Here are Cinephile Corner’s 10 recommendations for movies like Onslaught:
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
If Onslaught’s desert carnage and tough-as-nails heroine are what won you over, George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the natural next stop. Anya Taylor-Joy takes over the title role from Charlize Theron, and Chris Hemsworth goes big as the warlord Dementus. Nearly a decade after Fury Road, Miller proves this prequel was worth the wait.
Sinners
Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is one of the best recent examples of a movie that starts as one genre and turns into a full-blown horror siege. Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers who open a juke joint in 1930s Mississippi, only for the night to end in a bloody fight for survival. It has bite, brains, and soul.
John Wick: Chapter 4
For sheer body count, few modern franchises can compete with John Wick. Chad Stahelski’s fourth chapter is the series at its most ambitious, with gorgeously lit set pieces, a scene-stealing Donnie Yen, and Keanu Reeves gunning his way across the globe. It’s a certified work of art for action fans.
Hit Man
Adria Arjona has been on the verge of a breakout for a while, and Richard Linklater’s Hit Man is where she made it obvious. Glen Powell stars as a mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake contract killer for the police, but it’s Arjona who runs laps around him. The film itself left us a little cold, but she’s the reason to watch.
Cuckoo
Dan Stevens has a gift for playing unnerving weirdos, and his turn as the peculiar Herr König in Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo is a great example. Hunter Schafer stars as Gretchen, a teenager dragged to the Alps after her mother’s death, where things get strange fast. The story doesn’t fully hold together, but the eerie imagery and Schafer’s committed physical performance more than make up for it.
Love Lies Bleeding
Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding is another grimy, pulpy A24 genre movie set in the American Southwest. Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian play lovers whose chance meeting at a rundown gym spirals into murder, family feuds, and chases, with Ed Harris as a truly menacing patriarch. It’s daring and unlike anything else, even when the script drifts.
Sisu
Jalmari Helander’s Sisu shares Onslaught’s love of a lone fighter who simply refuses to die. Jorma Tommila plays Aatami, a gold prospector in World War II-era Lapland who takes on an entire platoon of Nazi soldiers after they steal his haul. It’s a bleak, lean entry in a crowded genre that delivers exactly what it promises.
M3GAN 2.0
Military-grade killing machines escaping their handlers is the engine of M3GAN 2.0 too. Gerard Johnstone’s sequel swaps the original’s horror for a Terminator-style action romp, as Allison Williams’ Gemma revives M3GAN to take down Amelia, a weaponized android built from her stolen code. It’s breezier and dumber than the first film, but intermittently very entertaining.
Predator: Killer of Killers
Dan Trachtenberg’s animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers pits a Viking raider, a feudal Japanese swordsman, and a World War II pilot against the franchise’s iconic hunters. It isn’t a knockout, but it’s a welcome risk for the series, with plenty of gnarly violence for anyone craving more of Onslaught’s gonzo energy.
Predator: Badlands
Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands flips the formula, following a young Yautja named Dek as he hunts an unkillable creature to prove himself, with Elle Fanning as a damaged android companion. It’s a disappointment that plays more like cosplay than a real Predator movie, but the hostile-planet survival setup scratches a similar itch.
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