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If you liked Annihilation (2018) you might want to check out The Gorge (2025)

I'm going to start off by saying I would recommend watching The Gorge as blind as you can. The trailer doesn't spoil much but it does reveal the framework and direction of the story. If you like the 'vibe' or setting of Annihilation though you may like it.

If you don't mind a bit of a reveal this is what I mean by the last part:

Here's what I liked and disliked about the movie (real spoilers):

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I liked The Gorge because Anya was great in it.

The Gorge tried to emulate some of the visual aspects of Annihilation in terms of the colour pallette, but ::: spoiler spoiler unlike the latter The Gorge completely neutralised the cosmic dread by trying to explain the horrors with pseudoscience. And it was baaad pseudoscience. Like the mutagen being "in the fog", which is gas coming from missiles (predating the V2 rockets??) that have been... belching it since the mid 40s?? Bullets and knives/sabres being alternatively ineffective and 100% deadly to the horrors, gas and affected creatures being magically contained to the gorge, him not being able to bring personal effects yes her having a record player and loudspeaker with her preferred music present, those "satellite cloaking signals"...
Plus, I dislike horror films where the protagonists survive in the end. It completely nullifies the dread. :::

Annihilation is one of my favorite movies and I honestly thought The Gorge is just a throwaway movie that isn’t worth watching. Your post will definitely make me watch it now. Thanks for the recommendation.
EDIT: Just watched it. It’s meh. It does have a similar setting with Annihilation, but that’s about it. Not even the vibe is similar as OP mentioned. The film didn’t know what genre it was supposed to be, and there were some pretty big plotholes towards the end. It’s an ok watch maybe if you don’t have anything else to do, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch it if I were you.

I liked the book Annihilation more than the movie.

I'll give it a watch. I Annihilation was such a wonderful mix of music and visuals

goddammit. i feel so betrayed by this movie and by the seductive trailers for this movie and by any and all positive reviews of this movie (including yours).
it was such a shitty movie. booooooOOO
- What didn't you like about it?
  It's not a movie I'll likely watch several times like I have with Annihilation but I thought it was good and had memorable moments. That's a lot more than I can say about other movies I've watched recently.

Once I got to the blind statement in your post, I stopped reading. I love annihilation, and have had the gorge on my radar.
Will hopefully be watching it tonight. Looks like you can do a free trial or apple + via prime. I thought it was on Tubi, sadly not. Also looks like it may be on some streaming sites
Thanks for the recommendation.
- I'd be interested to hear what you think and if you felt it was a fair comparison.

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