
Movies that feel like Deep Blue Sea (1999)
If you loved Deep Blue Sea, the closest films we have are The Meg (2018), Doom (2005) and Meg 2: The Trench (2023). All three share Deep Blue Sea's kinetic and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
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If Deep Blue Sea hit the spot, these will too

Both are working the same pair: shark, animal horror

Both are built on the same subject: creature
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

The same preoccupation in both: shark
The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2020s show

Common ground: genetic engineering
The difference: None of the momentum Deep Blue Sea is built on

One thread runs through both: scientist

Kinetic where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

Both land unease and ideas at once

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Both keep coming back to the same thing: creature
The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Deep Blue Sea does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: scientist

Horror built on dread, twice over

Unsettling science fiction, and it commits to that
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