
Movies that feel likeAnnihilation (2018)
If you loved Annihilation, the closest films we have are The Endless (2017), Nope (2022) and Godzilla Minus One (2023). All three share Annihilation's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Borderlands (2014).
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If Annihilation hit the spot, these will too

Both land ideas and dread at once
The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Annihilation does

Unsettling where it counts, melancholy underneath

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Sci-fi dread rooted in a woman nobody will believe
The difference: A taut stalker thriller — grounded fear, no cosmic strangeness

Unsettling science fiction in both cases

Both lean on melancholy more than on horror
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Horror built on dread, twice over
The difference: Easier on the ideas than Annihilation

Unsettling science fiction, and it commits to that

The shared currency is melancholy

Science's creation slipping its leash in unnerving increments
The difference: A campy crowd-pleaser — winks where Garland stays deadly serious

Both run cerebral where it counts
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