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Movies that feel likeM3GAN (2022)

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

If you loved M3GAN, the closest films we have are Companion (2025), Spring (2014) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024). All three share M3GAN'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 Colony (2026).

πŸ… 93% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Gerard Johnstonecerebraldreadunsettling
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix Β· HBO Max Β· Amazon Prime Video

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Companion
2025 Β· dir. Drew Hancock
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.9horror Β· science fiction Β· thrillerMax

Two things both keep coming back to: android and artificial intelligence

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than M3GAN does

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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Spring
2014 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· romance Β· science fiction

The same mix in both: ideas, then dread

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

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A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 Β· dir. Michael Sarnoski
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.2horror Β· science fiction Β· thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Science fiction with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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

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Colony
2026 Β· dir. Yeon Sang-ho
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.5horror Β· action Β· science fiction

Horror built on ideas, twice over

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

Dread-soaked science fiction in both cases

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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Shin Godzilla
2016 Β· dir. Shinji Higuchi
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9action Β· science fiction Β· horrorMax

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

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The New Mutants
2020 Β· dir. Josh Boone
πŸ… 36%β˜… 5.3science fiction Β· horrorDisney+

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

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Brightburn
2019 Β· dir. David Yarovesky
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.1horror Β· science fiction Β· dramaPeacock

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

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

Both work the same unease

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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Meg 2: The Trench
2023 Β· dir. Ben Wheatley
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5action Β· science fiction Β· horrorMax

Science fiction approached the same way

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

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

The horror is handled with the same confidence

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
πŸ… 25%β˜… 4.9horror Β· science fiction Β· thrillerRent or buy

Both are science fiction through and through

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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