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Movies that feel likeResident Evil (2026)

Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

If you loved Resident Evil, the closest films we have are Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Colony (2026) and Spring (2014). All three share Resident Evil's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Island of Lost Souls (1932).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

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Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954 · dir. Jack Arnold
🍅 81%★ 6.9adventure · horror · science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: 72 years apart, and the 1950s show

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 81%★ 6.5horror · action · science fiction

One thread runs through both: zombie

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Resident Evil does

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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Spring
2014 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · romance · science fiction

Horror with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Trades the scale of Resident Evil for an angle of its own

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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28 Years Later
2025 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 88%★ 6.6horror · thriller · science fictionNetflix

The same two preoccupations: survival, and survival horror

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Resident Evil does

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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The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · dir. Jack Arnold
🍅 83%★ 7.6science fiction · adventure · horror

Science fiction built on scale, twice over

A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.

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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%★ 7.4science fiction · horror

Both lean on dread more than on adventure

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie apocalypse

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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Underwater
2020 · dir. William Eubank
🍅 48%★ 5.9horror · science fiction · action

Common ground: survival

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

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Son of Frankenstein
1939 · dir. Rowland V. Lee
🍅 95%★ 7.1horror · science fiction

Unsettling horror in both cases

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

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The Thing from Another World
1951 · dir. Christian Nyby
🍅 87%★ 7drama · horror · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: survival horror

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

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Shin Godzilla
2016 · dir. Shinji Higuchi
🍅 87%★ 6.9action · science fiction · horrorMax

Cerebral science fiction, 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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Superdeep
2020 · dir. Arseny Syukhin
🍅 25%★ 4.9horror · science fiction · thrillerRent or buy

Dread-soaked adventure, and it commits to that

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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