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Movies that feel likeBrightburn (2019)

What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

If you loved Brightburn, the closest films we have are The Host (2006), M3GAN (2022) and Spring (2014). All three share Brightburn'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 Fly (1958).

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Yaroveskydreadunsettlingcerebralcontemplative
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The Host
2006 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 93%★ 7.1horror · drama · science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

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

Horror with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of Brightburn 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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Spring
2014 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · romance · science fiction

Both lean on dread more than on science fiction

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Brightburn does

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

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The Thing from Another World
1951 · dir. Christian Nyby
🍅 87%★ 7drama · horror · science fiction

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: 68 years apart, and the 1950s show

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

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

Horror built on unease, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Brightburn does

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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The Fly
1958 · dir. Kurt Neumann
🍅 95%★ 7.1science fiction · horror · dramaPrime Video

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

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The New Mutants
2020 · dir. Josh Boone
🍅 36%★ 5.3science fiction · horrorDisney+

Dread-soaked drama, and it commits to that

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

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

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

Both are built on the same subject: countryside

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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Shin Godzilla
2016 · dir. Shinji Higuchi
🍅 87%★ 6.9action · science fiction · horrorMax

Different title, same corner of the shelf

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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Sputnik
2020 · dir. Egor Abramenko
🍅 88%★ 6.4science fiction · drama · horrorRent or buy

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

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

Both play horror straight

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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