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Movies that feel likeResident Evil: Retribution (2012)

The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

If you loved Resident Evil: Retribution, the closest films we have are World War Z (2013), Shin Godzilla (2016) and Colony (2026). All three share Resident Evil: Retribution's kinetic and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Overlord (2018).

🍅 28% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paul W. S. Andersonkineticdreadunsettlingcerebralbleakparanoid
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Resident Evil (2002) · Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) · Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) · Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) · Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

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World War Z
2013 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 67%★ 7action · horror · science fictionParamount+Peacock

The same two preoccupations: dystopia, and zombie

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

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

The same mix in both: momentum, then dread

The difference: Lighter on bleakness

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

One thread runs through both: zombie

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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Overlord
2018 · dir. Julius Avery
🍅 82%★ 6.6horror · war · science fictionParamount+

Unsettling and cerebral in the same breath

The difference: Leans further into war

On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.

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Hostel
2006 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 60%★ 5.9horrorPeacock

Both lean on paranoia more than on horror

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

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The Island
2005 · dir. Michael Bay
★ 6.8action · thriller · science fictionParamount+

Common ground: plague

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie.

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2021 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 30%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionHuluStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mutant

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

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Death Race
2008 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 41%★ 6.4action · thriller · science fictionStarz

Both are Paul W. S. Anderson's work, and they rhyme

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

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Alien Resurrection
1997 · dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
🍅 55%★ 6.2science fiction · horror · action

Both are built on the same subject: dystopia

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

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AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 21%★ 5.7adventure · science fiction · action

The same hand behind both of them: Paul W. S. Anderson

When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.

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

The same preoccupation in both: virus

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

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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