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Movies that feel likeThe Host (2006)

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.

If you loved The Host, the closest films we have are Spring (2014), Frankenstein (1931) and The Fly (1958). All three share The Host'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 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931).

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Spring
2014 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· romance Β· science fiction

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Host for an angle of its own

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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Frankenstein
1931 Β· dir. James Whale
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.7drama Β· horror Β· science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

One thread runs through both: monster

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it flees into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc.

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The Fly
1958 Β· dir. Kurt Neumann
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.1science fiction Β· horror Β· dramaPrime Video

The same mix in both: stillness, then ideas

Industrialist FranΓ§ois 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 Thing from Another World
1951 Β· dir. Christian Nyby
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7drama Β· horror Β· science fiction

Both lean on dread more than on horror

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

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The Fly
1986 Β· dir. David Cronenberg
πŸ… 82%β˜… 7.6horror Β· science fictionHuluPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: monster

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 Β· dir. Rouben Mamoulian
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.6horror Β· science fiction Β· dramaMax

Drama with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

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Brightburn
2019 Β· dir. David Yarovesky
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.1horror Β· science fiction Β· dramaPeacock

Contemplative science fiction in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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?

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Scanners
1981 Β· dir. David Cronenberg
πŸ… 69%β˜… 6.7science fiction Β· horrorMax

Cerebral horror, and it commits to that

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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The New Mutants
2020 Β· dir. Josh Boone
πŸ… 36%β˜… 5.3science fiction Β· horrorDisney+

Science fiction built on dread, twice over

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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Shin Godzilla
2016 Β· dir. Shinji Higuchi
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9action Β· science fiction Β· horrorMax

Drama built on unease, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into action than The Host does

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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M3GAN
2022 Β· dir. Gerard Johnstone
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· horrorNetflix

Different title, same corner of the shelf

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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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 Β· dir. Philip Kaufman
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.4science fiction Β· horror

Both working the same science fiction territory

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

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