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Movies that feel likeThe Platform 2 (2024)

After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.

If you loved The Platform 2, the closest films we have are A Quiet Place: Day One (2024), 28 Years Later (2025) and Companion (2025). All three share The Platform 2's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Pool (2018).

🍅 36% Rotten Tomatoes★ 4.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutiacerebraldreadunsettlingtense
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Platform (2019)

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

One thread runs through both: survival

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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28 Years Later
2025 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 88%★ 6.6horror · thriller · science fictionNetflix

Common ground: survival

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

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Companion
2025 · dir. Drew Hancock
🍅 93%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thrillerMax

Both land ideas and dread at once

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%★ 5.2thriller · horror

The same mix in both: unease, then tension

The difference: Easier on the ideas than The Platform 2

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 82%★ 6.5horror · action · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: horrified

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Platform 2 does

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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Color Out of Space
2020 · dir. Richard Stanley
🍅 86%★ 6.1horror · science fiction · mystery

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Platform 2 does

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
★ 5.9horror · thrillerNetflix

Thriller built on unease, twice over

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026 · dir. Jacob Chase
🍅 57%★ 6.2horror · thrillerRent or buy

Tense horror, and it commits to that

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%★ 5.3thriller · horror

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Science fiction built on unease, twice over

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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

From the 2020s, and it lands the same way

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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