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Movies that feel like 28 Years Later (2025)

If you loved 28 Years Later, the closest films we have are A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), Colony (2026) and #Alive (2020). All three share 28 Years Later's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Danny Boyledreadunsettlingtensecerebral
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: 28 Days Later (2002) · 28 Weeks Later (2007)

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A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 · dir. Michael Sarnoski
🍅 86%6.2horror · science fiction · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: survival and survival horror

As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
6.5action · horror · science fiction

Common ground: zombie

The difference: Not nearly as tense as 28 Years Later

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

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#Alive
2020 · dir. Cho Il
6.3action · horror · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie apocalypse

The difference: Missing the tension of 28 Years Later

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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The Platform 2
2024 · dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
🍅 36%4.9science fiction · horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: survival

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.

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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

Both are built on the same subject: zombie

The difference: Leans harder into action than 28 Years Later does

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Superdeep
2020 · dir. Arseny Syukhin
4.9horror · science fiction · thriller

Tense and cerebral in the same breath

In 1984, a Russian research team goes below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole is hiding. On their expedition, something unexpectedly gruesome awaits the researchers.

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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 38%6.3thriller · science fiction · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: cult

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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The Endless
2017 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 91%6.5science fiction · horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: cult

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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The Mist
2007 · dir. Frank Darabont
🍅 74%7.1horror · science fiction · thriller

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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