Movies Like Resident Evil (2026): Outbreak & Survival Horror

Start with the original live-action film if the combination of corporate secrecy, an enclosed facility and escalating biological danger is what appeals. Its action-led approach offers a useful point of comparison with the new film's published survival premise. It begins the earlier Alice film series; it is not required preparation for the 2026 reboot.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Earlier film series · Contained outbreak · Action horror.

The closest fit when you want a small space to become progressively harder to escape. A television crew enters an apartment building and finds that the emergency has rules nobody understands yet. The hand-held viewpoint keeps you with people who have limited information, and its roughly 78-minute length leaves little time to relax.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Spanish · Quarantine · Intense found footage.

Choose this for the wider aftermath of infection rather than a secret-laboratory adventure. Empty London streets give way to a journey in which other people can be as difficult to judge as the infected. The danger feels exposed and unpredictable; expect harsh violence, disturbing material and sexual threat.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: British · Societal collapse · Survival journey.

For the fear that a familiar town has become impossible to trust. A small community's emergency develops into a struggle with both an infection and the response meant to contain it. This is the 2010 remake: a good companion when the isolated-town part of Resident Evil's new premise interests you more than the game connections.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Small-town outbreak · Containment · Paranoia.

For fast-moving outbreak horror where cooperation has an immediate cost. Train carriages turn distance, doors and crowd behaviour into survival decisions, while a father and daughter give the action its emotional focus. It is longer than the short films elsewhere on this site and best chosen when you have the whole evening free.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: South Korean · Moving siege · Emotional stakes.

Choose this for the science-fiction side of survival horror: waking inside an unfamiliar spacecraft and having to understand the environment while something dangerous occupies it. It shares the appeal of scarce information and hostile corridors, rather than a straightforward virus-outbreak plot. Expect a grim atmosphere and creature violence.

This belongs on your list when the brief is: Spacecraft · Creature horror · Disorientation.