Scott Derrickson’s horror romance The Gorge is an unusual movie, crossing several genres at once. As the movie was released on Valentine’s Day, it was very clear that The Gorge was being marketed at couples looking to watch something less predictable than a cozy romantic comedy. The Gorge is about two snipers who fall in love while on duty watching over a mysterious gorge. The Gorge is one of Anya Taylor Joy’s best movies yet, and her character is an embodiment of the movie’s genre mashup, being both silly and deadly, often in the same scene.
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The Gorge still has many classic romantic comedy moments, but it might make viewers argue over which genre it belongs to, as it also contains scenes that are horror and sci-fi staples. That said, mashups are almost in a class of their own, and the genre has blown up in the past ten years. The nature of a genre mashup means that these movies are often unique, and fans of The Gorge might think that similar movies would be few and far between. However, there are many options for similar movies to watch next.
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Alien (1979)
The Movie That Defined Sigourney Weaver’s Career
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Sci-Fi
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Release Date
June 22, 1979
Runtime
117 Minutes
Director
Ridley Scott
Writers
Dan O’Bannon, Ronald Shusett
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Ripley
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Dallas
Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, is a science fiction horror film that follows the crew of the commercial spacecraft Nostromo. Upon investigating a distress signal on a distant moon, they discover a deadly extraterrestrial lifeform. The film stars Sigourney Weaver as Ripley and became a seminal work in both the sci-fi and horror genres, known for its atmospheric tension and groundbreaking visual effects.
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Alien stars Sigourney Weaver as the warrant officer Ellen Ripley, who finds herself battling some of the most terrifying creatures in the sci-fi genre, often single-handedly. The movie might have a different setting and color palette from The Gorge, but it often has the same claustrophobic feeling, especially during the scenes in which we can see the creature hiding before Ripley can. Sigourney Weaver’s role in The Gorge flips her role in Alien, which is arguably the movie that defined her career, making her a sci-fi icon.
In the Alien movies, Ripley often finds herself fighting against a governing body who are aware of the threat posed by the Xenomorphs, but has chosen to study them instead of protecting civilians. In recent years, Weaver often appears as the exact opposite of Ripley, now playing the secretive government official herself. Weaver has played this character type in the alien comedy, Paul, the meta horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods, and now in The Gorge, where she gets more screen time, which is always welcome.
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Monsters (2010)
A Romance-Drama In A Quarantine Zone
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Monsters
R
Drama
Thriller
Science Fiction
8/10
Release Date
June 18, 2010
Runtime
94 Minutes
Director
Gareth Edwards
Writers
Gareth Edwards
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Scoot McNairy
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Whitney Able
Monsters is a 2010 science fiction film directed by Gareth Edwards. The story revolves around a photojournalist and a tourist navigating through an infected zone in Mexico, created after a NASA probe crash brings alien life forms to Earth. The film explores their journey amid the looming threat of extraterrestrial creatures, blending elements of drama and suspense.
Main Genre
Drama
Studio(s)
Vertigo Films, Protagonist Pictures
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Gareth Edwards’ movies tend to be visually stunning, which lends itself to the sci-fi genre. Made for just $500,000, Monsters had a much lower budget than his other large-scale productions, but this is what put Edwards on the map as a director. The story hits many of the same beats as The Gorge, with a plot involving two people and their growing romantic chemistry, with a monstrous threat looming in the background.
Monsters and The Gorge are both beautiful and terrifying, and the scenes in which the central characters navigate their new environment evoke the same sense of unease. Still, the characters are different enough that Monsters is a great movie to watch after The Gorge. While The Gorge‘s snipers, Levi and Drasa, pose a real challenge to the Hollow Men, Monsters‘ Andrew and Samantha are just trying to survive, which gives the movie less action but more suspense.
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Pirates Of The Caribbean
The Crews In The Pirates Franchise May Look Familiar
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
PG-13
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
9/10
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8.9/10
Release Date
July 9, 2003
Runtime
143 Minutes
Director
Gore Verbinski
Writers
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie, Jay Wolpert
Sequel(s)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Johnny Depp
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Geoffrey Rush
The Curse of the Black Pearl is the film that kickstarted the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, a series of supernatural swashbuckling adventures. In 1720, blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate “Captain” Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor’s daughter Elizabeth Swann, from Jack’s former pirate allies, who are now undead.
Main Genre
Adventure
Studio(s)
Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Disney
Distributor(s)
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
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The best Pirates of the Caribbean villains are unforgettable. The Curse of the Black Pearl started strong with Captain Barbossa’s undead crew, but Dead Man’s Chest created some of the scariest villains in the franchise. Davy Jones’s octopus head is creepy, but the crew of The Flying Dutchman are nightmare fuel. The doomed pirate crew appears partly human and partly made from barnacles and coral, and this disturbing blend of human and nature is used to great effect in The Gorge.
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The Hollow Men living in the gorge are victims of the mist that covers it. This mist blends their physicality with the plants and animals that originally lived in the area, creating a terrifying range of hybrids, none of whom look the same. The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise shares little with The Gorge in terms of plot, but its special effects are extremely similar. Viewers who loved The Gorge for the visual effects should watch Pirates of the Caribbean next for a closer look at similar creatures.
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Annihilation (2018)
Annihilation Is Visually Stunning And Shares A Major Plot Point With The Gorge
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Annihilation
R
Sci-Fi
Mystery
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8.2/10
Release Date
February 23, 2018
Runtime
115 Minutes
Director
Alex Garland
Writers
Alex Garland, Jeff VanderMeer
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Sonoya Mizuno
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Kola Bokinni
Alex Garland’s Annihilation is based on the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer. It follows a group of explorers – comprised of biology professor Lena (Natalie Portman), psychologist Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), physicist Josie Radek (Tessa Thompson), geomorphologist Cassie Sheppard (Tuva Nvotny), and paramedic Anya Thorensen (Gina Rodriguez) – as they enter “the Shimmer”, a quarantined zone of mutated plants and animals caused by an unknown extra-terrestrial phenomenon. Lena agrees to enter the Shimmer in search of her husband, Kane (Oscar Isaac), who was sent in as part of a special forces operation.
Main Genre
Sci-Fi
Studio(s)
Paramount Pictures
Distributor(s)
Paramount Pictures, Netflix
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The Gorge introduces its horrors relatively slowly, giving audiences a glimpse of the Hollow Men before immersing Levi and Drasa in the gorge itself, which is beautiful despite its danger. Annihilation uses a similar pacing and visual style, showing one creature at a time before the disturbing final act. Unlike many dusty and sepia post-apocalyptic movies, Annihilation uses a rainbow palette and barely explains its creatures, which are created in the same way as The Gorge‘s Hollow Men.
Annihilation stars Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac in a potentially doomed relationship, as both enter the anomaly known as “the shimmer” at different times. Annihilation poses many questions about how the creatures came to be, but the answer also applies to The Gorge. The people and creatures in both movies are affected by their DNA merging with that of the animals and plants in their surroundings, producing the hybrids in both movies.
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The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)
Scott Derrickson Developed His Visual Style In This Early Sci-Fi
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
PG-13
Drama
Science Fiction
Thriller
3/10
Release Date
December 10, 2008
Runtime
104 Minutes
Director
Scott Derrickson
Writers
David Scarpa
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Keanu Reeves
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Jennifer Connelly
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 science fiction film directed by Scott Derrickson. Starring Keanu Reeves as the alien Klaatu and Jennifer Connelly as Dr. Helen Benson, the film is a modern reimagining of the 1951 classic. Klaatu arrives on Earth to deliver a message that will affect the entire human race, prompting a scramble to understand his intentions amidst global tension.
Main Genre
Drama
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Dune Entertainment III, Earth Canada Productions, Hammerhead Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
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Scott Derrickson is best known as a horror director whose movies use his distinctive cinematic style to make many scenes beautiful even while being disturbing. This approach can be seen in The Gorge, but it emerged early on with Hellraiser: Inferno and The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Scott Derrickson developed his visual style further in his first major sci-fi movie, an ambitious remake of the sci-fi classic, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
While The Day the Earth Stood Still has been considered one of the worst sci-fi movie remakes, this is not necessarily fair. The original movie was so well-loved that any attempt to remake it would likely have drawn criticism. Like The Gorge, Scott Derrickson’s The Day the Earth Stood Still has a theme centered around saving the planet. That said, it leaves out the romance plot, giving viewers a movie with the same director and look as The Gorge, but in a different genre.
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The Mist (2007)
Lovecraftian Monsters Emerge From The Mist In This Stephen King Adaptation
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The Mist
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7.5/10
Release Date
November 21, 2007
Runtime
126 minutes
Director
Frank Darabont
Writers
Frank Darabont
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Laurie Holden
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Thomas Jane
Stephen King’s terrifying novel is brought to the screen with The Mist – a horror-thriller film directed by Frank Darabont. When a small town suddenly sees a giant rolling fog arrive, they show mere curiosity. But when people begin to die mysteriously within, several survivors hold up in a grocery store as they attempt to find a way out and survive – unfortunately, the dangers don’t just come from outside- they also come from within.
Studio(s)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributor(s)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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The Gorge saves some of its scariest monsters for toward the end of the movie, as Drasa and Levi make their way through the gorge. The two snipers discover that the more areas they explore, the more Lovecraftian the creatures grow, ending with what appears to be a hybrid human hive-mind. Like The Gorge, Stephen King’s harrowing horror story The Mist cloaks its Lovecraftian creatures from the viewer, giving audiences a sense of foreboding throughout the movie.
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The Mist is a good option for people who want to watch a scarier horror film after The Gorge. The Mist evokes a constant sense of dread throughout the movie, while The Gorge only begins to do this when Drasa and Levi are in the gorge itself. That said, the ending of The Mist is infamous for being one of the most heartbreaking of any horror movie, and there is no romantic happy ending here.
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Love And Monsters (2020)
A Post-Apocalyptic Romance With Comedy
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Love and Monsters
PG-13
Comedy
Adventure
6/10
9.2/10
Release Date
October 16, 2020
Runtime
108 minutes
Director
Michael Matthews
Writers
Brian Duffield, Matthew Robinson
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Ariana Greenblatt
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Te Kohe Tuhaka
The post-apocalyptic movie Love and Monsters follows a young man who sets out to find his girlfriend in a monster-infested world seven years after the apocalypse. Dylan O’Brien and Jessica Henwick star, with Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing, and and Ariana Greenblatt in supporting roles.
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Paramount Pictures
Distributor(s)
Paramount Pictures, Netflix
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Love and Monsters contains many of the same elements as The Gorge, including a love story, some elaborate and inventive monsters, and several funny scenes. This makes the two movies an excellent option for a double-feature movie night. That said, Love and Monsters and The Gorge are still two extremely different movies. There is much more comedy in Love and Monsters, which stars Dylan O’Brien as a young man on a mission to find his girlfriend after an apocalypse has kept them apart for seven years.
Love and Monsters still has a 94% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes, and was nominated for an Academy Award for its visual effects. The monsters are just as interesting as the ones in The Gorge, and the movie looks like a much higher-budget production than it was. As the ending is not the typically satisfying scene that is found in most romances, viewers have understandably been looking out for a Love and Monsters sequel. This has not happened yet but has not been ruled out.
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Last Sentinel (2023)
A Platoon Of Soldiers Defend An Abandoned Military Base
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Last Sentinel
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Drama
Sci-Fi
Thriller
Release Date
March 24, 2023
Runtime
117 minutes
Director
Tanel Toom
Writers
Malachi Smyth
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Kate Bosworth
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Lucien Laviscount
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Thomas Kretschmann
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Martin McCann
Last Sentinel is a 2023 sci-fi thriller set in the near future (via the 2020s), where climate change’s threat has become a reality, with billions dead and only two continents remain above sea level. Four soldiers remain the last of their kind, protecting what’s left of their home. However, when months pass and only a strange boat arrives, the crew soon finds themselves in a dangerous situation.
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Vertical Entertainment
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Kate Bosworth’s military drama, Last Sentinel, shares a similar setting to The Gorge. Set on a slightly futuristic Earth, climate change has caused the sea levels to rise, leaving just two large continents. A skeleton crew of soldiers are divided among the last outposts, waiting to defend humanity from an unseen enemy, though their mission officially should have ended three months previously. Just as the tension in The Gorge begins to increase over time, the crew in Last Sentinel is disrupted when a sinister boat comes into view.
Viewers who preferred the claustrophobia and tension at the beginning of The Gorge should watch Last Sentinel next for a similar feeling, but with a much more bleak outlook. The sci-fi elements are few in Last Sentinel, and the bigger threat to humanity is humanity rather than hidden monsters. This difference makes it seem like an alternate future for The Gorge, and a more realistic one.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
A Trained Assassin Couple Shows Off Their Skills Against Each Other
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
PG-13
Crime
Action
Comedy
Thriller
Release Date
June 10, 2005
Runtime
120 minutes
Director
Doug Liman
Writers
Simon Kinberg
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Keith David
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Angelina Jolie
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Kerry Washington
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Vince Vaughn
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a romantic comedy action film that follows a married couple who discover that they’re both assassins after years of maintaining a false relationship for cover when John and Jane discover on a hit job that they both have the same target, the failed mission results in the discovery that they’re both assigned to different agencies. Now tasked with eliminating one another, the two engage in a darkly comedic battle where they soon begin to fall in love – for real, this time.
Studio(s)
20th Century
Distributor(s)
20th Century, Summit Entertainment
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There are disappointingly few movies that feature an equally matched couple with dangerous skills, but both The Gorge and Mr. & Mrs. Smith keep them at the center of the story. The controversy surrounding Mr. & Mrs. Smith often overshadows its plot as it is the movie that brought Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie together. However, the film itself is fun, with some excellent stunt scenes. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is about two married undercover assassins who don’t know about each other’s secret identities.
The central relationship in Mr. & Mrs. Smith is often hilarious, with the couple going to extreme lengths to hide their real lives from each other. The tension in the movie comes when the two assassins are hired to kill each other, and while this also happens in The Gorge, the ending of Mr. & Mrs. Smith is very different. For viewers wanting a movie with more romance, it’s a good one to watch next.
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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Quentin Tarantino’s Monster-Filled Genre Mashup
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From Dusk Till Dawn
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Action
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Crime
6/10
4/10
Release Date
January 19, 1996
Runtime
108 minutes
Director
Robert Rodriguez
Writers
Quentin Tarantino
Franchise(s)
From Dusk Till Dawn
Cast
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Quentin Tarantino
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Juliette Lewis
From Dusk Till Dawn is a horror movie directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino. It follows criminal brothers Seth and Richie Gecko (George Clooney and Tarantino), who take a family hostage in a bar that turns out to be a haven for vampires. The film also stars Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, and Salma Hayek, and has since become a cult classic.
Studio(s)
Dimension Films
Distributor(s)
MiraMax
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One of the best genre mashup movies of all time is surely From Dusk Till Dawn, which saw Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez collaborating on a horror Western. From Dusk Till Dawn begins deceptively, appearing to be a Western crime story about two brothers on the run from the law, until the brothers find themselves in a saloon bar and defending themselves from its resident vampires. The switch between genres is far from seamless, but this adds to the fun of the movie.
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Combining multiple genres can often produce exciting movies, and while The Gorge‘s romance element meant that there was a predictably happy ending, the choice to put romantic comedy scenes in a monster movie worked well. Both From Dusk Till Dawn and The Gorge are fun to watch and genuinely terrifying at times. For a similarly unusual blend of genres that don’t appear to fit together but end up working extremely well, From Dusk To Dawn is the best movie to watch after The Gorge.
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The Gorge
PG-13
Action
Romance
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6/10
Release Date
February 28, 2025
Runtime
127 Minutes
Director
Scott Derrickson
Writers
Zach Dean
Producers
Gregory Goodman, C. Robert Cargill, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, Don Granger, Miles Teller, Sherryl Clark, Adam Kolbrenner
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Miles Teller
Levi
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Anya Taylor-Joy
Drasa
The Gorge follows two elite snipers assigned to guard opposite sides of a deep, impenetrable gorge. As they undertake their mysterious mission, they remain unaware of what lies beneath them, testing their skills and resolve in this suspense-filled narrative.
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