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Movies that feel like Underwater (2020)

If you loved Underwater, the closest films we have are Meg 2: The Trench (2023), Shin Godzilla (2016) and The Meg (2018). All three share Underwater's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

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

Both are working the same pair: deep sea, underwater

The difference: Missing the scale of Underwater

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

Two things both keep coming back to: monster and giant monster

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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The Meg
2018 Β· dir. Jon Turteltaub
πŸ… 47%β˜… 5.7action Β· science fiction Β· horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: deep sea

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

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

Both are built on the same subject: survival

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

Both land dread and unease at once

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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Godzilla Minus One
2023 Β· dir. Takashi Yamazaki
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.7science fiction Β· horror Β· action

The same preoccupation in both: monster

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

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65
2023 Β· dir. Scott Beck
πŸ… 35%β˜… 5.4action Β· adventure Β· science fiction

One thread runs through both: giant monster

65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016 Β· dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
πŸ… 39%β˜… 5.5action Β· horror Β· science fiction

The same mix in both: ideas, then momentum

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: Afterlife
2010 Β· dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
πŸ… 21%β˜… 5.8action Β· adventure Β· horror

Both lean on scale more than on horror

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

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The New Mutants
2020 Β· dir. Josh Boone
πŸ… 36%β˜… 5.3science fiction Β· horror

Dread-soaked science fiction in both cases

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.

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The Mist
2007 Β· dir. Frank Darabont
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.1horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Common ground: survival

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Underwater 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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Rampage
2018 Β· dir. Brad Peyton
πŸ… 51%β˜… 6.1action Β· adventure Β· science fiction

Action built on ideas, twice over

Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

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