If You Liked The Thing, Watch These Next
Finished The Thing (1982) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Thing, most of them are horror, mystery, science fiction.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.The Thing(2011)
6.3HorrorScience FictionMysteryAlso horror and science fiction
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia…
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2.Alien: Romulus(2024)
7.2HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
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3.Alien: Covenant(2017)
6.2HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.
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5.Prometheus(2012)
6.6Science FictionMysteryHorrorAlso science fiction and mystery
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
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6.Event Horizon(1997)
6.6HorrorScience FictionMysteryAlso horror and science fiction
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
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7.Body Snatchers(1993)
6.2HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti befriends Jean Platt, daughter of the base's commander, General Platt. When people at the…
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8.Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978)
7.2Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
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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9.Sphere(1998)
6.1Science FictionMysteryThrillerAlso science fiction and mystery
A spacecraft is discovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, presumed to be at least 300 years old and of alien origin. A crack team of scientists and experts is assembled and taken to the ocean floor to investigate. However, the ship is not as it seems and when a giant perfect sphere is discovered in the cargo…
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10.Pandorum(2009)
6.6ActionHorrorMysteryAlso horror and mystery
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.
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11.Extinction(2015)
6.3HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso horror and science fiction
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
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12.Annihilation(2018)
6.5Science FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
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13.Books of Blood(2020)
6.3HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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14.Primitive War(2025)
6.6ActionHorrorWarAlso horror and science fiction
During the Vietnam War, a recon unit ventures to an isolated jungle valley to uncover the fate of a missing platoon. They soon find themselves in a fight for their lives against an unexpected enemy — prehistoric dinosaurs.
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15.The Fly(1986)
7.4HorrorScience FictionAlso horror and science fiction
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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16.The Void(2016)
6.0MysteryHorrorScience FictionAlso mystery and horror
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror…
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17.Color Out of Space(2020)
6.1HorrorScience FictionMysteryAlso horror and science fiction
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.…
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18.The Mist(2007)
7.0HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso horror and science fiction
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. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
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19.The Invisible Man(2020)
7.1ThrillerScience FictionHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
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20.A Quiet Place Part II(2021)
7.4Science FictionThrillerHorrorAlso science fiction and horror
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
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