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Movies that feel like Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024)

If you loved Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, the closest films we have are Ziam (2025), Colony (2026) and Pet Sematary (2019). All three share Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

When a kind of rabies that transforms people into aggressive creatures spreads across the planet, Manel isolates himself at home with his cat, relying on his wits to survive; but soon they must go out in search of food, by land and by sea, dodging many dangers.

6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Carles Torrenscontemplativekineticdreadunsettling
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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

The same preoccupation in both: zombie

The difference: Without the same stillness

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative

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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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%5.7horror

The same two preoccupations: cat, and neighbor neighbor relationship

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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

Common ground: zombie apocalypse

The difference: Played as science fiction first

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

Both land dread and unease at once

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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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%6.2horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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Blood Red Sky
2021 · dir. Peter Thorwarth
🍅 81%6.1horror · thriller · action

Action built on momentum, twice over

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Warm Bodies
2013 · dir. Jonathan Levine
🍅 81%6.8horror · comedy · romance

Both are built on the same subject: zombie apocalypse

After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%6.6horror · thriller · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

Action with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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