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Movies that feel like The Endless (2017)

If you loved The Endless, the closest films we have are The Invisible Man (2020), The Mist (2007) and Spring (2014). All three share The Endless's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, YouTube TV and Amazon Prime Video with Ads and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 91% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Aaron Moorheadcerebraldreadunsettlingtensewistful

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If The Endless hit the spot, these will too

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

The same mix in both: ideas, then dread

The difference: None of the wistfulness that defines The Endless

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

Unsettling and tense in the same breath

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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Spring
2014 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· romance Β· science fiction

Both are Aaron Moorhead films, and they rhyme

The difference: Plays it as romance more than The Endless does

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 Weeks Later
2007 Β· dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.8horror Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Brothers and sisters and supernatural, at the center of both

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· thriller

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

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

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The Purge
2013 Β· dir. James DeMonaco
πŸ… 41%β˜… 5.8science fiction Β· horror Β· thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

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Signs
2002 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 76%β˜… 6.8thriller Β· science fiction Β· horror

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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

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28 Days Later
2002 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.5horror Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

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Seconds
1966 Β· dir. John Frankenheimer
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.6science fiction Β· thriller Β· horror

Both trade on ideas more than on being horror

The difference: 51 years apart, and the 1960s show

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

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

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

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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Color Out of Space
2020 Β· dir. Richard Stanley
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.1horror Β· science fiction Β· mystery

Both trade on unease more than on being science fiction

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touchesβ€”including them.

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Altered States
1980 Β· dir. Ken Russell
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Tense horror, and it commits to that

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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