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Movies that feel likePrometheus (2012)

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

If you loved Prometheus, the closest films we have are Vivarium (2019), Color Out of Space (2020) and It Follows (2015). All three share Prometheus' twisty and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Wailing (2016).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ridley Scottcerebraltwistydreadunsettling
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Alien: Covenant (2017)

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Vivarium
2019 · dir. Lorcan Finnegan
🍅 73%★ 5.8science fiction · mystery · horrorRent or buy

Curiosity leads somewhere engineered, inescapable and quietly hostile

The difference: Suburban surrealism on a tiny scale — unease, not spectacle

A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.

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

Cerebral and twisty in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Prometheus does

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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It Follows
2015 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 95%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

An implacable threat that turns dread into a permanent state

The difference: Suburban and minimal — atmosphere over spectacle or scope

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+

Discovery by dissection, each finding worse than the last

The difference: One cramped room, no budget for wonder — pure creeping fear

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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The Wailing
2016 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 99%★ 7.4horror · mystery

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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Life
2017 · dir. Daniel Espinosa
🍅 67%★ 6.6horror · science fiction · mysteryHulu

A confined crew learning the specimen is smarter than they are

The difference: Tight and unpretentious — no cosmic questions, just survival

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

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A Cure for Wellness
2017 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 42%★ 6.4horror · mystery · science fictionPrime Video

Beautiful sterile spaces hiding something rotten and ancient

The difference: Earthbound gothic — slow, lurid, and stranger than it is scary

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

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Pandorum
2009 · dir. Christian Alvart
🍅 26%★ 6.7action · horror · mystery

Waking on a dead ship with no memory and something hunting the halls

The difference: Scrappier B-movie — twists over ideas, murk over majesty

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.

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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 38%★ 6.3science fiction · mystery · horrorRent or buy

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

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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Paranormal Activity
2009 · dir. Oren Peli
🍅 82%★ 6.3horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

Twisty mystery in both cases

The difference: Trades the ideas of Prometheus for an angle of its own

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

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The Cloverfield Paradox
2018 · dir. Julius Onah
🍅 22%★ 5.5horror · mystery · science fictionNetflix

A science mission in deep space cracks open questions it can't contain

The difference: Messy and studio-mangled — the big ideas mostly stay unearned

Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

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Final Destination 5
2011 · dir. Steven Quale
🍅 64%★ 5.9horror · mysteryMax

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive, and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.

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