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Movies that feel like28 Years Later (2025)

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

If you loved 28 Years Later, the closest films we have are A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), Companion (2025) and Resident Evil (2026). All three share 28 Years Later's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Endless (2017).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Danny Boyledreadunsettlingtensecerebral
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: 28 Days Later (2002) · 28 Weeks Later (2007)

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A Quiet Place: Day One
2024 · dir. Michael Sarnoski
🍅 86%★ 6.2horror · science fiction · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Two things both keep coming back to: survival and survival horror

As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

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Companion
2025 · dir. Drew Hancock
🍅 93%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thrillerMax

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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Resident Evil
2026 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 96%★ 7.3horror · science fiction · adventureRent or buy

The same two preoccupations: zombie, and zombie apocalypse

The difference: Easier on the tension than 28 Years Later

Medical courier Bryan unwittingly finds himself fighting for survival as one fateful, horrifying night collapses around him in chaos.

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The Mist
2007 · dir. Frank Darabont
🍅 74%★ 7.1horror · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: survival

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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The Endless
2017 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 91%★ 6.5science fiction · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Common ground: cult

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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M3GAN
2022 · dir. Gerard Johnstone
🍅 93%★ 6.3science fiction · horrorNetflix

Cerebral horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the tension of 28 Years Later for an angle of its own

A brilliant toy company roboticist uses artificial intelligence to develop M3GAN, a life-like doll programmed to emotionally bond with her newly orphaned niece. But when the doll's programming works too well, she becomes overprotective of her new friend with terrifying results.

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The Platform 2
2024 · dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
🍅 36%★ 4.9science fiction · horror · thrillerNetflix

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.

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Superdeep
2020 · dir. Arseny Syukhin
🍅 25%★ 4.9horror · science fiction · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on dread more than on science fiction

In 1984, a Russian research team goes below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole is hiding. On their expedition, something unexpectedly gruesome awaits the researchers.

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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026 · dir. Jacob Chase
🍅 57%★ 6.2horror · thrillerRent or buy

One thread runs through both: cult

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 38%★ 6.3science fiction · mystery · horrorRent or buy

Horror built on unease, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than 28 Years Later does

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

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#Alive
2020 · dir. Cho Il
★ 6.3action · horror · science fictionNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: zombie

The difference: Leans harder into action than 28 Years Later does

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

Tense thriller in both cases

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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