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Movies that feel like Spring (2014)

If you loved Spring, the closest films we have are Annihilation (2018), M3GAN (2022) and The New Mutants (2020). All three share Spring's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel and Philo and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 85% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Aaron Moorheaddreadunsettlingcerebral

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Late Spring (1949)

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Annihilation
2018 Β· dir. Alex Garland
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.8science fiction Β· horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

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M3GAN
2022 Β· dir. Gerard Johnstone
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· horror

Cerebral horror, and it commits to that

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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The New Mutants
2020 Β· dir. Josh Boone
πŸ… 36%β˜… 5.3science fiction Β· horror

Science fiction built on dread, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

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Scanners
1981 Β· dir. David Cronenberg
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.7science fiction Β· horror

Romance with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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The Fly
1986 Β· dir. David Cronenberg
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.6horror Β· science fiction

Both trade on ideas more than on being horror

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

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Phantasm
1979 Β· dir. Don Coscarelli
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.6horror Β· science fiction

Dread-soaked science fiction in both cases

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

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

Aaron Moorhead directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans thriller where Spring does not

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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Phase IV
1974 Β· dir. Saul Bass
πŸ… 50%β˜… 6.4horror Β· science fiction

Romance built on unease, twice over

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

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Alien: Covenant
2017 Β· dir. Ridley Scott
πŸ… 65%β˜… 6.4horror Β· science fiction

Horror with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

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Alien: Romulus
2024 · dir. Fede Álvarez
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.1horror Β· science fiction

The same horror instincts

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

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The Substance
2024 Β· dir. Coralie Fargeat
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2horror Β· science fiction

Science fiction approached the same way

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

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A Cure for Wellness
2017 Β· dir. Gore Verbinski
πŸ… 42%β˜… 6.4horror Β· mystery Β· science fiction

Cut from the same horror cloth

The difference: Plays it as mystery more than Spring does

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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