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Movies that feel likeThe Purge (2013)

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.

If you loved The Purge, the closest films we have are 28 Days Later (2002), Overlord (2018) and A Quiet Place: Day One (2024). All three share The Purge's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Companion (2025).

🍅 41% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James DeMonacocerebraldreadunsettlingtensebleak
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Purge: Anarchy (2014) · The Purge: Election Year (2016) · The First Purge (2018) · The Forever Purge (2021)

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28 Days Later
2002 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 87%★ 7.5horror · thriller · science fictionApple TV+

A city turned lethal overnight, ordinary people forced to survive it

The difference: A raging virus loose in a nation, not one law-sanctioned night

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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Overlord
2018 · dir. Julius Avery
🍅 82%★ 6.6horror · war · science fictionParamount+

Trapped behind enemy lines with monstrous evil closing in fast

The difference: A WWII squad mission, not a family defending its own front door

On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.

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

One wrong move brings death, and a family instinct to protect kicks in

The difference: Alien invasion citywide, not a law that makes murder legal for a night

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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A Quiet Place Part II
2021 · dir. John Krasinski
🍅 91%★ 7.2science fiction · thriller · horrorNetflixParamount+

Both land ideas and dread at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Bird Box
2018 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 64%★ 6.6horror · thriller · dramaNetflix

A family fighting an unseen threat they can't reason or negotiate with

The difference: A road-trip survival story, not a single night barricaded at home

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

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The Mist
2007 · dir. Frank Darabont
🍅 74%★ 7.1horror · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

The same mix in both: unease, then tension

The difference: Takes it somewhere less bleak than The Purge does

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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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 39%★ 5.5action · horror · science fictionNetflixHulu

A corporate-built dystopia where survival means outlasting monsters

The difference: Franchise action spectacle, gunfights and lore over dread

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2021 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 30%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionHuluStarz

A town hollowed out by corporate greed until the monsters come out

The difference: Franchise reboot lore and zombies, not a single home under siege

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

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Superdeep
2020 · dir. Arseny Syukhin
🍅 25%★ 4.9horror · science fiction · thrillerRent or buy

A team sealed in with something that should have stayed undisturbed

The difference: A Soviet-era excavation horror, not a night of legalized violence

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 · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

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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Companion
2025 · dir. Drew Hancock
🍅 93%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thrillerMax

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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Alien Resurrection
1997 · dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
🍅 55%★ 6.2science fiction · horror · action

A world engineered by people who see you as raw material

The difference: A spaceship full of smugglers and clones, not a suburban home

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

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