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Movies that feel likeSigns (2002)

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

If you loved Signs, the closest films we have are 28 Weeks Later (2007), Nope (2022) and The Visit (2015). All three share Signs' tense and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Julia's Eyes (2010).

πŸ… 76% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. M. Night Shyamalantensecerebraldreadunsettlingmelancholy
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28 Weeks Later
2007 Β· dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.8horror Β· thriller Β· science fictionParamount+Peacock

Tense and cerebral in the same breath

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

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Nope
2022 Β· dir. Jordan Peele
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.8horror Β· science fiction Β· thrillerNetflix

The same two preoccupations: alien, and alien invasion

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

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The Visit
2015 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.3horror Β· thrillerPrime Video

The same hand behind both of them: M. Night Shyamalan

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Signs

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

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The Endless
2017 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.5science fiction Β· horror Β· thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Both land dread and unease at once

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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The Mist
2007 Β· dir. Frank Darabont
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.1horror Β· science fiction Β· thrillerPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: faith

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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The Invisible Man
2020 Β· dir. Leigh Whannell
β˜… 7.1thriller Β· science fiction Β· horrorRent or buy

Melancholy thriller, and it commits to that

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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The Happening
2008 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 17%β˜… 5thriller Β· science fiction

M. Night Shyamalan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?

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Wrong Turn
2003 Β· dir. Rob Schmidt
πŸ… 40%β˜… 6.1horror Β· thrillerPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

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Julia's Eyes
2010 Β· dir. Guillem Morales
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.7horror Β· thriller

Dread-soaked science fiction in both cases

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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Antichrist
2009 Β· dir. Lars von Trier
πŸ… 53%β˜… 6.5drama Β· horror Β· thrillerRent or buy

Common ground: symbolism

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Signs does

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Night of the Living Dead
1968 Β· dir. George A. Romero
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.8horror Β· thriller Β· science fictionMaxPeacock

Both lean on ideas more than on thriller

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

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A Quiet Place Part II
2021 Β· dir. John Krasinski
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.2science fiction Β· thriller Β· horrorNetflixParamount+

One thread runs through both: alien

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

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