Movies like Extinction
If Extinction's mix of mutant, zombie and zombie apocalypse stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Extinction's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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World War Z
2013 · Directed by Marc Forster · 116 min6.9
Why you'll like itWith Matthew Fox · Shares: zombie, zombie apocalypse · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (2010s)
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies.
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Dawn of the Dead
2004 · Directed by Zack Snyder · 101 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: zombie, zombie apocalypse · Also horror and science fiction
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.
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Resident Evil
2002 · Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson · 100 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: mutant, zombie · Also horror and science fiction
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…
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28 Years Later
2025 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 115 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: zombie, zombie apocalypse · Also horror and thriller
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…
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Die Alone
2024 · Directed by Lowell Dean · 91 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: zombie, zombie apocalypse · Also horror and thriller
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma.
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2004 · Directed by Alexander Witt · 94 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: mutant, zombie · Also horror and science fiction
As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice finds out that the people that died from the previous incident at the Umbrella Corporation have turned into zombies.
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Resident Evil: Extinction
2007 · Directed by Russell Mulcahy · 94 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: mutant, zombie · Also horror and science fiction
Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
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Land of the Dead
2005 · Directed by George A. Romero · 93 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: zombie, zombie apocalypse · Also horror and science fiction
The living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.
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Eraserhead
1977 · Directed by David Lynch · 89 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: mutant · Also horror and science fiction
First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014 · Directed by Bryan Singer · 132 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: mutant, dramatic · From the same decade (2010s)
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
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The Thing
1982 · Directed by John Carpenter · 109 min8.1
Why you'll like itAlso horror and science fiction
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.