
Movies that feel likeThe Mist (2007)
If you loved The Mist, the closest films we have are 28 Years Later (2025), A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) and Companion (2025). All three share The Mist's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Spring (2014).
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If The Mist hit the spot, these will too

One thread runs through both: survival

Both keep coming back to the same thing: survival

Both land dread and unease at once

Both are built on the same subject: faith

The same preoccupation in both: giant monster
The difference: 53 years apart, and the 1950s show

Common ground: monster
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Mist does

Cerebral and tense in the same breath
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Science fiction built on unease, twice over
The difference: Leans harder into action than The Mist does

Thriller with a pulse of ideas, in both cases
The difference: Trades the tension of The Mist for an angle of its own

Both lean on tension more than on horror

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases
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