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Movies that feel like The Forever Purge (2021)

If you loved The Forever Purge, the closest films we have are Blood Red Sky (2021), Halloween Kills (2021) and Saw VI (2009). All three share The Forever Purge'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, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.

🍅 48% Rotten Tomatoes5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Everardo Goutkineticdreadunsettlingtense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Purge (2013) · The Purge: Anarchy (2014) · The Purge: Election Year (2016) · The First Purge (2018)

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Blood Red Sky
2021 · dir. Peter Thorwarth
🍅 81%6.1horror · thriller · action

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

The difference: Reviewed even better

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

Common ground: murder

The difference: Missing the momentum of The Forever Purge

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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Saw VI
2009 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 39%6.1horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: survival horror

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

The same mix in both: momentum, then dread

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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The Hunt
2020 · dir. Craig Zobel
🍅 57%6.6action · thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: survival horror

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

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Don't Breathe 2
2021 · dir. Rodo Sayagues
6thriller · horror

Unsettling where it counts, tense underneath

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 34%5.7horror · thriller

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

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Countdown
2019 · dir. Justin Dec
🍅 26%5.4horror · thriller

Tense action in both cases

A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%6.3horror · thriller

Horror built on dread, twice over

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Halloween
2018 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 79%6.5horror · thriller

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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

Tense action, and it commits to that

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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