Want to freak yourself out during the quarantine? Watch the following films to see the absolute worst-case scenarios of a global pandemic:
20 Worst Movies to Watch During the Quarantine
12 Monkeys (1995)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe
Available on Netflix
Convict James Cole decides to volunteer for a mission, where he has to travel back in time to learn about the main reason behind the outbreak of a virulent holocaust.
Train to Busan (2016)
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Cast: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu Mi, Ma Dong-Seok
Seok-woo and his daughter are on a train to Busan on the latter’s birthday to see his wife. However, the journey turns into a nightmare when they are trapped amidst a zombie outbreak in South Korea.
Contagion (2011)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Available on YouTube
The deaths of Beth Emhoff and her son lead to the discovery of a deadly virus. While the US Centers for Disease Control struggles to curb its spread, worldwide panic ensues.
World War Z (2013)
Director: Marc Foster
Cast: Brad Pitt, David Morse, James Badge Dale
Available on Netflix
Gerry, a former United Nations employee, unexpectedly finds himself in a race against time as he investigates a threatening virus that turns humans into zombies.
Outbreak (1995)
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman
When a deadly virus carried by a monkey host from the African rainforest starts infecting the entire population, a handful of scientists struggle to find a cure.
I am Legend (2008)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Cast: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan
Available on Netflix
Scientist Robert Neville is the last human survivor of a plague in the entirety of New York. He attempts to find a way to reverse the effects of the man-made virus by using his own immune blood.
28 Days Later (2003)
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns
Available on YouTube
After a mysterious virus wreaks havoc in the United Kingdom, a team of survivors tries to cope with the aftermath of the disaster and find security.
Carriers (2009)
Director: Alex Pastor, David Pastor
Cast: Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Emily Vancamp
Available on YouTube
Danny and Brian along with their friends Bobby and Kate embark on a trip to escape a pandemic. However, one of them gets infected by the endangering virus.
Cabin Fever (2003)
Director: Eli Roth
Cast: Eli Roth, Rider Strong, Jordan Ladd
A group of school friends rent a cabin in the woods and kill an ailing man, whose disease spreads among them, forcing them to take drastic measures to survive.
Flu (2013)
Director: Kim Sung-su
Cast: Soo Ae, Jang Hyun, Park Min-ha
Chaos ensues after a lethal airborne virus infects the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometers away from Seoul.
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Tom Savini, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger
Available on Netflix
Survivors of an epidemic that causes the infected to turn into flesh-eating zombies take refuge in a shopping mall. In addition to battling the undead, they also have to tackle problems from within.
Virus (2019)
Director: Aashiq Abu
Cast: Parvathy Thiruvothu, Tovino Thomas, Rima Kallingal
The state of Kerala faces a tremendous outbreak of the life-threatening Nipah virus. A group of courageous individuals risk their lives in an attempt to curb the epidemic.
Cargo (2017)
Director: Yolanda Ramke, Ben Howling
Cast: Martin Freeman, Susie Porter, Simone Landers
Available on Netflix
Stranded in rural Australia in the aftermath of a violent pandemic, an infected father desperately searches for a new home for his infant child and a means to protect her from his own changing nature.
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Director: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Edgar Wright
Available on Netflix
Shaun is a salesman whose life has no direction. His uneventful life takes a sudden turn when he has to singlehandedly deal with an entire community of zombies.
Quarantine (2008)
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Cast: Jennifer Carpenter, Jay Hernandez, Columbus Short
Available on Netflix
Angela, a reporter, and Scott, her cameraman, find themselves locked inside a building quarantined by the CDC when humans in it turn into zombies after getting infected by a virus.
Deranged (2012)
Director: Park Jung-woo
Cast: Kim Myung-min, Moon Jeong-hee, Kim Dong-wan
Jae-hyuk tries to find a cure after his wife and children come down with a mysterious infection that causes people to drown themselves.
Bird Box (2018)
Director: Susanne Bier
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Sarah Paulson
Available on Netflix
When a mysterious force decimates the population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you die. The survivors must avoid coming face to face with an entity that takes the form of their worst fears. Searching for hope and a new beginning, a woman and her children embark on a dangerous journey through the woods and down a river to find the one place that may offer sanctuary. To make it, they’ll have to cover their eyes from the evil that chases them and complete the trip blindfolded.
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Director: Juan Carlo Fresnadillo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner
Available on Netflix
Six months after the Rage virus turned half of Britain into zombies, the US Army helps secure London for the survivors after a carrier of the virus enters the city and the horror begins once again.
The Happening (2008)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, M. Night Shyamalan
Available on YouTube
A family is on the run as America is swept by a mysterious toxin in the air that causes people to kill themselves.
The Night Eats The World (2018)
Director: Dominique Rocher
Cast: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant
After waking up in an apartment the night after a raging party, Sam comes face to face with his new reality: an army of zombies has invaded the streets of Paris, and he is one of the lone survivors. Petrified with fear, he barricades himself inside the building to survive. He wonders how long he can last in silence and solitude, and the answer comes when he learns that he’s not all alone after all.
