Movies like Zygote (2017)
The best movies like Zygote (2017) are Galaxy of Horrors (2024), Blood and Snow (2023) and Rakka (2017). If Zygote 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 ratedRakka (2017)7.0/10 from 362 votes
- NewestOsiris (2025)Released 2025
- Same seriesRakka (2017)Oats Studios Shorts
Galaxy of Horrors (2024)
Trapped in a damaged cryogenic pod, a man is forced to watch a series of horrific science-fiction tales while his life support systems run out. Featuring eight intense stories of the unknown and other-worldly, equally wonderful and terrifying. Visit the GALAXY OF HORRORS, if you dare! Curated from Rue Morgue & Unstable Ground's Little Terrors Festival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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 thisRakka (2017)
A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.
Why it matches: Same series: Oats Studios Shorts · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlood Machines (2020)
An artificial intelligence escapes her spaceship to turn into a female ghost and challenges two blade runners to a galactic chase.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOats Studios: Volume 1 (2021)
A compilation of shorts, diverse experimental content and more weird stuff spread directly from the devious mind of the South African film director Neill Blomkamp. Includes: Rakka, Firebase, Zygote, Kapture-Fluke, Cooking with Bill, Praetoria, God and Gdansk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
The Thaw (2009)
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlinky™ (2011)
A story about a boy, his robot and the consequences of his anger at the disintegration of his parents marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlien: Alone (2019)
An abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonsters (2015)
Jenn lives in an underground bunker, protected from the monsters that now ravage the world. This is the day that she goes outside...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Manborg (2011)
The evil Count Draculon and his army of demons have conquered Earth, but a young soldier who lost his life in the first war against Hell has reawakened in the future as MANBORG! Together with a crew of post-apocalyptic rebels, the half-man half-machine hero will fight to defeat Draculon and take back the planet!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDepraved (2019)
A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlien: Harvest (2019)
The surviving crew of a damaged space harvester has a motion sensor as their only navigation tool leading them to safety, while a creature in the shadows terrorizes them. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCorporate Monster (2019)
After being phased out of his job, a dangerously unstable man’s life spirals out of control when the prescription pills he takes start to have a side effect: they allow him to see the parasitic beings that have long been puppeteering our world from the shadows.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
The Last Days on Mars (2013)
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCritters: Bounty Hunter (2014)
An alien bounty hunter enters a scene of suburban carnage, where something out of this world has been feeding on humans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Alien: Ore (2019)
When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and fight for the safety of her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightmare Cinema (2018)
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlash/Back (2022)
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShadows on the Wall (2014)
A modern day sci-fi about Palmer Marshall, a struggling engineering student that’s flailing through his personal life, classes, and career. Palmer is on the cusp of a potentially huge discovery and he devotes every waking moment to the challenging, and often fruitless, pursuit of creating something that might change the world. But Palmer soon learns that the road to success is long and fraught with failure. Despite crippling anxiety and personality disorders, Palmer perseveres and creates the one – the dream machine that he’ll be remembered for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Extraterrestrial (2014)
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisEcho Torch (2016)
An inventor creates an electrical torch that reveals a hidden world layered upon our own - filled with beautiful spirits, strange creatures, and dangerous phantoms.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
The Void (2016)
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 intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlien: Specimen (2019)
During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdam: The Prophet (2017)
What are you willing to do, to be saved? Oats Studios presents a new chapter of ADAM and a new tribe of human survivors in this post-apocalyptic world. Created entirely in real time using Unity, check out Episode 3.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlien Invasion: S.U.M.1 (2017)
An aggressive race of aliens took over Planet Earth and humanity's at its end, living in giant bunkers below ground. Young Military rookie S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) is sent to the surface to save a group of unprotected survivors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMonster Hunters (2020)
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual combat, the battle for Earth will be brutal.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Light (2019)
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOsiris (2025)
Special Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYear 10 (2024)
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlien: Night Shift (2019)
When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker’s condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker alone to take matters into her own hands. Alien: Night Shift is one of six short films produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary of 1979's Alien.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Zygote?
The closest matches to Zygote are Galaxy of Horrors (2024), Blood and Snow (2023) and Rakka (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Zygote?
People who watched Zygote most often go on to Galaxy of Horrors (2024), Blood and Snow (2023) and Blood Machines (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like Zygote?
Rakka (2017), rated 7.0/10 by 362 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Zygote?
Osiris (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Zygote part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Oats Studios Shorts, which includes Rakka (2017).
Are there English movies like Zygote?
Yes: Galaxy of Horrors (2024), Blood and Snow (2023) and Rakka (2017).
How are movies similar to Zygote chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Zygote, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.