Rookie cop named Denny Colt returns from the beyond as The Spirit, a hero whose mission is to fight against the bad forces from the shadows of Central City. The Octopus, who kills anyone unfortunate enough to see his face, has other plans; he is going to wipe out the entire city.

Directed by Frank Miller - With Gabriel Macht, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendes, Sarah Paulson, Jaime King, ...

The Crow: Wicked Prayer(2005)

1h 39min | Action, Horror, Thriller, Fantasy

1.8/5 (with 78 votes)

When ex-convict Jimmy and his girlfriend are brutally murdered on a reservation by a local gang of satanists, he's brought back by the Crow to seek vengence.

Directed by Lance Mungia - With Edward Furlong, David Boreanaz, Tara Reid, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Tito Ortiz, Marcus Chong, ...

The Cabbage Soup(1981)

1h 38min | Comedy, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 372 votes)

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Directed by Jean Girault - With Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Claude Gensac, Christine Dejoux, Gaëlle Legrand, ...

Versus(2000)

1h 59min | Action, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 74 votes)

Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.

Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura - With Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Kenji Matsuda

Elvis & Anabelle(2007)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.

Directed by Will Geiger - With Blake Lively, Max Minghella, Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Keith Carradine

Tomie(1998)

1h 35min | Horror, Mystery

2.7/5 (with 28 votes)

Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?

Directed by Ataru Oikawa - With Miho Kanno, Tomorô Taguchi, Mami Nakamura, Yoriko Dōguchi

Indestructible Man(1956)

1h 12min | Crime, Horror, Science Fiction

2.2/5 (with 20 votes)

A scientific experiment involving subjecting a corpse to an extreme charge of electricity accidentally revives an executed criminal and makes him impervious to harm, allowing him to seek revenge on his former partners, and deal similarly with anyone else who gets in his way.

Directed by Jack Pollexfen - With Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott, Stuart Randall, Ken Terrell, ...

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Bride of Boogedy(1987)

1h 30min | Horror, Kids & Family, Comedy, TV Movie

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

In this sequel to the made-for-television Disney family classic, Mr. Boogedy, the Davis family deals with the return of Mr. Boogedy and his never-ending hunt for Widow Marion as well as a rival gag-store competitor who really has it out for Carleton. Meanwhile, the town of Lucifer Falls is planning a big carnival which the mean Mr. Lynch seeks to ruin- if Boogedy doesn't see to that first.

Directed by Oz Scott - With Richard Masur, Mimi Kennedy, Tammy Lauren, David Faustino

The Man They Could Not Hang(1939)

1h 4min | Science Fiction, Horror, Crime

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.

Directed by Nick Grinde - With Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Don Beddoe, Ann Doran, Byron Foulger, James Craig, ...

Tomie: Replay(2000)

1h 35min | Horror

2.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.

Directed by Fujirō Mitsuishi - With Hōshō Mai, Sayaka Yamaguchi, Yōsuke Kubozuka

Dr. Orloff's Monster(1964)

1h 39min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans...

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Agnès Spaak, Jesús Franco, Pastor Serrador, Rafael Hernández, Perla Cristal, Hugo Blanco Galiasso, ...

Super Hot(2021)

1h 21min | Horror, Comedy

2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

A pizza delivery girl discovers her neighbor is moving into a sorority house of vampires. It's a race against the clock to stop her crush from being sacrificed at midnight.

Bowery at Midnight(1942)

1h 1min | Crime, Horror, Action

2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.

Directed by Wallace Fox - With Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Dave O'Brien, J. Farrell MacDonald, Tom Neal, Vince Barnett, ...

Slasher.com(2017)

1h 29min | Horror, Thriller

1.8/5 (with 12 votes)

After meeting online, Jack and Kristy go on a weekend getaway to the woodlands of rural Missouri. While discovering each other, they soon learn of the terrorizing horrors that the forest has in store.

Directed by Chip Gubera - With Jewel Shepard, R. A. Mihailoff

Fear No Evil(1969)

2h | Horror, Thriller, TV Movie

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.

Directed by Paul Wendkos - With Louis Jourdan

Make-Out with Violence(2008)

1h 45min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance / Love

2.3/5 (with 10 votes)

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.

Directed by Andrew Duensing, Deagol Brothers

The Unknown(1964)

1h | TV Movie, Horror, Science Fiction

After two women poison to death the blackmailer who has been tormenting them, they wind up at the house of a blind man whose eccentric guest believes he has built a working time machine. Soon, the blackmailer is back to torment them all.

Ghost Riders(1987)

1h 25min | Horror, Western

1.9/5 (with 3 votes)

An outlaw gang hanged by a posse in the late 1880s comes back from the grave to terrorize the descendants of the posse's leader.

Lola(1914)

50min | Drama

A scientist resurrects his dead daughter, only to realize she now lacks a soul.

Directed by James Young - With Clara Kimball Young, Alec B. Francis, James Young

Super agente Botones(1997)

1h 31min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A secret agent who dies on a mission asks Heaven to let him go back to Earth to complete his mission, and much to his disapproval, he is reincarnated in a bellboy's body.

Kuolema käy kuusi beessä(1993)

55min | Horror, Comedy

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Grandmother returns from the grave to haunt her family.

Directed by Mika J. Ripatti

The Dead Don't Scream(2008)