Movies like Things
If Things's mix of monster, experiment and pregnancy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Things's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Fly
1986 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 96 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: monster, experiment · From the same decade (1980s)
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself.
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Dawn of the Dead
2004 · Directed by Zack Snyder · 101 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: pregnancy, gore
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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The Mist
2007 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 126 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: monster, giant insect
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents.
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Alien
1979 · Directed by Ridley Scott · 117 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: parasite
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a…
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Anything for Jackson
2020 · Directed by Justin G. Dyck · 96 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: pregnancy
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.
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The Brood
1979 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 92 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: canuxploitation
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
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Shivers
1975 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 88 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: parasite
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.