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Movies that feel like Anna and the Apocalypse (2018)

If you loved Anna and the Apocalypse, the closest films we have are Extra Ordinary (2019), Krampus (2015) and Better Watch Out (2017). All three share Anna and the Apocalypse's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven—at Christmas—forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival. In a desperate race to reach their loved ones, they soon learn that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John McPhaildreadunsettlingwittyplayfuldreamlike

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Extra Ordinary
2019 · dir. Mike Ahern
🍅 98%6.4fantasy · comedy · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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Krampus
2015 · dir. Michael Dougherty
🍅 67%6.2horror · comedy · fantasy

Common ground: holiday

When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.

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Better Watch Out
2017 · dir. Chris Peckover
🍅 89%6.5horror · thriller · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: christmas horror

The difference: Missing the dream logic of Anna and the Apocalypse

On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%6.9fantasy · horror

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: None of the wit Anna and the Apocalypse is built on

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
2020 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%4.9comedy · horror

Both land wit and play at once

Addicted to technology, a group of teens attends a rehabilitation camp in the forest, but a sinister force there intends to take them offline forever.

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%8.2fantasy · horror

Dread-soaked fantasy in both cases

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
5.4comedy · fantasy · family

Comedy built on unease, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into family than Anna and the Apocalypse does

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Both lean on dream logic more than on horror

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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

Both are built on the same subject: zombie

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

One thread runs through both: zombie

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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The Lure
2015 · dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska
🍅 89%6.2horror · music · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: musical

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2
2021 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
3.8horror · thriller · comedy

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

When something horrible happens to the only survivor of a bloody massacre, an insecure rookie cop must overcome his fears to stop further carnage.

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