
Movies that feel likeResident Evil (2026)
If you loved Resident Evil, the closest films we have are Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), 28 Years Later (2025) and Spring (2014). All three share Resident Evil'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 Island of Lost Souls (1932).
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If Resident Evil hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath
The difference: 72 years apart, and the 1950s show

The same two preoccupations: survival, and zombie
The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Resident Evil does

Horror with a pulse of ideas, in both cases
The difference: Trades the scale of Resident Evil for an angle of its own

One thread runs through both: zombie
The difference: Sits closer to action than Resident Evil does

Both lean on dread more than on science fiction

Adventure built on scale, twice over

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie apocalypse

Common ground: survival
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Unsettling horror in both cases

Both are built on the same subject: body horror

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Both lean on dread more than on adventure
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