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Movies that feel like Onslaught (2026)

If you loved Onslaught, the closest films we have are Ziam (2025), Death Whisperer (2023) and What We Become (2015). All three share Onslaught'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, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers break loose in the desert, a badass Army sniper must unleash hell to protect her young daughter.

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

Both land momentum and dread at once

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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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

The same mix in both: unease, then tension

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Onslaught

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

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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Hokum
2026 · dir. Damian McCarthy
7.3horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Both lean on tension more than on action

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

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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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%6.6thriller · horror · drama

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Onslaught does

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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You're Next
2013 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 79%6.6horror · thriller · mystery

Both are Adam Wingard's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Onslaught does

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

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Train to Busan
2016 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 95%7.6action · horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: survival horror

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%5.8thriller · horror

The same two preoccupations: serial killer, and slasher

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: soldier

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

Common ground: serial killer

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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