
Movies that feel like The Sadness (2021)
If you loved The Sadness, the closest films we have are What We Become (2015), [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014) and [REC]² (2009). All three share The Sadness' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.
If The Sadness hit the spot, these will too

Both keep coming back to the same thing: virus
![[REC]⁴ Apocalypse poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vbflx4rDj3YrRAAk4HSWsEgZVlK.jpg)
The same preoccupation in both: virus
![[REC]² poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fJuIhJ5s8WGNZN3wuk9d84nMjXk.jpg)
Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Horror built on tension, twice over

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Thriller built on unease, twice over


Both working the same horror territory

Both know what they want from thriller
The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Sadness does
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