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Movies that feel likeThe New Mutants (2020)

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.

If you loved The New Mutants, the closest films we have are M3GAN (2022), Spring (2014) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024). All three share The New Mutants' cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Colony (2026).

πŸ… 36% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Josh Boonecerebraldreadunsettling
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix Β· HBO Max Β· Amazon Prime Video

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

Cerebral where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Science fiction with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The New Mutants 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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A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 Β· dir. Michael Sarnoski
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.2horror Β· science fiction Β· thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Both lean on ideas more than on horror

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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Colony
2026 Β· dir. Yeon Sang-ho
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.5horror Β· action Β· science fiction

Dread-soaked science fiction, and it commits to that

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

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Splice
2010 Β· dir. Vincenzo Natali
πŸ… 75%β˜… 5.8horror Β· science fiction

Unsettling horror in both cases

Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators - only to have that bond turn deadly.

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28 Years Later
2025 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.6horror Β· thriller Β· science fictionNetflix

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

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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Brightburn
2019 Β· dir. David Yarovesky
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.1horror Β· science fiction Β· dramaPeacock

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

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Superdeep
2020 Β· dir. Arseny Syukhin
πŸ… 25%β˜… 4.9horror Β· science fiction Β· thrillerRent or buy

A streak of unease through both

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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#Alive
2020 Β· dir. Cho Il
β˜… 6.3action Β· horror Β· science fictionNetflix

Science fiction approached the same way

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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Meg 2: The Trench
2023 Β· dir. Ben Wheatley
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5action Β· science fiction Β· horrorMax

Both are horror through and through

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

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The Platform 2
2024 Β· dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
πŸ… 36%β˜… 4.9science fiction Β· horror Β· thrillerNetflix

Both working the same science fiction territory

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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Shin Godzilla
2016 Β· dir. Shinji Higuchi
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9action Β· science fiction Β· horrorMax

Both know what they want from horror

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

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