[Top 15] Best Movies Like Attack the Block

Updated:

26 Jun 2020

Even when the world seems bleak, these friends know how to pull together.

When the world is at its end, who will you recruit to help you fight the invaders? Attack the Block is a clever movie about inner-city kids saving their hometown. Grab your buddies and brush up on the bizarre. Below are 15 films about friends coming together to stop otherworldly forces from taking over the world.

15. The Monster Squad (1987)

The Monster Squad - Trailer

Sometimes, it takes a kid to do a grown-up job since none of the adults believe genuine monsters are in the closet. A portal opens, thinning the line between our world and another. No worries, the monsters experts are at your service.

Infatuated with monsters, they didn’t realize their summer would be comprised of fighting them off.

14. The Lost Boys

The Lost Boys (1987) Official Trailer

Michael just wants to have a good time and make a few friends. Instead, he finds out vampires are lurking in California. It’s now up to his little brother, and their newfound amateur vampire-slaying friends, to save Michael from being killed, or worse, complete his transformation to become a bloodthirsty vampire.

Lost Boys won a Saturn Award for best horror film.

13. Grabbers

Grabbers Official Trailer (2012) HD

Who knew drinking would fend off an alien invasion? Two local heroes must find a way to kill the aliens before the town's inebriated state wears off. With the help of a doctor, they theorize the only way to kill it is to get it on dry land, but unfortunately, it’s raining.

Nothing like keeping the party alive to avoid an invasion.

12. Stand by Me

Stand by Me (1986) trailer

Stand by Me follows three friends on their way to self-discovery. When news of a dead body hits town, they go on a journey to find it, but they get into all sorts of fun trouble along the way. The friends face their fears and learn how to stand up for themselves while forming a lifelong bond.

Adapted from Stephen King’s novella The Body.

11. The Cabin in the Woods

Cabin in the Woods (2012 Movie) - Official Trailer

Like any other slasher, five friends escape to the eerie wood thinking it’s an endless party. The Cabin in the Woods is not the usual abandoned place of bloodshed. Instead, there is an infinite number of creatures waiting to kill. The only chance of survival is finding the truth about the cabin.

Not your typical weekend getaway.

10. Freaks of Nature

Freaks of Nature - Official Red Band Trailer

So, what happens when aliens invade a town riddled with every apocalyptic creation humans have ever feared? That’s right, we work together. After all, this is their home too. It is now up to a small blended town to save Earth from aliens and learn how to co-exist.

Aliens, Vampires, Zombies, oh my!

9. The World’s End

The World's End Official Trailer

Sixty pints to the world’s end. Five friends go back home to finish the ultimate pub crawl. After a few drinks, they realize the locals are a bit strange. But, never mind, they have the challenge to finish, and I guess a world to save in between.

The film is the third in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy featuring a green ice cream representing aliens.

8. Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters (1984) Trailer

A few scientist friends specialize in everything paranormal. Unfortunately, everyone’s a skeptic, until the entire town is subjected to a destructive supernatural force. Now with concrete evidence, the Ghostbusters have the authority to save the world.

Dan Aykroyd wrote the film based on his own paranormal beliefs.

7. Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead Official Trailer

Shaun ventures into a zombified London— to save his ex-girlfriend and a few friends. They unheroically hide out at his favorite pub until zombies start breaking in. Here, Shaun and his friends muster up the courage to fight back.

Shaun of the Dead is the first in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy by Edgar Wright.

6. Jennifer’s Body

Jennifer's Body | Official Trailer | 20th Century FOX

Jennifer is an evil seductress with a soft spot for her best friend, Needy. Of course, it’s not her fault that an incantation went wrong, and she is doomed to devour human flesh. But, would you let your best friend live after knowing her secret?

Could you be friends with a man-eating succubus?

5. Zombieland

Zombieland Official Trailer

A vicious strain turns humans into zombies. Once there is word of a zombie-free zone, a group of survivors makes their way across the country to seek refuge in California. It is up to them for survival and to keep the zombies out of the amusement park they have claimed.

Woody Harrelson stars in Zombieland.

4. Knights of Badassdom

Knights Of Badassdom Official Trailer

They have been preparing for a battle without actually knowing they have been preparing for it. A group of LARPers must defend their kingdom from the seemingly real threat of an evil succubus. This is what happens when you recite random passages from the internet.

The actors went through a live-action role-play boot camp before filming.

3. It

It trailer (2017)

Pennywise has an insatiable appetite for children. While children all over Derry start to disappear, a group of kids take it upon themselves to end the tragedy. The kids must be brave and not give in to their darkest nightmares if they are to defeat the dancing clown.

It grossed over $700 million worldwide.

2. This Is the End

THIS IS THE END - Official Redband Trailer

Things just got real for this group of star-studded friends. They decide to ride out the apocalypse in fashion and discover what they mean to each other. They also realize how selfish some people can be.

Next time you have a party, just remember who is on the guest list in case the world decides to end.

1. Rim of the World

Rim of the World | Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix

A group of summer camp misfits’ stumble across a crashed NASA pod where the astronaut warns them of an alien invasion. They are given the task of saving the world by delivering a key to a doctor in Pasadena, CA. Though they just met that day, they must come together for the sake of the planet.