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Movies that feel like What We Become (2015)

If you loved What We Become, the closest films we have are Ziam (2025), [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014) and [REC]² (2009). All three share What We Become's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bo Mikkelsendreadunsettlingtense
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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

One thread runs through both: zombie

The difference: Sits closer to action than What We Become does

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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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Common ground: virus

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

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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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
6.5action · horror · science fiction

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Not nearly as tense as What We Become

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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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

Both are built on the same subject: virus

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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The Sadness
2021 · dir. Rob Jabbaz
🍅 88%6.5horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than What We Become does

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

Unsettling thriller in both cases

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%6.6thriller · horror · drama

Both run tense where it counts

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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