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Movies that feel likePlanet Terror (2007)

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.

If you loved Planet Terror, the closest films we have are Ziam (2025), 28 Weeks Later (2007) and The Innkeepers (2012). All three share Planet Terror'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 Blood Red Sky (2021).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Rodriguezdreadunsettlingkinetictensemelancholy
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

The difference: Takes it somewhere less melancholy than Planet Terror 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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28 Weeks Later
2007 · dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
🍅 73%★ 6.8horror · thriller · science fictionParamount+Peacock

The same preoccupation in both: grief

The difference: Trades the momentum of Planet Terror for an angle of its own

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%★ 5.5horror · thrillerPrime Video

Both land dread and unease at once

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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From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 65%★ 7.2horror · action · crimePeacock

Robert Rodriguez directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Planet Terror does

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 67%★ 6.5thriller · horror

Common ground: 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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Blood Red Sky
2021 · dir. Peter Thorwarth
🍅 81%★ 6.1horror · thriller · actionNetflix

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

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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Wrong Turn
2003 · dir. Rob Schmidt
🍅 40%★ 6.1horror · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: grief

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

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As Above, So Below
2014 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 30%★ 6.3horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%★ 6.5drama · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Planet Terror does

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Blade: Trinity
2004 · dir. David S. Goyer
🍅 24%★ 5.8action · horror · science fictionPeacock

Action built on unease, twice over

For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existed—The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting him—the original vampire, Dracula.

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From Hell
2001 · dir. Albert Hughes
🍅 57%★ 6.7horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Both lean on tension more than on horror

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

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Saw V
2008 · dir. David Hackl
🍅 13%★ 5.8horror · thriller · crime

Melancholy thriller in both cases

Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.

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