
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.
If 28 Years Later hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: 28 Days Later (2002) · 28 Weeks Later (2007)

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

Common ground: zombie
The difference: Not nearly as tense as 28 Years Later

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie apocalypse
The difference: Missing the tension of 28 Years Later

One thread runs through both: survival
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Both are built on the same subject: zombie
The difference: Leans harder into action than 28 Years Later does

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

Tense and cerebral in the same breath

The same preoccupation in both: cult
![[REC]⁴ Apocalypse poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vbflx4rDj3YrRAAk4HSWsEgZVlK.jpg)
Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Both keep coming back to the same thing: cult

Both lean on unease more than on thriller
![[REC]² poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fJuIhJ5s8WGNZN3wuk9d84nMjXk.jpg)
Science fiction built on tension, twice over
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