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Movies that feel like [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014)

If you loved [REC]⁴ Apocalypse, the closest films we have are What We Become (2015), Ziam (2025) and The Sadness (2021). All three share [REC]⁴ Apocalypse's tense and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Balaguerótensedreadunsettling

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: [REC] (2007) · [REC]² (2009) · [REC]³ Genesis (2012)

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

Two things both keep coming back to: zombie and virus

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

The difference: Leans harder into action than [REC]⁴ Apocalypse does

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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The Sadness
2021 · dir. Rob Jabbaz
🍅 88%6.5horror · thriller

Common ground: virus

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: found footage

The difference: Reviewed even better

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%6.3horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: found footage

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%6.2horror

One thread runs through both: occult

The difference: Not nearly as tense as [REC]⁴ Apocalypse

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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Sleep Tight
2011 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 91%7.2thriller · horror

Both are Jaume Balagueró's work, and they rhyme

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.

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The Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%5.8thriller · mystery · horror

Jaume Balagueró directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than [REC]⁴ Apocalypse does

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Both land tension and dread at once

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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

Unsettling thriller in both cases

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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Ring
1998 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 98%7.2horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: occult

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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

Tense horror, and it commits to that

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

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