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Movies that feel like Pandorum (2009)

If you loved Pandorum, the closest films we have are Case 39 (2009), Color Out of Space (2020) and Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007). All three share Pandorum's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Christian Alvartkineticdreadunsettlingtwistycerebraltense
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Case 39
2009 · dir. Christian Alvart
🍅 22%6.2horror · mystery · thriller

Christian Alvart working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the momentum Pandorum is built on

In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.

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Color Out of Space
2020 · dir. Richard Stanley
🍅 86%6.1horror · science fiction · mystery

Common ground: mutation

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007 · dir. Colin Strause
🍅 12%4.6action · science fiction · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: creature

After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.

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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 38%6.3thriller · science fiction · mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

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Doom
2005 · dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak
🍅 18%5.2action · horror · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: creature

A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.

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Deep Blue Sea
1999 · dir. Renny Harlin
🍅 60%5.9action · horror · science fiction

Kinetic and cerebral in the same breath

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.

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

One thread runs through both: survival

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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The Crazies
2010 · dir. Breck Eisner
🍅 72%6.5mystery · horror · action

Action built on twists, twice over

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

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

Both lean on tension more than on horror

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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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

Dread-soaked mystery in both cases

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%6.4horror · thriller · mystery

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%6.7horror · mystery · thriller

Science fiction with a pulse of twists, in both cases

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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