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Movies that feel like Superdeep (2020)

If you loved Superdeep, the closest films we have are The Platform 2 (2024), The Pool (2018) and Death Whisperer (2023). All three share Superdeep's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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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The Platform 2
2024 · dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
🍅 36%4.9science fiction · horror · thriller

Both land dread and unease at once

After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.

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

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Missing the ideas of Superdeep

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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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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

Unsettling science fiction in both cases

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

Horror built on tension, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to action than Superdeep 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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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%6.6thriller · horror · drama

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Superdeep does

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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

Science fiction built on unease, twice over

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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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.7horror

Cut from the same horror cloth

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

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 fiction

Cerebral thriller, and it commits to that

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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A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 · dir. Michael Sarnoski
🍅 86%6.2horror · science fiction · thriller

Both sit in the same cerebral register

As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

The shared currency is tension

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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