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Movies that feel likeApocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024)

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.

If you loved Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, the closest films we have are Ziam (2025), Colony (2026) and Blood Red Sky (2021). All three share Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End'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 Incantation (2022).

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

The same preoccupation in both: zombie

The difference: Goes its own way on the stillness

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
🍅 82%★ 6.5horror · action · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

The difference: Less contemplative, more its own thing

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

Both land momentum and dread at once

The difference: Leans further into thriller

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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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%★ 6.3horrorNetflix

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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Raw
2017 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 92%★ 6.9horror · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.

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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%★ 6.7horror · thriller · dramaRent or buy

Contemplative action in both cases

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%★ 5.7horrorParamount+

One thread runs through both: cat

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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

Common ground: zombie apocalypse

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

Action 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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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.7horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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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