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Movies that feel like Ziam (2025)

If you loved Ziam, the closest films we have are Colony (2026), What We Become (2015) and [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014). All three share Ziam's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 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.

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.

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes4.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kulp Kaljareukdreadunsettlingtensekinetic
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If Ziam hit the spot, these will too

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

Common ground: zombie

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Ziam

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

Both are built on the same subject: zombie

The difference: Missing the momentum of Ziam

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

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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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Peninsula
2020 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 55%5.5horror · action · thriller

Tense where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Ziam does

A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.

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Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
2024 · dir. Carles Torrens
6.1drama · action · horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Ziam does

When a kind of rabies that transforms people into aggressive creatures spreads across the planet, Manel isolates himself at home with his cat, relying on his wits to survive; but soon they must go out in search of food, by land and by sea, dodging many dangers.

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Train to Busan
2016 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 95%7.6action · horror · thriller

Unsettling thriller in both cases

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.

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

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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Planet Terror
2007 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 76%7horror · action · thriller

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.

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

Action built on unease, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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

Tense horror 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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#Alive
2020 · dir. Cho Il
6.3action · horror · science fiction

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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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