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Movies that feel like A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

If you loved A Quiet Place: Day One, the closest films we have are 28 Years Later (2025), The Platform 2 (2024) and Superdeep (2020). All three share A Quiet Place: Day One's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 86% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Michael Sarnoskidreadunsettlingcerebraltense
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If A Quiet Place: Day One hit the spot, these will too

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28 Years Later
2025 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.6horror Β· thriller Β· science fiction

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

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.

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The Platform 2
2024 Β· dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
πŸ… 36%β˜… 4.9science fiction Β· horror Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: survival

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Superdeep
2020 Β· dir. Arseny Syukhin
β˜… 4.9horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Both land dread and unease at once

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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The Pool
2018 Β· dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
πŸ… 96%β˜… 5.3thriller Β· horror

One thread runs through both: escape

The difference: Not nearly as cerebral as A Quiet Place: Day One

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Nope
2022 Β· dir. Jordan Peele
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.8horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

The same two preoccupations: alien, and alien invasion

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

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#Alive
2020 Β· dir. Cho Il
β˜… 6.3action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: escape

The difference: None of the tension A Quiet Place: Day One is built on

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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Evil Dead Rise
2023 Β· dir. Lee Cronin
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.5horror Β· thriller

Common ground: spin off

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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Color Out of Space
2020 Β· dir. Richard Stanley
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.1horror Β· science fiction Β· mystery

Both are built on the same subject: alien invasion

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than A Quiet Place: Day One does

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touchesβ€”including them.

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The Mist
2007 Β· dir. Frank Darabont
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.1horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

The same mix in both: ideas, then tension

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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The Invisible Man
2020 Β· dir. Leigh Whannell
β˜… 7.1thriller Β· science fiction Β· horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 Β· dir. Adam Robitel
πŸ… 34%β˜… 5.7horror Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 Β· dir. Leigh Whannell
πŸ… 56%β˜… 6.1horror Β· thriller

Tense science fiction in both cases

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

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