Movies like The Thaw (2009)
The best movies like The Thaw (2009) are Blood and Snow (2023), They Nest (2000) and The Last Winter (2006). If The Thaw hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Mist (2007)7.0/10 from 6,196 votes
- NewestScurry (2025)Released 2025
Blood and Snow (2023)
When researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Nest (2000)
After freezing up under pressure in the emergency room, Dr. Cahill decides to spend a few months unwinding on a little Maine island where he immediately gets off on the wrong foot with the locals. Meanwhile, a body has washed up on shore infested with a strange type of carnivorous cockroach. But when Dr. Cahill tries to warn the townsfolk of the danger, they are naturally skeptical. Will they realize the truth before it's too late?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Winter (2006)
In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood Glacier (2013)
At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHarbinger Down (2015)
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation. Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give up the warmth of human companionship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisSplinter (2008)
When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. Along the way, they encounter an increasingly terrifying horde of parasites, and if any of them intend to survive, they'll have to outsmart the deadly organisms.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ruins (2008)
Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeneath (2013)
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIsolation (2005)
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisIsland Zero (2018)
A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone – or something – is hunting them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mist (2007)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlack Mountain Side (2016)
A group of archaeologists working in Northern Canada uncover a strange structure dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team soon finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and they begin to feel the effects of solitude.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisZygote (2017)
The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hive (2015)
An amnesiac must reach back into his mind for memories that will help him save the love of his life before a virus completely takes over.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Facility (2012)
A group of volunteers find themselves fighting for their lives when a drug trial goes horribly wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisWind Chill (2007)
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCabin Fever (2016)
While staying at a remote cabin for a week-long vacation, a group of five college friends succumb to an infectious, flesh-eating disease.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMulberry Street (2006)
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisScurry (2025)
Two strangers find themselves trapped underground when the city is attacked by a monstrous threat. Badly injured with limited resources they must navigate a treacherous, narrowing tunnel in hopes of finding an exit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Altered (2006)
Fifteen years ago, five men were abducted by aliens. Only four returned. Now, these same four men have managed to capture one of the creatures who killed their friend and ruined their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bay (2012)
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCabin Fever (2003)
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTooth and Nail (2007)
In a post-apocalyptic world, a small group of survivors, who call themselves Foragers, plan to rebuild civilization from their headquarters in an empty hospital based in what is left of Philadelphia. But they're soon forced into a face-off war with the Rovers, another gang of survivors whom are a brutal gang of cannibals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisParasite (2004)
An abandoned oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Dr. Christine Hansen is charged with the task of testing an experimental cleaning fluid which could revolutionize the oil industry. Hired to carry out the tests is Jacob Rasmussen and his rough and ready crew of deconstruction engineers. But within hours one of them is missing under suspicious circumstances. Things go from bad to worse when environmental activist Mickey Hennessey and his hard-bitten associates seize control of the rig, taking everybody on board hostage. But very soon oil workers and environmentalists will be compelled to join forces in an evolutionary battle for survival. For a savage new life-form has made its home on the rig. And it is hungry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Unnatural (2015)
Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears with horrific and deadly results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWicked Little Things (2006)
Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLaboratory Conditions (2018)
A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTen Minutes to Midnight (2020)
A late night radio host is trapped inside the station by a violent storm after being bitten by a rabid bat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Devil's Gate (2018)
Set in the small town of Devil's Gate, North Dakota, the film examines the disappearance of a local woman and her young son. Schull plays an FBI agent who helps the local sheriff search for answers. Partnering with a deputy , they track down the missing woman's husband and find that nothing is as it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisSasquatch Mountain (2006)
A lonely tow-truck driver gets caught in a deadly struggle between a pair of bank robbers with a beautiful hostage, local cops, and a monster that has come down from the Arizona mountains to eat human flesh.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Thaw?
The closest matches to The Thaw are Blood and Snow (2023), They Nest (2000) and The Last Winter (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Thaw?
People who watched The Thaw most often go on to Blood and Snow (2023), They Nest (2000) and The Last Winter (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Thaw?
The Mist (2007), rated 7.0/10 by 6,196 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Thaw?
Scurry (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Thaw?
Yes: Blood and Snow (2023), They Nest (2000) and The Last Winter (2006).
How are movies similar to The Thaw chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Thaw, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.