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Movies that feel likeTrain to Busan (2016)

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

If you loved Train to Busan, the closest films we have are Ziam (2025), Colony (2026) and Blood Red Sky (2021). All three share Train to Busan's kinetic and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Most Dangerous Game (1932).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Yeon Sang-hokineticdreadunsettlingtenseepic
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Peninsula (2020)

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

Confined-space zombie carnage in the Busan mold

The difference: A Thai actioner — muay thai brawling over character grief

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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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 81%★ 6.5horror · action · science fiction

The same director back on undead ground, survivors against the swarm

The difference: An untested follow-up — it has this film's shadow to escape

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

The same mix in both: momentum, then dread

The difference: Trades the scale of Train to Busan for an angle of its own

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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The Most Dangerous Game
1932 · dir. Irving Pichel
🍅 100%★ 7.1thriller · adventure · horrorPrime VideoMax

Unsettling where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: 84 years apart, and the 1930s show

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

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Day Watch
2006 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 62%★ 6.4fantasy · action · adventure

Epic action in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 67%★ 6.5thriller · horror

Outbreak claustrophobia that never lets you out of the building

The difference: Found-footage demonology — a sharp turn into the occult

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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The Forever Purge
2021 · dir. Everardo Gout
🍅 48%★ 5.4action · horror · thrillerPeacock

Ordinary people running a gauntlet of merciless hunters

The difference: Human villains and blunt politics — no infection dread

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.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

An outbreak closing around one family, house by house

The difference: Quiet suburban slow burn — the horror arrives late

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Unhinged
2020 · dir. Derrick Borte
🍅 49%★ 6action · thriller · horrorPrime Video

Horror built on momentum, twice over

Rachel is a divorced single mother whose bad day gets even worse. She's running late to drop her son off at school when she honks her horn impatiently at a fellow driver during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of words, she soon realizes that the mysterious man is following her and her young son in his truck. A case of road rage quickly escalates, at horrifyingly psychotic proportions, into full-blown terror as Rachel discovers the psychopath's sinister plan for revenge. He is single-mindedly determined to teach her a deadly lesson.

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The Mummy
2017 · dir. Alex Kurtzman
🍅 15%★ 5.4fantasy · thriller · actionPrime VideoMax

A cursed threat unleashed at franchise blockbuster scale

The difference: A famously misjudged reboot — spectacle without terror

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

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Van Helsing
2004 · dir. Stephen Sommers
★ 6.1horror · adventure · actionPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked adventure, and it commits to that

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.

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Don't Breathe
2016 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 88%★ 7.1horror · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

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