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  'http://laksa192.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
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  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/best-quarantine-virus-movies/\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/best-quarantine-virus-movies/\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/best-quarantine-virus-movies\/","crawl_time":1775910718,"first_indexed_time":1584759154,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,denofgeek!www,\/movies\/best-quarantine-virus-movies\/ s443","src_root_hash":"13977860436572702792","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Best Pandemic and Virus Outbreak Movies to Stream While You're in Quarantine | Den of Geek","meta_descriptions":["Stay home, lock the doors, and get nice and cosy with these great quarantine, virus, and infection movies."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"By\nRosie Fletcher\n,\nDon Kaye\n|\nMarch 20, 2020\n|\nHorror movies are the perfect place to explore our fears in the safety of our own homes. So it stands to reason that since we’re all stuck self-isolating in our own homes we should want to explore our abject terror of the COVID-19 virus driving ordinarily sane people to stockpile booze and toilet paper outside.\nPerhaps it’s a fascination with the movies that predicted how a pandemic would play out that put\nSteven Soderberg’s\nContagion\nin the top ten most rented list on iTunes. Maybe it’s watching characters you can relate to dealing with a brand new disease in a story that’s ultimately fiction that has landed\nOutbreak\nin the Netflix top ten.\nIt’s not surprising we suddenly seem to have an appetite for infection and quarantine movies, so here are some of the best ones and where you can stream them from home.\n12 Monkeys\n(1995)\nIn Terry Gilliam’s masterful sci-fi fable, an unbalanced prisoner named Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to 1996 from 2035, where the remnants of humanity live underground. His mission: to find and procure a sample of the virus that wiped out civilization so that future scientists can study it and find a cure. Based on the French short film\nLa Jetee\n,\n12 Monkeys\nis about the way that human intellect and emotion can distort time and reality, and its vision of a fading society buried underground by the spread of a pathogen is a chilling central metaphor. \nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\n,\nHulu\n28 Days Later (2002)\nThe seminal ‘running zombie’ movie from Danny Boyle finds a place on the list, where other zombie films may not because of its clarity that the outbreak is caused by animals infected with a virus These aren’t reanimated undead, but sick people. The virus is nicknamed ‘rage’ and sees the infected become insanely violent and highly contagious. Our hero is Cillian Murphy, unaware of the virus because of a stint in hospital in a coma, who finds London a deserted wasteland just 28 days after the outbreak began.\nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\n,\nHulu\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nThe Andromeda Strain\n(1971)\nBased on Michael Crichton’s best selling 1969 novel,\nThe Andromeda Strain\nchronicles the desperate efforts of a team of four scientists to solve the mystery of a fast-mutating extraterrestrial virus before it can spread throughout the world. The claustrophobic underground lab setting makes the film feel intimate even as the ramifications of the Andromeda organism are catastrophic and terrifying. Directed with pulse-pounding urgency by the great Robert Wise, the film’s focus on science makes it that much more realistic — and frightening. \nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nThe Bay (2013)\nOscar winner Barry Levinson (\nRain Man\n) is the unexpected director of this underrated eco-horror which sees a coastal Maryland town infected by a flesh eating fish parasite. A found footage movie with several strands told via local reporting, phone footage, social media, and police surveillance it’s a cautionary tale which Levinson says is largely based on fact.\nWatch in the US on:\nShudder\nWatch in the UK on:\n \nAmazon Prime\nBlindness\n(2008)\nA highly communicable disease renders much of the world’s population blind in this film from director Fernando Meirelles (\nThe Two Popes\n) based on Jose Saramago’s novel. None of the characters — in a cast led by Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo — are named, as the film follows the book’s metaphorical nature while not shying away from the atrocities that occur as civilization collapses. Less about science and more about human nature,\nBlindness\nsuggests that humanity will need to adapt different perspectives to survive a global catastrophe — a lesson worth remembering as we work our way through the COVID-19 crisis. \nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nCabin Fever (2003)\nWhat’s that you say? You’ve got Cabin Fever? Thank your lucky stars it’s not this kind! Eli Roth’s feature debut was this comedy horror which sees a group of kids vacationing in a cabin attacked by a flesh eating virus. It’s extremely gory and gross (that leg shaving scene, eesh), but it’s also quite funny and sharp in how it plays with horror tropes.\nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\nWatch in the UK on:\nSTARZPLAY\n,\nAmazon Prime\nCarriers (2009)\nChris Pine stars in this post-apocalyptic road movie which sees a virus wipe out much of the population. An as yet uninfected foursome head out to a small resort they believe is plague-free where they plan to wait out the pandemic. On the way they encounter desperate survivors and dangerous factions and eventually turn on each other. Not the most cheerful of the movies on this list.\nWatch in the US on:\nNetflix\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nChildren of Men\n(2006)\nDirector Alfonso Cuaron’s modern classic could well be the most frightening film on this list in many ways — because of both Cuaron’s hyper-realistic style of filmmaking and because its world is so recognizably our own in many ways. With an unknown malady preventing the birth of any new children for 18 years (following a global flu pandemic), the world is on the brink of societal collapse. Only one lone young woman — who is somehow pregnant — provides a beacon of hope against a storm of despair. The film’s lasting theme of faith against all odds may end up being a balm in these uncertain days.\nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\n,\nHulu\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nContagion (2011)\nSteven Soderbergh’s realistic depiction of what might happen in the wake of a pandemic sees doctors struggling to identify the cause of a deadly virus and attempt to develop a vaccine while cities are under quarantine, false reports are causing panic buying, and supplies of the inoculation aren’t sufficient to treat everyone at risk. Featuring an all star cast including Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow it’s a classy and slightly terrifying look outside our own window.\nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\nLatest Movie reviews\nWatch in the UK on:\nNetflix,\nAmazon Prime\nThe Crazies (1973\/2010)\nLegendary director George A. Romero (\nNight of the Living Dead\n) made the original\nCrazies\nin 1973, focusing on a small town decimated by a biological weapon and finished off by the incompetence of the government that tries to contain the outbreak. Romero’s film was crudely made but razor-sharp in its skewering of the bureaucratic and military mindset; a 2010 remake from director Breck Eisner is less satirical, more polished and intense, and in the end, more effective. Both are worth a watch. \nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\n(both free for Prime members; 2010 version available to rent\/buy)\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime (2010)\nIt Comes At Night (2017)\nDespite what the misleading trailer suggested this is\nnot\na zombie movie, but it\nis\nan infection film, of sorts, which sees a couple and their teenage son self isolating in the woods because of an unseen threat that’s taken over the world. But when a young couple and their child arrive seeking refuge the family’s domestic stability is shaken. Metaphorical, intelligent, and scary,\nIt Comes at Night\nis one bleak quarantine movie.\nWatch in the US on:\nNetflix\nWatch it on:\nAmazon Prime\nThe Masque of the Red Death (1964)\nThe seventh and most experimental of cult filmmaker Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations,\nThe Masque of the Red Death\nis a medieval fable set in an unnamed Italian village, where a sadistic prince (Vincent Price) lords over both the poor villagers outside his palace walls and the debauched guests at a ball within. As a plague sweeps the land, he orders the village burned to stop it — but that doesn’t prevent the Red Death from ultimately piercing the palace walls.\nMasque\nmay be a fantasy, but its ultimate message — that disease and death do not distinguish between rich and poor — holds true.\nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\nOutbreak (1995)\nA classic infection blockbuster from Wolfgang Peterson where we see medics battling with a virus brought to a Californian town by an African monkey.\nOutbreak\nis glossy and thrilling and much more self contained than something like Contagion – making it less a pandemic movie but a race to contain the virus mixed with some high octane conspiracy theory business.\nWatch in the US on:\nNetflix\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nPanic in the Streets\n(1950)\nA lot of fantastic directors have tackled the pandemic theme at least once, and this time out it’s Elia Kazan. His noirish 1950 thriller is, like Sturges’\nThe Satan Bug\n, more about preventing a crisis than living through one, as a public health official and a New Orleans cop must track down three thugs — who inadvertently murdered a man carrying pneumonic plague and might now be infected themselves. The two leads — played by Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas — show the kind of determination and resilience that we can always use more of.\nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nPontypool (2009)\nSort of a zombie movie, sort of an infection movie, and sort of a quarantine film this clever Canadian horror from Bruce McDonald sees Stephen McHattie as a radio DJ narrating an unfolding outbreak of\nsomething\nhappening outside his studio. McHattie carries the movie, which is a smart way to simulate a pandemic and create a feeling of panic on a very low budget, via a film which takes place almost entirely in one room.\nWatch in the US on:\niTunes\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nQuarantine (2008)\nThis American remake of\n[REC]\nstarring\nDexter\n’s Jennifer Carpenter is fine but removes some of the strangeness and ambiguity of the original. Here the virus’ origins and effects are explicitly stated rather than left in the background. It’s still effective enough, and several of the best scares are ‘shock for shock’ with\n[REC]\n.\nWatch in the US on:\n \nCrackle\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\n[REC] (2007)\nLess interested in global infrastructure and more in scaring the living crap out of audiences, this snappy Spanish horror from Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza sees a reporter and her cameraman go on a ride-along with an emergency services team who are called to an apartment building during a disturbance. Once they’re inside they realize some sort of infection is spreading fast and they’re suddenly quarantined inside. And things are about to get weirder. A very effective found footage movie with a nerve jangling ending,\n[REC]\ninspired three serviceable sequels, but none are as powerful as the original.\nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\n,\nGooglePlay\n \nThe Satan Bug\n(1965)\nProduced and directed by John Sturges (\nThe Magnificent Seven\n)\n,\nThe Satan Bug\ndetails the search by government agents for a missing vial containing the title pathogen, a biological weapon that could wipe out all human life in a matter of months. The film (like the novel its based on) is more of a tense chase thriller than a pandemic story, but it points up the implications of what could happen if a little glass tube full of death escapes into the world…whether its made by nature or not.\nWatch in the US on:\nAmazon Prime\nShivers (1975)\nDavid Cronenberg’s debut movie was also an infection film – but one that’s quite different. Set in a very 70s luxury apartment building,\nShivers\nbegins with a doctor murdering and cutting up what looks like a schoolgirl before taking his own life. It’s a strange opener for an even stranger film, a satirical body horror that sees residents of the block become infected by a parasite which turns them into manic sex fiends. It’s a descent into hell movie with an orgiastic climax which really put Cronenberg on the map.\nWatch in the US on:\nTubi\n(Free)\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nTrain To Busan (2016)\nThis excellent Korean zombie movie is a scary depiction of how fast a virus can spread. An absent father, Seok-woo, boards a train from Seoul to Busan with his daughter while one infected woman boards a different carriage. Soon every passenger in that carriage is infected and Seok-woo must work with other commuters to try to keep the healthy cars separate from the infected. Emotional and thrilling with breakneck pacing. A sequel, called\nPeninsula\nwas\ndue to land this summer\n, but will likely suffer the same fate as many other upcoming releases.\nWatch in the US on:\nVudu\n(Free)\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime\nVirus (1980)\nProduced by Japan’s Toho Studios,\nVirus\nwas directed by Kinji Fukasaku — who went on to make the legendary\nBattle Royale\n20 years later — and was for its time the most expensive Japanese film in history. It uses an international cast, featuring stars such as Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos and Glenn Ford, to detail the efforts of a small group of scientists to find the cure for a virus that has wiped out nearly all of humanity. The film’s length (156 minutes) and global scope give it an epic feel despite its overall bleak storyline.\nWatch in the US on:\nTubi\n(Free),\nAmazon Prime\nWatch in the UK on:\nAmazon Prime","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to main content area](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/best-quarantine-virus-movies\/#main)\n\n[Menu](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/best-quarantine-virus-movies\/#nav-primary__wrapper)\n\n[Subscribe](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/newsletter\/)\n\n[Den of Geek](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/)\n\n- [Instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/denofgeek\/)\n- [Youtube](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/denofgeektube)\n- [TikTok](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@denofgeektv?lang=en)\n- [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DenOfGeekUS)\n- [X](https:\/\/x.com\/DenofGeekUS)\n\nToggle search\n\n- [Movies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/)\n- [TV](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/tv\/)\n- [Games](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/games\/)\n- [Comics](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/comics\/)\n- [Books](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/books\/)\n- [Collectibles](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/collectibles\/)\n- [Magazine](https:\/\/issuu.com\/denofgeek)\n- [Shows & Podcasts](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/podcasts\/)\n- [Video](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/videos\/)\n- [Newsletter](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/newsletter\/)\n\n[Subscribe](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/newsletter\/)\n\n- [Instagram](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/denofgeek\/)\n- [Youtube](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/denofgeektube)\n- [TikTok](https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@denofgeektv?lang=en)\n- [Facebook](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DenOfGeekUS)\n- [X](https:\/\/x.com\/DenofGeekUS)\n\n[Features](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/features\/)\n\n# Best Pandemic and Virus Outbreak Movies to Stream While You’re in Quarantine\nStay home, lock the doors, and get nice and cosy with these great quarantine, virus, and infection movies.\n\n![](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Rosie-Fletcher-Headshot.jpg?fit=133%2C200&resize=200%2C200&filter=grayscale) By [Rosie Fletcher](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/rosie-fletcher\/), [Don Kaye](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/don-kaye\/) \\|\n\nMarch 20, 2020\n\n\\|\n\n- [Share on Facebook (opens in a new tab)](https:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denofgeek.com%2Fmovies%2Fbest-quarantine-virus-movies%2F&t=Best%20Pandemic%20and%20Virus%20Outbreak%20Movies%20to%20Stream%20While%20You%E2%80%99re%20in%20Quarantine)\n- [Share on X (opens in a new tab)](https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denofgeek.com%2Fmovies%2Fbest-quarantine-virus-movies%2F&text=Best%20Pandemic%20and%20Virus%20Outbreak%20Movies%20to%20Stream%20While%20You%E2%80%99re%20in%20Quarantine)\n- [Share on Linkedin (opens in a new tab)](https:\/\/reddit.com\/submit\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denofgeek.com%2Fmovies%2Fbest-quarantine-virus-movies%2F&title=Best%20Pandemic%20and%20Virus%20Outbreak%20Movies%20to%20Stream%20While%20You%E2%80%99re%20in%20Quarantine)\n- [Share on email (opens in a new tab)](<mailto:?body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denofgeek.com%2Fmovies%2Fbest-quarantine-virus-movies%2F%3Futm_source%3Demailshare%26utm_medium%3Darticle%26utm_campaign%3Darticleshare&subject=Best Pandemic and Virus Outbreak Movies to Stream While You’re in Quarantine>)\n\n\\| [0](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/best-quarantine-virus-movies\/#disqus_thread)\n\n![Pandemic and Virus Outbreak Movies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/pandemic-virus-outbreak-movies.jpg?resize=768%2C432)\n\nHorror movies are the perfect place to explore our fears in the safety of our own homes. So it stands to reason that since we’re all stuck self-isolating in our own homes we should want to explore our abject terror of the COVID-19 virus driving ordinarily sane people to stockpile booze and toilet paper outside.\n\nPerhaps it’s a fascination with the movies that predicted how a pandemic would play out that put [Steven Soderberg’s](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/contagion-warning-lies-coronavirus\/) ***[Contagion](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/contagion-warning-lies-coronavirus\/)*** in the top ten most rented list on iTunes. Maybe it’s watching characters you can relate to dealing with a brand new disease in a story that’s ultimately fiction that has landed ***Outbreak*** in the Netflix top ten.\n\nIt’s not surprising we suddenly seem to have an appetite for infection and quarantine movies, so here are some of the best ones and where you can stream them from home.\n\n![12 Monkeys](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/12-Monkeys.jpg?fit=1024%2C704)\n\n## **12 Monkeys** (1995)\nIn Terry Gilliam’s masterful sci-fi fable, an unbalanced prisoner named Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to 1996 from 2035, where the remnants of humanity live underground. His mission: to find and procure a sample of the virus that wiped out civilization so that future scientists can study it and find a cure. Based on the French short film ***La Jetee***, ***12 Monkeys*** is about the way that human intellect and emotion can distort time and reality, and its vision of a fading society buried underground by the spread of a pathogen is a chilling central metaphor.\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/12-Monkeys-Joseph-Melito\/dp\/B000I8COCQ\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/movie\/12-monkeys-87dab8ef-1279-47cd-a587-315c58ecd4a1)\n\n![28 Days Later](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/28-day-later.jpg?fit=1024%2C576)\n\n## 28 Days Later (2002)\nThe seminal ‘running zombie’ movie from Danny Boyle finds a place on the list, where other zombie films may not because of its clarity that the outbreak is caused by animals infected with a virus These aren’t reanimated undead, but sick people. The virus is nicknamed ‘rage’ and sees the infected become insanely violent and highly contagious. Our hero is Cillian Murphy, unaware of the virus because of a stint in hospital in a coma, who finds London a deserted wasteland just 28 days after the outbreak began.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00D95JXL0\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/movie\/28-days-later-83d001f9-979e-4a5b-99c1-95def26fed72?entity_id=83d001f9-979e-4a5b-99c1-95def26fed72)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/28-Days-Later-Cillian-Murphy\/dp\/B00NJ1AWE6\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![The Andromeda Strain](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Andromeda-Strain.jpg?fit=1024%2C576)\n\n## **The Andromeda Strain** (1971)\nBased on Michael Crichton’s best selling 1969 novel, ***The Andromeda Strain*** chronicles the desperate efforts of a team of four scientists to solve the mystery of a fast-mutating extraterrestrial virus before it can spread throughout the world. The claustrophobic underground lab setting makes the film feel intimate even as the ramifications of the Andromeda organism are catastrophic and terrifying. Directed with pulse-pounding urgency by the great Robert Wise, the film’s focus on science makes it that much more realistic — and frightening.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00D5UK7FA\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Andromeda-Strain-Arthur-Hill\/dp\/B01AYESISC\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n## Join our mailing list\nGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox\\!\n\n![The Bay](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-bay.jpg?fit=1024%2C682)\n\n## The Bay (2013)\nOscar winner Barry Levinson (*Rain Man*) is the unexpected director of this underrated eco-horror which sees a coastal Maryland town infected by a flesh eating fish parasite. A found footage movie with several strands told via local reporting, phone footage, social media, and police surveillance it’s a cautionary tale which Levinson says is largely based on fact.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Shudder](https:\/\/www.shudder.com\/)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Bay-Christopher-Denham\/dp\/B00H37FCJ2\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Blindness](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Blindness.jpg?fit=1024%2C690)\n\n## **Blindness** (2008)\nA highly communicable disease renders much of the world’s population blind in this film from director Fernando Meirelles (***The Two Popes***) based on Jose Saramago’s novel. None of the characters — in a cast led by Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo — are named, as the film follows the book’s metaphorical nature while not shying away from the atrocities that occur as civilization collapses. Less about science and more about human nature, ***Blindness*** suggests that humanity will need to adapt different perspectives to survive a global catastrophe — a lesson worth remembering as we work our way through the COVID-19 crisis.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00BR2HM56\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Blindness-Mark-Ruffalo\/dp\/B01MTB0MYW\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Cabin Fever](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cabin-fever.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Cabin Fever (2003)\nWhat’s that you say? You’ve got Cabin Fever? Thank your lucky stars it’s not this kind! Eli Roth’s feature debut was this comedy horror which sees a group of kids vacationing in a cabin attacked by a flesh eating virus. It’s extremely gory and gross (that leg shaving scene, eesh), but it’s also quite funny and sharp in how it plays with horror tropes.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00BZBSWT4\/ref=atv_dl_rdr&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [STARZPLAY](https:\/\/www.starz.com\/gb\/en\/), [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cabin-Fever-Jordan-Ladd\/dp\/B00G04EF8S\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Carriers](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/carriers.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Carriers (2009)\nChris Pine stars in this post-apocalyptic road movie which sees a virus wipe out much of the population. An as yet uninfected foursome head out to a small resort they believe is plague-free where they plan to wait out the pandemic. On the way they encounter desperate survivors and dangerous factions and eventually turn on each other. Not the most cheerful of the movies on this list.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Netflix](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/watch\/70122722?source=35)\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/CARRIERS-Lou-Taylor-Pucci\/dp\/B00H37DU8C\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Children of Men](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Children-Of-Men.png?fit=1024%2C557)\n\n## **Children of Men** (2006)\nDirector Alfonso Cuaron’s modern classic could well be the most frightening film on this list in many ways — because of both Cuaron’s hyper-realistic style of filmmaking and because its world is so recognizably our own in many ways. With an unknown malady preventing the birth of any new children for 18 years (following a global flu pandemic), the world is on the brink of societal collapse. Only one lone young woman — who is somehow pregnant — provides a beacon of hope against a storm of despair. The film’s lasting theme of faith against all odds may end up being a balm in these uncertain days.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Children-Men-Clive-Owen\/dp\/B000OW8DW6\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/movie\/children-of-men-b83bfcac-d1a7-4df4-a3cc-4fa52d8c009d)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Children-Men-Clive-Owen\/dp\/B00LHZLY8Y\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Gwyneth Paltrow in Contagion](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/contagion.jpg?w=620)\n\n## Contagion (2011)\nSteven Soderbergh’s realistic depiction of what might happen in the wake of a pandemic sees doctors struggling to identify the cause of a deadly virus and attempt to develop a vaccine while cities are under quarantine, false reports are causing panic buying, and supplies of the inoculation aren’t sufficient to treat everyone at risk. Featuring an all star cast including Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow it’s a classy and slightly terrifying look outside our own window.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Contagion-Marion-Cotillard\/dp\/B006IVBSBU\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n## Latest Movie reviews\n## [Power Ballad Review: Paul Rudd’s Finest](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/power-ballad-review-paul-rudd\/)\nBy [David Crow](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/david-crow\/)\n\n## [They Will Kill You Review: Ready or Not Here It Is](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/they-will-kill-you-review\/)\nBy [David Crow](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/david-crow\/)\n\n## [Over Your Dead Body Review: Samara Weaving Delights in 'Murder Your Spouse' Comedy](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/over-your-dead-body-review-samara-weaving-delights-murder\/)\nBy [David Crow](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/david-crow\/)\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** Netflix,[Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Contagion-Gwyneth-Paltrow\/dp\/B00G3ECHEY\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![The Crazies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Crazies.jpg?fit=1024%2C683)\n\n## **The Crazies (1973\/2010)**\nLegendary director George A. Romero (***Night of the Living Dead***) made the original ***Crazies*** in 1973, focusing on a small town decimated by a biological weapon and finished off by the incompetence of the government that tries to contain the outbreak. Romero’s film was crudely made but razor-sharp in its skewering of the bureaucratic and military mindset; a 2010 remake from director Breck Eisner is less satirical, more polished and intense, and in the end, more effective. Both are worth a watch.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crazies-Lane-Carroll\/dp\/B07KPNBR1D\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) (both free for Prime members; 2010 version available to rent\/buy)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime (2010)](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Crazies-Timothy-Olyphant\/dp\/B0823P8RS9\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![It Comes at Night](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/it_comes_at_night_2.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## It Comes At Night (2017)\nDespite what the misleading trailer suggested this is *not* a zombie movie, but it *is* an infection film, of sorts, which sees a couple and their teenage son self isolating in the woods because of an unseen threat that’s taken over the world. But when a young couple and their child arrive seeking refuge the family’s domestic stability is shaken. Metaphorical, intelligent, and scary, ***It Comes at Night*** is one bleak quarantine movie.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Netflix](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/watch\/80174959?source=35)\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n**Watch it on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Comes-at-Night-Joel-Edgerton\/dp\/B076VQ54MV\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![The Masque of the Red Death](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Masque-Of-The-Red-Death.jpg?fit=1024%2C515)\n\n## **The Masque of the Red Death (1964)**\nThe seventh and most experimental of cult filmmaker Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, ***The Masque of the Red Death*** is a medieval fable set in an unnamed Italian village, where a sadistic prince (Vincent Price) lords over both the poor villagers outside his palace walls and the debauched guests at a ball within. As a plague sweeps the land, he orders the village burned to stop it — but that doesn’t prevent the Red Death from ultimately piercing the palace walls. ***Masque*** may be a fantasy, but its ultimate message — that disease and death do not distinguish between rich and poor — holds true.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Masque-Red-Death-Vincent-Prince\/dp\/B0095DMCZO\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Outbreak](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/outbreak.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Outbreak (1995)\nA classic infection blockbuster from Wolfgang Peterson where we see medics battling with a virus brought to a Californian town by an African monkey. ***Outbreak*** is glossy and thrilling and much more self contained than something like Contagion – making it less a pandemic movie but a race to contain the virus mixed with some high octane conspiracy theory business.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Netflix](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/search?q=outbreak&jbv=834585&jbp=0&jbr=0)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Outbreak-Dustin-Hoffman\/dp\/B00I6WLY4A\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n![Panic in the Streets](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panic-In-The-Streets.jpg?fit=1024%2C576)\n\n## **Panic in the Streets** (1950)\nA lot of fantastic directors have tackled the pandemic theme at least once, and this time out it’s Elia Kazan. His noirish 1950 thriller is, like Sturges’ ***The Satan Bug***, more about preventing a crisis than living through one, as a public health official and a New Orleans cop must track down three thugs — who inadvertently murdered a man carrying pneumonic plague and might now be infected themselves. The two leads — played by Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas — show the kind of determination and resilience that we can always use more of.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00CZEM6IS\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Panic-Streets-Richard-Widmark\/dp\/B07FYW798N\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Pontypool](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/pontypool.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Pontypool (2009)\nSort of a zombie movie, sort of an infection movie, and sort of a quarantine film this clever Canadian horror from Bruce McDonald sees Stephen McHattie as a radio DJ narrating an unfolding outbreak of *something* happening outside his studio. McHattie carries the movie, which is a smart way to simulate a pandemic and create a feeling of panic on a very low budget, via a film which takes place almost entirely in one room.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [iTunes](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pontypool-Stephen-McHattie\/dp\/B006OGNAX8&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B07PB4SP9C\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n![Quaratine](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/quarantine.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Quarantine (2008)\nThis American remake of ***\\[REC\\]*** starring ***Dexter***’s Jennifer Carpenter is fine but removes some of the strangeness and ambiguity of the original. Here the virus’ origins and effects are explicitly stated rather than left in the background. It’s still effective enough, and several of the best scares are ‘shock for shock’ with ***\\[REC\\]***.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Crackle](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/browse)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Quarantine-Columbus-Short\/dp\/B00FYNYWZ2\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![\\[REC\\]](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/REC.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## \\[REC\\] (2007)\nLess interested in global infrastructure and more in scaring the living crap out of audiences, this snappy Spanish horror from Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza sees a reporter and her cameraman go on a ride-along with an emergency services team who are called to an apartment building during a disturbance. Once they’re inside they realize some sort of infection is spreading fast and they’re suddenly quarantined inside. And things are about to get weirder. A very effective found footage movie with a nerve jangling ending, ***\\[REC\\]*** inspired three serviceable sequels, but none are as powerful as the original.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00BRAK0IY\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [GooglePlay](https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/movies\/details?id=1JOup45nQ7E)\n\n![The Satan Bug](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Satan-Bug.jpg?fit=1024%2C438)\n\n## **The Satan Bug** (1965)\nProduced and directed by John Sturges (***The Magnificent Seven***)*,* ***The Satan Bug*** details the search by government agents for a missing vial containing the title pathogen, a biological weapon that could wipe out all human life in a matter of months. The film (like the novel its based on) is more of a tense chase thriller than a pandemic story, but it points up the implications of what could happen if a little glass tube full of death escapes into the world…whether its made by nature or not.\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B01BHHE7AS\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Shivers](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/shivers-3.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Shivers (1975)\nDavid Cronenberg’s debut movie was also an infection film – but one that’s quite different. Set in a very 70s luxury apartment building, ***Shivers*** begins with a doctor murdering and cutting up what looks like a schoolgirl before taking his own life. It’s a strange opener for an even stranger film, a satirical body horror that sees residents of the block become infected by a parasite which turns them into manic sex fiends. It’s a descent into hell movie with an orgiastic climax which really put Cronenberg on the map.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Tubi](https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/447847\/shivers?utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed) (Free)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/video\/detail\/B06XC3GZGX\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Train To Busan](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/train-to-busan.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Train To Busan (2016)\nThis excellent Korean zombie movie is a scary depiction of how fast a virus can spread. An absent father, Seok-woo, boards a train from Seoul to Busan with his daughter while one infected woman boards a different carriage. Soon every passenger in that carriage is infected and Seok-woo must work with other commuters to try to keep the healthy cars separate from the infected. Emotional and thrilling with breakneck pacing. A sequel, called ***Peninsula*** was [due to land this summer](https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/life\/2020\/02\/29\/train-to-busan-sequel-peninsula-confirms-summer-release.html), but will likely suffer the same fate as many other upcoming releases.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Vudu](https:\/\/www.vudu.com\/content\/movies\/details\/Train-to-Busan\/823460) (Free)\n\nAd\n\nAd – content continues below\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Train-Busan-English-Subtitled-Gong\/dp\/B01MS6I4YJ\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Virus (1980)](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Virus.jpg?fit=1024%2C597)\n\n## **Virus (1980)**\nProduced by Japan’s Toho Studios, ***Virus*** was directed by Kinji Fukasaku — who went on to make the legendary ***Battle Royale*** 20 years later — and was for its time the most expensive Japanese film in history. It uses an international cast, featuring stars such as Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos and Glenn Ford, to detail the efforts of a small group of scientists to find the cure for a virus that has wiped out nearly all of humanity. The film’s length (156 minutes) and global scope give it an epic feel despite its overall bleak storyline.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Tubi](https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/309701\/virus_day_of_resurrection?utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed) (Free), [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B07GCKXJW9\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Virus-Chuck-Conners\/dp\/B07G5CCMSS\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\nAd\n\n- Share:\n- [Share on Facebook (opens in a new tab)](https:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denofgeek.com%2Fmovies%2Fbest-quarantine-virus-movies%2F&t=Best%20Pandemic%20and%20Virus%20Outbreak%20Movies%20to%20Stream%20While%20You%E2%80%99re%20in%20Quarantine)\n- [Share on X (opens in a new tab)](https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denofgeek.com%2Fmovies%2Fbest-quarantine-virus-movies%2F&text=Best%20Pandemic%20and%20Virus%20Outbreak%20Movies%20to%20Stream%20While%20You%E2%80%99re%20in%20Quarantine)\n- [Share on Linkedin (opens in a new tab)](https:\/\/reddit.com\/submit\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denofgeek.com%2Fmovies%2Fbest-quarantine-virus-movies%2F&title=Best%20Pandemic%20and%20Virus%20Outbreak%20Movies%20to%20Stream%20While%20You%E2%80%99re%20in%20Quarantine)\n- [Share on email (opens in a new tab)](<mailto:?body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denofgeek.com%2Fmovies%2Fbest-quarantine-virus-movies%2F%3Futm_source%3Demailshare%26utm_medium%3Darticle%26utm_campaign%3Darticleshare&subject=Best Pandemic and Virus Outbreak Movies to Stream While You’re in Quarantine>)\n\n\\|\n\nComment:\n\n[0](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/best-quarantine-virus-movies\/#disqus_thread)\n\nTags: [Horror](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/horror\/)[Horror Movies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/horror-movies\/)\n\n## More on Horror\n[![Outbreak Movies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/disease-movies.jpg?resize=768%2C432)](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/the-origin-of-outbreak-movies\/)\n\n[Movies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/)\n\n### [The Origin of Outbreak Movies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/the-origin-of-outbreak-movies\/)\nMarch 10, 2020\n\n\\| By [Jim Knipfel](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/jim-knipfel\/)\n\n[![New Movies to Stream on VOD in 2020](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/New-Movies-to-Stream-on-VOD-in-2020.jpg?resize=768%2C432)](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/where-to-stream-new-movies-in-theaters-vod\/)\n\n[Movies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/)\n\n### [Where to Stream New Movies in Theaters on VOD](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/where-to-stream-new-movies-in-theaters-vod\/)\nMarch 20, 2020\n\n\\| By [David Crow](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/david-crow\/)\n\n[Movies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/)\n\n### [Horror Streaming Service Shudder Offers 30 Day Free Trial](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/horror-streaming-service-shudder-30-day-free-trial\/)\nMarch 19, 2020\n\n\\| By [Rosie Fletcher](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/author\/rosie-fletcher\/)\n\nAd - 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So it stands to reason that since we’re all stuck self-isolating in our own homes we should want to explore our abject terror of the COVID-19 virus driving ordinarily sane people to stockpile booze and toilet paper outside.\n\nPerhaps it’s a fascination with the movies that predicted how a pandemic would play out that put [Steven Soderberg’s](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/contagion-warning-lies-coronavirus\/) ***[Contagion](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/movies\/contagion-warning-lies-coronavirus\/)*** in the top ten most rented list on iTunes. Maybe it’s watching characters you can relate to dealing with a brand new disease in a story that’s ultimately fiction that has landed ***Outbreak*** in the Netflix top ten.\n\nIt’s not surprising we suddenly seem to have an appetite for infection and quarantine movies, so here are some of the best ones and where you can stream them from home.\n\n![12 Monkeys](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/12-Monkeys.jpg?fit=1024%2C704)\n\n## **12 Monkeys** (1995)\nIn Terry Gilliam’s masterful sci-fi fable, an unbalanced prisoner named Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to 1996 from 2035, where the remnants of humanity live underground. His mission: to find and procure a sample of the virus that wiped out civilization so that future scientists can study it and find a cure. Based on the French short film ***La Jetee***, ***12 Monkeys*** is about the way that human intellect and emotion can distort time and reality, and its vision of a fading society buried underground by the spread of a pathogen is a chilling central metaphor.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/12-Monkeys-Joseph-Melito\/dp\/B000I8COCQ\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/movie\/12-monkeys-87dab8ef-1279-47cd-a587-315c58ecd4a1)\n\n![28 Days Later](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/28-day-later.jpg?fit=1024%2C576)\n\n## 28 Days Later (2002)\nThe seminal ‘running zombie’ movie from Danny Boyle finds a place on the list, where other zombie films may not because of its clarity that the outbreak is caused by animals infected with a virus These aren’t reanimated undead, but sick people. The virus is nicknamed ‘rage’ and sees the infected become insanely violent and highly contagious. Our hero is Cillian Murphy, unaware of the virus because of a stint in hospital in a coma, who finds London a deserted wasteland just 28 days after the outbreak began.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00D95JXL0\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/movie\/28-days-later-83d001f9-979e-4a5b-99c1-95def26fed72?entity_id=83d001f9-979e-4a5b-99c1-95def26fed72)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/28-Days-Later-Cillian-Murphy\/dp\/B00NJ1AWE6\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![The Andromeda Strain](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Andromeda-Strain.jpg?fit=1024%2C576)\n\n## **The Andromeda Strain** (1971)\nBased on Michael Crichton’s best selling 1969 novel, ***The Andromeda Strain*** chronicles the desperate efforts of a team of four scientists to solve the mystery of a fast-mutating extraterrestrial virus before it can spread throughout the world. The claustrophobic underground lab setting makes the film feel intimate even as the ramifications of the Andromeda organism are catastrophic and terrifying. Directed with pulse-pounding urgency by the great Robert Wise, the film’s focus on science makes it that much more realistic — and frightening.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00D5UK7FA\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Andromeda-Strain-Arthur-Hill\/dp\/B01AYESISC\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![The Bay](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-bay.jpg?fit=1024%2C682)\n\n## The Bay (2013)\nOscar winner Barry Levinson (*Rain Man*) is the unexpected director of this underrated eco-horror which sees a coastal Maryland town infected by a flesh eating fish parasite. A found footage movie with several strands told via local reporting, phone footage, social media, and police surveillance it’s a cautionary tale which Levinson says is largely based on fact.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Shudder](https:\/\/www.shudder.com\/)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Bay-Christopher-Denham\/dp\/B00H37FCJ2\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Blindness](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Blindness.jpg?fit=1024%2C690)\n\n## **Blindness** (2008)\nA highly communicable disease renders much of the world’s population blind in this film from director Fernando Meirelles (***The Two Popes***) based on Jose Saramago’s novel. None of the characters — in a cast led by Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo — are named, as the film follows the book’s metaphorical nature while not shying away from the atrocities that occur as civilization collapses. Less about science and more about human nature, ***Blindness*** suggests that humanity will need to adapt different perspectives to survive a global catastrophe — a lesson worth remembering as we work our way through the COVID-19 crisis.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00BR2HM56\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Blindness-Mark-Ruffalo\/dp\/B01MTB0MYW\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Cabin Fever](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cabin-fever.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Cabin Fever (2003)\nWhat’s that you say? You’ve got Cabin Fever? Thank your lucky stars it’s not this kind! Eli Roth’s feature debut was this comedy horror which sees a group of kids vacationing in a cabin attacked by a flesh eating virus. It’s extremely gory and gross (that leg shaving scene, eesh), but it’s also quite funny and sharp in how it plays with horror tropes.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00BZBSWT4\/ref=atv_dl_rdr&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [STARZPLAY](https:\/\/www.starz.com\/gb\/en\/), [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Cabin-Fever-Jordan-Ladd\/dp\/B00G04EF8S\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Carriers](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/carriers.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Carriers (2009)\nChris Pine stars in this post-apocalyptic road movie which sees a virus wipe out much of the population. An as yet uninfected foursome head out to a small resort they believe is plague-free where they plan to wait out the pandemic. On the way they encounter desperate survivors and dangerous factions and eventually turn on each other. Not the most cheerful of the movies on this list.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Netflix](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/watch\/70122722?source=35)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/CARRIERS-Lou-Taylor-Pucci\/dp\/B00H37DU8C\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Children of Men](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Children-Of-Men.png?fit=1024%2C557)\n\n## **Children of Men** (2006)\nDirector Alfonso Cuaron’s modern classic could well be the most frightening film on this list in many ways — because of both Cuaron’s hyper-realistic style of filmmaking and because its world is so recognizably our own in many ways. With an unknown malady preventing the birth of any new children for 18 years (following a global flu pandemic), the world is on the brink of societal collapse. Only one lone young woman — who is somehow pregnant — provides a beacon of hope against a storm of despair. The film’s lasting theme of faith against all odds may end up being a balm in these uncertain days.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Children-Men-Clive-Owen\/dp\/B000OW8DW6\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https:\/\/www.hulu.com\/movie\/children-of-men-b83bfcac-d1a7-4df4-a3cc-4fa52d8c009d)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Children-Men-Clive-Owen\/dp\/B00LHZLY8Y\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Gwyneth Paltrow in Contagion](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/contagion.jpg?w=620)\n\n## Contagion (2011)\nSteven Soderbergh’s realistic depiction of what might happen in the wake of a pandemic sees doctors struggling to identify the cause of a deadly virus and attempt to develop a vaccine while cities are under quarantine, false reports are causing panic buying, and supplies of the inoculation aren’t sufficient to treat everyone at risk. Featuring an all star cast including Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow it’s a classy and slightly terrifying look outside our own window.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Contagion-Marion-Cotillard\/dp\/B006IVBSBU\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n## Latest Movie reviews\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** Netflix,[Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Contagion-Gwyneth-Paltrow\/dp\/B00G3ECHEY\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![The Crazies](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Crazies.jpg?fit=1024%2C683)\n\n## **The Crazies (1973\/2010)**\nLegendary director George A. Romero (***Night of the Living Dead***) made the original ***Crazies*** in 1973, focusing on a small town decimated by a biological weapon and finished off by the incompetence of the government that tries to contain the outbreak. Romero’s film was crudely made but razor-sharp in its skewering of the bureaucratic and military mindset; a 2010 remake from director Breck Eisner is less satirical, more polished and intense, and in the end, more effective. Both are worth a watch.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crazies-Lane-Carroll\/dp\/B07KPNBR1D\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) (both free for Prime members; 2010 version available to rent\/buy)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime (2010)](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Crazies-Timothy-Olyphant\/dp\/B0823P8RS9\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![It Comes at Night](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/it_comes_at_night_2.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## It Comes At Night (2017)\nDespite what the misleading trailer suggested this is *not* a zombie movie, but it *is* an infection film, of sorts, which sees a couple and their teenage son self isolating in the woods because of an unseen threat that’s taken over the world. But when a young couple and their child arrive seeking refuge the family’s domestic stability is shaken. Metaphorical, intelligent, and scary, ***It Comes at Night*** is one bleak quarantine movie.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Netflix](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/watch\/80174959?source=35)\n\n**Watch it on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Comes-at-Night-Joel-Edgerton\/dp\/B076VQ54MV\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![The Masque of the Red Death](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Masque-Of-The-Red-Death.jpg?fit=1024%2C515)\n\n## **The Masque of the Red Death (1964)**\nThe seventh and most experimental of cult filmmaker Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, ***The Masque of the Red Death*** is a medieval fable set in an unnamed Italian village, where a sadistic prince (Vincent Price) lords over both the poor villagers outside his palace walls and the debauched guests at a ball within. As a plague sweeps the land, he orders the village burned to stop it — but that doesn’t prevent the Red Death from ultimately piercing the palace walls. ***Masque*** may be a fantasy, but its ultimate message — that disease and death do not distinguish between rich and poor — holds true.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Masque-Red-Death-Vincent-Prince\/dp\/B0095DMCZO\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Outbreak](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/outbreak.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Outbreak (1995)\nA classic infection blockbuster from Wolfgang Peterson where we see medics battling with a virus brought to a Californian town by an African monkey. ***Outbreak*** is glossy and thrilling and much more self contained than something like Contagion – making it less a pandemic movie but a race to contain the virus mixed with some high octane conspiracy theory business.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Netflix](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/search?q=outbreak&jbv=834585&jbp=0&jbr=0)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Outbreak-Dustin-Hoffman\/dp\/B00I6WLY4A\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Panic in the Streets](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panic-In-The-Streets.jpg?fit=1024%2C576)\n\n## **Panic in the Streets** (1950)\nA lot of fantastic directors have tackled the pandemic theme at least once, and this time out it’s Elia Kazan. His noirish 1950 thriller is, like Sturges’ ***The Satan Bug***, more about preventing a crisis than living through one, as a public health official and a New Orleans cop must track down three thugs — who inadvertently murdered a man carrying pneumonic plague and might now be infected themselves. The two leads — played by Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas — show the kind of determination and resilience that we can always use more of.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00CZEM6IS\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Panic-Streets-Richard-Widmark\/dp\/B07FYW798N\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Pontypool](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/pontypool.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Pontypool (2009)\nSort of a zombie movie, sort of an infection movie, and sort of a quarantine film this clever Canadian horror from Bruce McDonald sees Stephen McHattie as a radio DJ narrating an unfolding outbreak of *something* happening outside his studio. McHattie carries the movie, which is a smart way to simulate a pandemic and create a feeling of panic on a very low budget, via a film which takes place almost entirely in one room.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [iTunes](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pontypool-Stephen-McHattie\/dp\/B006OGNAX8&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B07PB4SP9C\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Quaratine](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/quarantine.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Quarantine (2008)\nThis American remake of ***\\[REC\\]*** starring ***Dexter***’s Jennifer Carpenter is fine but removes some of the strangeness and ambiguity of the original. Here the virus’ origins and effects are explicitly stated rather than left in the background. It’s still effective enough, and several of the best scares are ‘shock for shock’ with ***\\[REC\\]***.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Crackle](https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/browse)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Quarantine-Columbus-Short\/dp\/B00FYNYWZ2\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![\\[REC\\]](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/REC.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## \\[REC\\] (2007)\nLess interested in global infrastructure and more in scaring the living crap out of audiences, this snappy Spanish horror from Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza sees a reporter and her cameraman go on a ride-along with an emergency services team who are called to an apartment building during a disturbance. Once they’re inside they realize some sort of infection is spreading fast and they’re suddenly quarantined inside. And things are about to get weirder. A very effective found footage movie with a nerve jangling ending, ***\\[REC\\]*** inspired three serviceable sequels, but none are as powerful as the original.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B00BRAK0IY\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [GooglePlay](https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/movies\/details?id=1JOup45nQ7E)\n\n![The Satan Bug](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/The-Satan-Bug.jpg?fit=1024%2C438)\n\n## **The Satan Bug** (1965)\nProduced and directed by John Sturges (***The Magnificent Seven***)*,* ***The Satan Bug*** details the search by government agents for a missing vial containing the title pathogen, a biological weapon that could wipe out all human life in a matter of months. The film (like the novel its based on) is more of a tense chase thriller than a pandemic story, but it points up the implications of what could happen if a little glass tube full of death escapes into the world…whether its made by nature or not.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B01BHHE7AS\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Shivers](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/shivers-3.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Shivers (1975)\nDavid Cronenberg’s debut movie was also an infection film – but one that’s quite different. Set in a very 70s luxury apartment building, ***Shivers*** begins with a doctor murdering and cutting up what looks like a schoolgirl before taking his own life. It’s a strange opener for an even stranger film, a satirical body horror that sees residents of the block become infected by a parasite which turns them into manic sex fiends. It’s a descent into hell movie with an orgiastic climax which really put Cronenberg on the map.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Tubi](https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/447847\/shivers?utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed) (Free)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/video\/detail\/B06XC3GZGX\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Train To Busan](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/train-to-busan.jpg?w=1024)\n\n## Train To Busan (2016)\nThis excellent Korean zombie movie is a scary depiction of how fast a virus can spread. An absent father, Seok-woo, boards a train from Seoul to Busan with his daughter while one infected woman boards a different carriage. Soon every passenger in that carriage is infected and Seok-woo must work with other commuters to try to keep the healthy cars separate from the infected. Emotional and thrilling with breakneck pacing. A sequel, called ***Peninsula*** was [due to land this summer](https:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/life\/2020\/02\/29\/train-to-busan-sequel-peninsula-confirms-summer-release.html), but will likely suffer the same fate as many other upcoming releases.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Vudu](https:\/\/www.vudu.com\/content\/movies\/details\/Train-to-Busan\/823460) (Free)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Train-Busan-English-Subtitled-Gong\/dp\/B01MS6I4YJ\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n![Virus (1980)](https:\/\/www.denofgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Virus.jpg?fit=1024%2C597)\n\n## **Virus (1980)**\nProduced by Japan’s Toho Studios, ***Virus*** was directed by Kinji Fukasaku — who went on to make the legendary ***Battle Royale*** 20 years later — and was for its time the most expensive Japanese film in history. It uses an international cast, featuring stars such as Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos and Glenn Ford, to detail the efforts of a small group of scientists to find the cure for a virus that has wiped out nearly all of humanity. The film’s length (156 minutes) and global scope give it an epic feel despite its overall bleak storyline.\n\n**Watch in the US on:** [Tubi](https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/309701\/virus_day_of_resurrection?utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed) (Free), [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/detail\/B07GCKXJW9\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)\n\n**Watch in the UK on:** [Amazon Prime](https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Virus-Chuck-Conners\/dp\/B07G5CCMSS\/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	By Rosie Fletcher , Don Kaye \| March 20, 2020 \| Horror movies are the perfect place to explore our fears in the safety of our own homes. So it stands to reason that since we’re all stuck self-isolating in our own homes we should want to explore our abject terror of the COVID-19 virus driving ordinarily sane people to stockpile booze and toilet paper outside. Perhaps it’s a fascination with the movies that predicted how a pandemic would play out that put Steven Soderberg’s Contagion in the top ten most rented list on iTunes. Maybe it’s watching characters you can relate to dealing with a brand new disease in a story that’s ultimately fiction that has landed Outbreak in the Netflix top ten. It’s not surprising we suddenly seem to have an appetite for infection and quarantine movies, so here are some of the best ones and where you can stream them from home. 12 Monkeys (1995) In Terry Gilliam’s masterful sci-fi fable, an unbalanced prisoner named Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to 1996 from 2035, where the remnants of humanity live underground. His mission: to find and procure a sample of the virus that wiped out civilization so that future scientists can study it and find a cure. Based on the French short film La Jetee , 12 Monkeys is about the way that human intellect and emotion can distort time and reality, and its vision of a fading society buried underground by the spread of a pathogen is a chilling central metaphor. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime , Hulu 28 Days Later (2002) The seminal ‘running zombie’ movie from Danny Boyle finds a place on the list, where other zombie films may not because of its clarity that the outbreak is caused by animals infected with a virus These aren’t reanimated undead, but sick people. The virus is nicknamed ‘rage’ and sees the infected become insanely violent and highly contagious. Our hero is Cillian Murphy, unaware of the virus because of a stint in hospital in a coma, who finds London a deserted wasteland just 28 days after the outbreak began. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime , Hulu Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime The Andromeda Strain (1971) Based on Michael Crichton’s best selling 1969 novel, The Andromeda Strain chronicles the desperate efforts of a team of four scientists to solve the mystery of a fast-mutating extraterrestrial virus before it can spread throughout the world. The claustrophobic underground lab setting makes the film feel intimate even as the ramifications of the Andromeda organism are catastrophic and terrifying. Directed with pulse-pounding urgency by the great Robert Wise, the film’s focus on science makes it that much more realistic — and frightening. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime The Bay (2013) Oscar winner Barry Levinson ( Rain Man ) is the unexpected director of this underrated eco-horror which sees a coastal Maryland town infected by a flesh eating fish parasite. A found footage movie with several strands told via local reporting, phone footage, social media, and police surveillance it’s a cautionary tale which Levinson says is largely based on fact. Watch in the US on: Shudder Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Blindness (2008) A highly communicable disease renders much of the world’s population blind in this film from director Fernando Meirelles ( The Two Popes ) based on Jose Saramago’s novel. None of the characters — in a cast led by Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo — are named, as the film follows the book’s metaphorical nature while not shying away from the atrocities that occur as civilization collapses. Less about science and more about human nature, Blindness suggests that humanity will need to adapt different perspectives to survive a global catastrophe — a lesson worth remembering as we work our way through the COVID-19 crisis. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Cabin Fever (2003) What’s that you say? You’ve got Cabin Fever? Thank your lucky stars it’s not this kind! Eli Roth’s feature debut was this comedy horror which sees a group of kids vacationing in a cabin attacked by a flesh eating virus. It’s extremely gory and gross (that leg shaving scene, eesh), but it’s also quite funny and sharp in how it plays with horror tropes. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime Watch in the UK on: STARZPLAY , Amazon Prime Carriers (2009) Chris Pine stars in this post-apocalyptic road movie which sees a virus wipe out much of the population. An as yet uninfected foursome head out to a small resort they believe is plague-free where they plan to wait out the pandemic. On the way they encounter desperate survivors and dangerous factions and eventually turn on each other. Not the most cheerful of the movies on this list. Watch in the US on: Netflix Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Children of Men (2006) Director Alfonso Cuaron’s modern classic could well be the most frightening film on this list in many ways — because of both Cuaron’s hyper-realistic style of filmmaking and because its world is so recognizably our own in many ways. With an unknown malady preventing the birth of any new children for 18 years (following a global flu pandemic), the world is on the brink of societal collapse. Only one lone young woman — who is somehow pregnant — provides a beacon of hope against a storm of despair. The film’s lasting theme of faith against all odds may end up being a balm in these uncertain days. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime , Hulu Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Contagion (2011) Steven Soderbergh’s realistic depiction of what might happen in the wake of a pandemic sees doctors struggling to identify the cause of a deadly virus and attempt to develop a vaccine while cities are under quarantine, false reports are causing panic buying, and supplies of the inoculation aren’t sufficient to treat everyone at risk. Featuring an all star cast including Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow it’s a classy and slightly terrifying look outside our own window. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime Latest Movie reviews Watch in the UK on: Netflix, Amazon Prime The Crazies (1973/2010) Legendary director George A. Romero ( Night of the Living Dead ) made the original Crazies in 1973, focusing on a small town decimated by a biological weapon and finished off by the incompetence of the government that tries to contain the outbreak. Romero’s film was crudely made but razor-sharp in its skewering of the bureaucratic and military mindset; a 2010 remake from director Breck Eisner is less satirical, more polished and intense, and in the end, more effective. Both are worth a watch. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime (both free for Prime members; 2010 version available to rent/buy) Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime (2010) It Comes At Night (2017) Despite what the misleading trailer suggested this is not a zombie movie, but it is an infection film, of sorts, which sees a couple and their teenage son self isolating in the woods because of an unseen threat that’s taken over the world. But when a young couple and their child arrive seeking refuge the family’s domestic stability is shaken. Metaphorical, intelligent, and scary, It Comes at Night is one bleak quarantine movie. Watch in the US on: Netflix Watch it on: Amazon Prime The Masque of the Red Death (1964) The seventh and most experimental of cult filmmaker Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, The Masque of the Red Death is a medieval fable set in an unnamed Italian village, where a sadistic prince (Vincent Price) lords over both the poor villagers outside his palace walls and the debauched guests at a ball within. As a plague sweeps the land, he orders the village burned to stop it — but that doesn’t prevent the Red Death from ultimately piercing the palace walls. Masque may be a fantasy, but its ultimate message — that disease and death do not distinguish between rich and poor — holds true. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime Outbreak (1995) A classic infection blockbuster from Wolfgang Peterson where we see medics battling with a virus brought to a Californian town by an African monkey. Outbreak is glossy and thrilling and much more self contained than something like Contagion – making it less a pandemic movie but a race to contain the virus mixed with some high octane conspiracy theory business. Watch in the US on: Netflix Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Panic in the Streets (1950) A lot of fantastic directors have tackled the pandemic theme at least once, and this time out it’s Elia Kazan. His noirish 1950 thriller is, like Sturges’ The Satan Bug , more about preventing a crisis than living through one, as a public health official and a New Orleans cop must track down three thugs — who inadvertently murdered a man carrying pneumonic plague and might now be infected themselves. The two leads — played by Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas — show the kind of determination and resilience that we can always use more of. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Pontypool (2009) Sort of a zombie movie, sort of an infection movie, and sort of a quarantine film this clever Canadian horror from Bruce McDonald sees Stephen McHattie as a radio DJ narrating an unfolding outbreak of something happening outside his studio. McHattie carries the movie, which is a smart way to simulate a pandemic and create a feeling of panic on a very low budget, via a film which takes place almost entirely in one room. Watch in the US on: iTunes Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Quarantine (2008) This American remake of [REC] starring Dexter ’s Jennifer Carpenter is fine but removes some of the strangeness and ambiguity of the original. Here the virus’ origins and effects are explicitly stated rather than left in the background. It’s still effective enough, and several of the best scares are ‘shock for shock’ with [REC] . Watch in the US on: Crackle Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime [REC] (2007) Less interested in global infrastructure and more in scaring the living crap out of audiences, this snappy Spanish horror from Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza sees a reporter and her cameraman go on a ride-along with an emergency services team who are called to an apartment building during a disturbance. Once they’re inside they realize some sort of infection is spreading fast and they’re suddenly quarantined inside. And things are about to get weirder. A very effective found footage movie with a nerve jangling ending, [REC] inspired three serviceable sequels, but none are as powerful as the original. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime , GooglePlay The Satan Bug (1965) Produced and directed by John Sturges ( The Magnificent Seven ) , The Satan Bug details the search by government agents for a missing vial containing the title pathogen, a biological weapon that could wipe out all human life in a matter of months. The film (like the novel its based on) is more of a tense chase thriller than a pandemic story, but it points up the implications of what could happen if a little glass tube full of death escapes into the world…whether its made by nature or not. Watch in the US on: Amazon Prime Shivers (1975) David Cronenberg’s debut movie was also an infection film – but one that’s quite different. Set in a very 70s luxury apartment building, Shivers begins with a doctor murdering and cutting up what looks like a schoolgirl before taking his own life. It’s a strange opener for an even stranger film, a satirical body horror that sees residents of the block become infected by a parasite which turns them into manic sex fiends. It’s a descent into hell movie with an orgiastic climax which really put Cronenberg on the map. Watch in the US on: Tubi (Free) Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Train To Busan (2016) This excellent Korean zombie movie is a scary depiction of how fast a virus can spread. An absent father, Seok-woo, boards a train from Seoul to Busan with his daughter while one infected woman boards a different carriage. Soon every passenger in that carriage is infected and Seok-woo must work with other commuters to try to keep the healthy cars separate from the infected. Emotional and thrilling with breakneck pacing. A sequel, called Peninsula was due to land this summer , but will likely suffer the same fate as many other upcoming releases. Watch in the US on: Vudu (Free) Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime Virus (1980) Produced by Japan’s Toho Studios, Virus was directed by Kinji Fukasaku — who went on to make the legendary Battle Royale 20 years later — and was for its time the most expensive Japanese film in history. It uses an international cast, featuring stars such as Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos and Glenn Ford, to detail the efforts of a small group of scientists to find the cure for a virus that has wiped out nearly all of humanity. The film’s length (156 minutes) and global scope give it an epic feel despite its overall bleak storyline. Watch in the US on: Tubi (Free), Amazon Prime Watch in the UK on: Amazon Prime
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So it stands to reason that since we’re all stuck self-isolating in our own homes we should want to explore our abject terror of the COVID-19 virus driving ordinarily sane people to stockpile booze and toilet paper outside. Perhaps it’s a fascination with the movies that predicted how a pandemic would play out that put [Steven Soderberg’s](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/contagion-warning-lies-coronavirus/) *[Contagion](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/contagion-warning-lies-coronavirus/)* in the top ten most rented list on iTunes. Maybe it’s watching characters you can relate to dealing with a brand new disease in a story that’s ultimately fiction that has landed *Outbreak* in the Netflix top ten. It’s not surprising we suddenly seem to have an appetite for infection and quarantine movies, so here are some of the best ones and where you can stream them from home. ![12 Monkeys](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/12-Monkeys.jpg?fit=1024%2C704) ## 12 Monkeys (1995) In Terry Gilliam’s masterful sci-fi fable, an unbalanced prisoner named Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to 1996 from 2035, where the remnants of humanity live underground. His mission: to find and procure a sample of the virus that wiped out civilization so that future scientists can study it and find a cure. Based on the French short film *La Jetee, 12 Monkeys* is about the way that human intellect and emotion can distort time and reality, and its vision of a fading society buried underground by the spread of a pathogen is a chilling central metaphor. Ad Ad – content continues below Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/12-Monkeys-Joseph-Melito/dp/B000I8COCQ/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/movie/12-monkeys-87dab8ef-1279-47cd-a587-315c58ecd4a1) ![28 Days Later](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/28-day-later.jpg?fit=1024%2C576) ## 28 Days Later (2002) The seminal ‘running zombie’ movie from Danny Boyle finds a place on the list, where other zombie films may not because of its clarity that the outbreak is caused by animals infected with a virus These aren’t reanimated undead, but sick people. The virus is nicknamed ‘rage’ and sees the infected become insanely violent and highly contagious. Our hero is Cillian Murphy, unaware of the virus because of a stint in hospital in a coma, who finds London a deserted wasteland just 28 days after the outbreak began. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00D95JXL0/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/movie/28-days-later-83d001f9-979e-4a5b-99c1-95def26fed72?entity_id=83d001f9-979e-4a5b-99c1-95def26fed72) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/28-Days-Later-Cillian-Murphy/dp/B00NJ1AWE6/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![The Andromeda Strain](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Andromeda-Strain.jpg?fit=1024%2C576) ## The Andromeda Strain (1971) Based on Michael Crichton’s best selling 1969 novel, *The Andromeda Strain* chronicles the desperate efforts of a team of four scientists to solve the mystery of a fast-mutating extraterrestrial virus before it can spread throughout the world. The claustrophobic underground lab setting makes the film feel intimate even as the ramifications of the Andromeda organism are catastrophic and terrifying. Directed with pulse-pounding urgency by the great Robert Wise, the film’s focus on science makes it that much more realistic — and frightening. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00D5UK7FA/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Ad Ad – content continues below Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Andromeda-Strain-Arthur-Hill/dp/B01AYESISC/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ## Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox\! ![The Bay](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-bay.jpg?fit=1024%2C682) ## The Bay (2013) Oscar winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) is the unexpected director of this underrated eco-horror which sees a coastal Maryland town infected by a flesh eating fish parasite. A found footage movie with several strands told via local reporting, phone footage, social media, and police surveillance it’s a cautionary tale which Levinson says is largely based on fact. Watch in the US on: [Shudder](https://www.shudder.com/) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bay-Christopher-Denham/dp/B00H37FCJ2/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Blindness](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Blindness.jpg?fit=1024%2C690) ## Blindness (2008) A highly communicable disease renders much of the world’s population blind in this film from director Fernando Meirelles (*The Two Popes) based on Jose Saramago’s novel. None of the characters — in a cast led by Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo — are named, as the film follows the book’s metaphorical nature while not shying away from the atrocities that occur as civilization collapses. Less about science and more about human nature, Blindness* suggests that humanity will need to adapt different perspectives to survive a global catastrophe — a lesson worth remembering as we work our way through the COVID-19 crisis. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00BR2HM56/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Ad Ad – content continues below Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blindness-Mark-Ruffalo/dp/B01MTB0MYW/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Cabin Fever](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cabin-fever.jpg?w=1024) ## Cabin Fever (2003) What’s that you say? You’ve got Cabin Fever? Thank your lucky stars it’s not this kind! Eli Roth’s feature debut was this comedy horror which sees a group of kids vacationing in a cabin attacked by a flesh eating virus. It’s extremely gory and gross (that leg shaving scene, eesh), but it’s also quite funny and sharp in how it plays with horror tropes. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00BZBSWT4/ref=atv_dl_rdr&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [STARZPLAY](https://www.starz.com/gb/en/), [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cabin-Fever-Jordan-Ladd/dp/B00G04EF8S/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Carriers](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/carriers.jpg?w=1024) ## Carriers (2009) Chris Pine stars in this post-apocalyptic road movie which sees a virus wipe out much of the population. An as yet uninfected foursome head out to a small resort they believe is plague-free where they plan to wait out the pandemic. On the way they encounter desperate survivors and dangerous factions and eventually turn on each other. Not the most cheerful of the movies on this list. Watch in the US on: [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/watch/70122722?source=35) Ad Ad – content continues below Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/CARRIERS-Lou-Taylor-Pucci/dp/B00H37DU8C/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Children of Men](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Children-Of-Men.png?fit=1024%2C557) ## Children of Men (2006) Director Alfonso Cuaron’s modern classic could well be the most frightening film on this list in many ways — because of both Cuaron’s hyper-realistic style of filmmaking and because its world is so recognizably our own in many ways. With an unknown malady preventing the birth of any new children for 18 years (following a global flu pandemic), the world is on the brink of societal collapse. Only one lone young woman — who is somehow pregnant — provides a beacon of hope against a storm of despair. The film’s lasting theme of faith against all odds may end up being a balm in these uncertain days. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Children-Men-Clive-Owen/dp/B000OW8DW6/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/movie/children-of-men-b83bfcac-d1a7-4df4-a3cc-4fa52d8c009d) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Men-Clive-Owen/dp/B00LHZLY8Y/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Gwyneth Paltrow in Contagion](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/contagion.jpg?w=620) ## Contagion (2011) Steven Soderbergh’s realistic depiction of what might happen in the wake of a pandemic sees doctors struggling to identify the cause of a deadly virus and attempt to develop a vaccine while cities are under quarantine, false reports are causing panic buying, and supplies of the inoculation aren’t sufficient to treat everyone at risk. Featuring an all star cast including Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow it’s a classy and slightly terrifying look outside our own window. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Contagion-Marion-Cotillard/dp/B006IVBSBU/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ## Latest Movie reviews ## [Power Ballad Review: Paul Rudd’s Finest](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/power-ballad-review-paul-rudd/) By [David Crow](https://www.denofgeek.com/author/david-crow/) ## [They Will Kill You Review: Ready or Not Here It Is](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/they-will-kill-you-review/) By [David Crow](https://www.denofgeek.com/author/david-crow/) ## [Over Your Dead Body Review: Samara Weaving Delights in 'Murder Your Spouse' Comedy](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/over-your-dead-body-review-samara-weaving-delights-murder/) By [David Crow](https://www.denofgeek.com/author/david-crow/) Ad – content continues below Watch in the UK on: Netflix,[Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contagion-Gwyneth-Paltrow/dp/B00G3ECHEY/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![The Crazies](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Crazies.jpg?fit=1024%2C683) ## The Crazies (1973/2010) Legendary director George A. Romero (*Night of the Living Dead) made the original Crazies* in 1973, focusing on a small town decimated by a biological weapon and finished off by the incompetence of the government that tries to contain the outbreak. Romero’s film was crudely made but razor-sharp in its skewering of the bureaucratic and military mindset; a 2010 remake from director Breck Eisner is less satirical, more polished and intense, and in the end, more effective. Both are worth a watch. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Crazies-Lane-Carroll/dp/B07KPNBR1D/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) (both free for Prime members; 2010 version available to rent/buy) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime (2010)](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crazies-Timothy-Olyphant/dp/B0823P8RS9/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![It Comes at Night](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/it_comes_at_night_2.jpg?w=1024) ## It Comes At Night (2017) Despite what the misleading trailer suggested this is not a zombie movie, but it is an infection film, of sorts, which sees a couple and their teenage son self isolating in the woods because of an unseen threat that’s taken over the world. But when a young couple and their child arrive seeking refuge the family’s domestic stability is shaken. Metaphorical, intelligent, and scary, *It Comes at Night* is one bleak quarantine movie. Watch in the US on: [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/watch/80174959?source=35) Ad Ad – content continues below Watch it on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comes-at-Night-Joel-Edgerton/dp/B076VQ54MV/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![The Masque of the Red Death](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Masque-Of-The-Red-Death.jpg?fit=1024%2C515) ## The Masque of the Red Death (1964) The seventh and most experimental of cult filmmaker Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, *The Masque of the Red Death* is a medieval fable set in an unnamed Italian village, where a sadistic prince (Vincent Price) lords over both the poor villagers outside his palace walls and the debauched guests at a ball within. As a plague sweeps the land, he orders the village burned to stop it — but that doesn’t prevent the Red Death from ultimately piercing the palace walls. *Masque* may be a fantasy, but its ultimate message — that disease and death do not distinguish between rich and poor — holds true. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Masque-Red-Death-Vincent-Prince/dp/B0095DMCZO/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Outbreak](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/outbreak.jpg?w=1024) ## Outbreak (1995) A classic infection blockbuster from Wolfgang Peterson where we see medics battling with a virus brought to a Californian town by an African monkey. *Outbreak* is glossy and thrilling and much more self contained than something like Contagion – making it less a pandemic movie but a race to contain the virus mixed with some high octane conspiracy theory business. Watch in the US on: [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/search?q=outbreak&jbv=834585&jbp=0&jbr=0) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Outbreak-Dustin-Hoffman/dp/B00I6WLY4A/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Ad Ad – content continues below ![Panic in the Streets](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Panic-In-The-Streets.jpg?fit=1024%2C576) ## Panic in the Streets (1950) A lot of fantastic directors have tackled the pandemic theme at least once, and this time out it’s Elia Kazan. His noirish 1950 thriller is, like Sturges’ *The Satan Bug, more about preventing a crisis than living through one, as a public health official and a New Orleans cop must track down three thugs — who inadvertently murdered a man carrying pneumonic plague and might now be infected themselves. The two leads — played by Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas — show the kind of determination and resilience that we can always use more of. Watch in the US on:* [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00CZEM6IS/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panic-Streets-Richard-Widmark/dp/B07FYW798N/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Pontypool](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/pontypool.jpg?w=1024) ## Pontypool (2009) Sort of a zombie movie, sort of an infection movie, and sort of a quarantine film this clever Canadian horror from Bruce McDonald sees Stephen McHattie as a radio DJ narrating an unfolding outbreak of something happening outside his studio. McHattie carries the movie, which is a smart way to simulate a pandemic and create a feeling of panic on a very low budget, via a film which takes place almost entirely in one room. Watch in the US on: [iTunes](https://www.amazon.com/Pontypool-Stephen-McHattie/dp/B006OGNAX8&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07PB4SP9C/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Ad Ad – content continues below ![Quaratine](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/quarantine.jpg?w=1024) ## Quarantine (2008) This American remake of *\[REC\]* starring *Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter is fine but removes some of the strangeness and ambiguity of the original. Here the virus’ origins and effects are explicitly stated rather than left in the background. It’s still effective enough, and several of the best scares are ‘shock for shock’ with \[REC\]. Watch in the US on:* [Crackle](https://www.netflix.com/browse) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quarantine-Columbus-Short/dp/B00FYNYWZ2/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![\[REC\]](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/REC.jpg?w=1024) ## \[REC\] (2007) Less interested in global infrastructure and more in scaring the living crap out of audiences, this snappy Spanish horror from Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza sees a reporter and her cameraman go on a ride-along with an emergency services team who are called to an apartment building during a disturbance. Once they’re inside they realize some sort of infection is spreading fast and they’re suddenly quarantined inside. And things are about to get weirder. A very effective found footage movie with a nerve jangling ending, *\[REC\]* inspired three serviceable sequels, but none are as powerful as the original. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00BRAK0IY/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [GooglePlay](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=1JOup45nQ7E) ![The Satan Bug](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Satan-Bug.jpg?fit=1024%2C438) ## The Satan Bug (1965) Produced and directed by John Sturges (*The Magnificent Seven),* *The Satan Bug* details the search by government agents for a missing vial containing the title pathogen, a biological weapon that could wipe out all human life in a matter of months. The film (like the novel its based on) is more of a tense chase thriller than a pandemic story, but it points up the implications of what could happen if a little glass tube full of death escapes into the world…whether its made by nature or not. Ad Ad – content continues below Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01BHHE7AS/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Shivers](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/shivers-3.jpg?w=1024) ## Shivers (1975) David Cronenberg’s debut movie was also an infection film – but one that’s quite different. Set in a very 70s luxury apartment building, *Shivers* begins with a doctor murdering and cutting up what looks like a schoolgirl before taking his own life. It’s a strange opener for an even stranger film, a satirical body horror that sees residents of the block become infected by a parasite which turns them into manic sex fiends. It’s a descent into hell movie with an orgiastic climax which really put Cronenberg on the map. Watch in the US on: [Tubi](https://tubitv.com/movies/447847/shivers?utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed) (Free) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B06XC3GZGX/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Train To Busan](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/train-to-busan.jpg?w=1024) ## Train To Busan (2016) This excellent Korean zombie movie is a scary depiction of how fast a virus can spread. An absent father, Seok-woo, boards a train from Seoul to Busan with his daughter while one infected woman boards a different carriage. Soon every passenger in that carriage is infected and Seok-woo must work with other commuters to try to keep the healthy cars separate from the infected. Emotional and thrilling with breakneck pacing. A sequel, called *Peninsula* was [due to land this summer](https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/02/29/train-to-busan-sequel-peninsula-confirms-summer-release.html), but will likely suffer the same fate as many other upcoming releases. Watch in the US on: [Vudu](https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Train-to-Busan/823460) (Free) Ad Ad – content continues below Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Train-Busan-English-Subtitled-Gong/dp/B01MS6I4YJ/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Virus (1980)](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Virus.jpg?fit=1024%2C597) ## Virus (1980) Produced by Japan’s Toho Studios, *Virus* was directed by Kinji Fukasaku — who went on to make the legendary *Battle Royale* 20 years later — and was for its time the most expensive Japanese film in history. It uses an international cast, featuring stars such as Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos and Glenn Ford, to detail the efforts of a small group of scientists to find the cure for a virus that has wiped out nearly all of humanity. The film’s length (156 minutes) and global scope give it an epic feel despite its overall bleak storyline. 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Readable Markdown	![](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rosie-Fletcher-Headshot.jpg?fit=133%2C200&resize=200%2C200&filter=grayscale) By [Rosie Fletcher](https://www.denofgeek.com/author/rosie-fletcher/), [Don Kaye](https://www.denofgeek.com/author/don-kaye/) \\| March 20, 2020 \\| ![Pandemic and Virus Outbreak Movies](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pandemic-virus-outbreak-movies.jpg?resize=768%2C432) Horror movies are the perfect place to explore our fears in the safety of our own homes. So it stands to reason that since we’re all stuck self-isolating in our own homes we should want to explore our abject terror of the COVID-19 virus driving ordinarily sane people to stockpile booze and toilet paper outside. Perhaps it’s a fascination with the movies that predicted how a pandemic would play out that put [Steven Soderberg’s](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/contagion-warning-lies-coronavirus/) *[Contagion](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/contagion-warning-lies-coronavirus/)* in the top ten most rented list on iTunes. Maybe it’s watching characters you can relate to dealing with a brand new disease in a story that’s ultimately fiction that has landed *Outbreak* in the Netflix top ten. It’s not surprising we suddenly seem to have an appetite for infection and quarantine movies, so here are some of the best ones and where you can stream them from home. ![12 Monkeys](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/12-Monkeys.jpg?fit=1024%2C704) ## 12 Monkeys (1995) In Terry Gilliam’s masterful sci-fi fable, an unbalanced prisoner named Cole (Bruce Willis) is sent back in time to 1996 from 2035, where the remnants of humanity live underground. His mission: to find and procure a sample of the virus that wiped out civilization so that future scientists can study it and find a cure. Based on the French short film *La Jetee, 12 Monkeys* is about the way that human intellect and emotion can distort time and reality, and its vision of a fading society buried underground by the spread of a pathogen is a chilling central metaphor. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/12-Monkeys-Joseph-Melito/dp/B000I8COCQ/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/movie/12-monkeys-87dab8ef-1279-47cd-a587-315c58ecd4a1) ![28 Days Later](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/28-day-later.jpg?fit=1024%2C576) ## 28 Days Later (2002) The seminal ‘running zombie’ movie from Danny Boyle finds a place on the list, where other zombie films may not because of its clarity that the outbreak is caused by animals infected with a virus These aren’t reanimated undead, but sick people. The virus is nicknamed ‘rage’ and sees the infected become insanely violent and highly contagious. Our hero is Cillian Murphy, unaware of the virus because of a stint in hospital in a coma, who finds London a deserted wasteland just 28 days after the outbreak began. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00D95JXL0/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/movie/28-days-later-83d001f9-979e-4a5b-99c1-95def26fed72?entity_id=83d001f9-979e-4a5b-99c1-95def26fed72) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/28-Days-Later-Cillian-Murphy/dp/B00NJ1AWE6/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![The Andromeda Strain](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Andromeda-Strain.jpg?fit=1024%2C576) ## The Andromeda Strain (1971) Based on Michael Crichton’s best selling 1969 novel, *The Andromeda Strain* chronicles the desperate efforts of a team of four scientists to solve the mystery of a fast-mutating extraterrestrial virus before it can spread throughout the world. The claustrophobic underground lab setting makes the film feel intimate even as the ramifications of the Andromeda organism are catastrophic and terrifying. Directed with pulse-pounding urgency by the great Robert Wise, the film’s focus on science makes it that much more realistic — and frightening. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00D5UK7FA/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Andromeda-Strain-Arthur-Hill/dp/B01AYESISC/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![The Bay](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-bay.jpg?fit=1024%2C682) ## The Bay (2013) Oscar winner Barry Levinson (Rain Man) is the unexpected director of this underrated eco-horror which sees a coastal Maryland town infected by a flesh eating fish parasite. A found footage movie with several strands told via local reporting, phone footage, social media, and police surveillance it’s a cautionary tale which Levinson says is largely based on fact. Watch in the US on: [Shudder](https://www.shudder.com/) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bay-Christopher-Denham/dp/B00H37FCJ2/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Blindness](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Blindness.jpg?fit=1024%2C690) ## Blindness (2008) A highly communicable disease renders much of the world’s population blind in this film from director Fernando Meirelles (*The Two Popes) based on Jose Saramago’s novel. None of the characters — in a cast led by Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo — are named, as the film follows the book’s metaphorical nature while not shying away from the atrocities that occur as civilization collapses. Less about science and more about human nature, Blindness* suggests that humanity will need to adapt different perspectives to survive a global catastrophe — a lesson worth remembering as we work our way through the COVID-19 crisis. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00BR2HM56/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blindness-Mark-Ruffalo/dp/B01MTB0MYW/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Cabin Fever](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cabin-fever.jpg?w=1024) ## Cabin Fever (2003) What’s that you say? You’ve got Cabin Fever? Thank your lucky stars it’s not this kind! Eli Roth’s feature debut was this comedy horror which sees a group of kids vacationing in a cabin attacked by a flesh eating virus. It’s extremely gory and gross (that leg shaving scene, eesh), but it’s also quite funny and sharp in how it plays with horror tropes. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00BZBSWT4/ref=atv_dl_rdr&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [STARZPLAY](https://www.starz.com/gb/en/), [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cabin-Fever-Jordan-Ladd/dp/B00G04EF8S/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Carriers](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/carriers.jpg?w=1024) ## Carriers (2009) Chris Pine stars in this post-apocalyptic road movie which sees a virus wipe out much of the population. An as yet uninfected foursome head out to a small resort they believe is plague-free where they plan to wait out the pandemic. On the way they encounter desperate survivors and dangerous factions and eventually turn on each other. Not the most cheerful of the movies on this list. Watch in the US on: [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/watch/70122722?source=35) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/CARRIERS-Lou-Taylor-Pucci/dp/B00H37DU8C/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Children of Men](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Children-Of-Men.png?fit=1024%2C557) ## Children of Men (2006) Director Alfonso Cuaron’s modern classic could well be the most frightening film on this list in many ways — because of both Cuaron’s hyper-realistic style of filmmaking and because its world is so recognizably our own in many ways. With an unknown malady preventing the birth of any new children for 18 years (following a global flu pandemic), the world is on the brink of societal collapse. Only one lone young woman — who is somehow pregnant — provides a beacon of hope against a storm of despair. The film’s lasting theme of faith against all odds may end up being a balm in these uncertain days. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Children-Men-Clive-Owen/dp/B000OW8DW6/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [Hulu](https://www.hulu.com/movie/children-of-men-b83bfcac-d1a7-4df4-a3cc-4fa52d8c009d) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Men-Clive-Owen/dp/B00LHZLY8Y/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Gwyneth Paltrow in Contagion](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/contagion.jpg?w=620) ## Contagion (2011) Steven Soderbergh’s realistic depiction of what might happen in the wake of a pandemic sees doctors struggling to identify the cause of a deadly virus and attempt to develop a vaccine while cities are under quarantine, false reports are causing panic buying, and supplies of the inoculation aren’t sufficient to treat everyone at risk. Featuring an all star cast including Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, and Gwyneth Paltrow it’s a classy and slightly terrifying look outside our own window. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Contagion-Marion-Cotillard/dp/B006IVBSBU/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ## Latest Movie reviews Watch in the UK on: Netflix,[Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Contagion-Gwyneth-Paltrow/dp/B00G3ECHEY/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![The Crazies](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Crazies.jpg?fit=1024%2C683) ## The Crazies (1973/2010) Legendary director George A. Romero (*Night of the Living Dead) made the original Crazies* in 1973, focusing on a small town decimated by a biological weapon and finished off by the incompetence of the government that tries to contain the outbreak. Romero’s film was crudely made but razor-sharp in its skewering of the bureaucratic and military mindset; a 2010 remake from director Breck Eisner is less satirical, more polished and intense, and in the end, more effective. Both are worth a watch. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Crazies-Lane-Carroll/dp/B07KPNBR1D/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) (both free for Prime members; 2010 version available to rent/buy) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime (2010)](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crazies-Timothy-Olyphant/dp/B0823P8RS9/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![It Comes at Night](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/it_comes_at_night_2.jpg?w=1024) ## It Comes At Night (2017) Despite what the misleading trailer suggested this is not a zombie movie, but it is an infection film, of sorts, which sees a couple and their teenage son self isolating in the woods because of an unseen threat that’s taken over the world. But when a young couple and their child arrive seeking refuge the family’s domestic stability is shaken. Metaphorical, intelligent, and scary, *It Comes at Night* is one bleak quarantine movie. Watch in the US on: [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/watch/80174959?source=35) Watch it on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comes-at-Night-Joel-Edgerton/dp/B076VQ54MV/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![The Masque of the Red Death](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Masque-Of-The-Red-Death.jpg?fit=1024%2C515) ## The Masque of the Red Death (1964) The seventh and most experimental of cult filmmaker Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, *The Masque of the Red Death* is a medieval fable set in an unnamed Italian village, where a sadistic prince (Vincent Price) lords over both the poor villagers outside his palace walls and the debauched guests at a ball within. As a plague sweeps the land, he orders the village burned to stop it — but that doesn’t prevent the Red Death from ultimately piercing the palace walls. *Masque* may be a fantasy, but its ultimate message — that disease and death do not distinguish between rich and poor — holds true. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/Masque-Red-Death-Vincent-Prince/dp/B0095DMCZO/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Outbreak](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/outbreak.jpg?w=1024) ## Outbreak (1995) A classic infection blockbuster from Wolfgang Peterson where we see medics battling with a virus brought to a Californian town by an African monkey. *Outbreak* is glossy and thrilling and much more self contained than something like Contagion – making it less a pandemic movie but a race to contain the virus mixed with some high octane conspiracy theory business. Watch in the US on: [Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/search?q=outbreak&jbv=834585&jbp=0&jbr=0) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Outbreak-Dustin-Hoffman/dp/B00I6WLY4A/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Panic in the Streets](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Panic-In-The-Streets.jpg?fit=1024%2C576) ## Panic in the Streets (1950) A lot of fantastic directors have tackled the pandemic theme at least once, and this time out it’s Elia Kazan. His noirish 1950 thriller is, like Sturges’ *The Satan Bug, more about preventing a crisis than living through one, as a public health official and a New Orleans cop must track down three thugs — who inadvertently murdered a man carrying pneumonic plague and might now be infected themselves. The two leads — played by Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas — show the kind of determination and resilience that we can always use more of. Watch in the US on:* [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00CZEM6IS/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panic-Streets-Richard-Widmark/dp/B07FYW798N/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Pontypool](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/pontypool.jpg?w=1024) ## Pontypool (2009) Sort of a zombie movie, sort of an infection movie, and sort of a quarantine film this clever Canadian horror from Bruce McDonald sees Stephen McHattie as a radio DJ narrating an unfolding outbreak of something happening outside his studio. McHattie carries the movie, which is a smart way to simulate a pandemic and create a feeling of panic on a very low budget, via a film which takes place almost entirely in one room. Watch in the US on: [iTunes](https://www.amazon.com/Pontypool-Stephen-McHattie/dp/B006OGNAX8&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07PB4SP9C/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Quaratine](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/quarantine.jpg?w=1024) ## Quarantine (2008) This American remake of *\[REC\]* starring *Dexter’s Jennifer Carpenter is fine but removes some of the strangeness and ambiguity of the original. Here the virus’ origins and effects are explicitly stated rather than left in the background. It’s still effective enough, and several of the best scares are ‘shock for shock’ with \[REC\]. Watch in the US on:* [Crackle](https://www.netflix.com/browse) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quarantine-Columbus-Short/dp/B00FYNYWZ2/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![\[REC\]](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/REC.jpg?w=1024) ## \[REC\] (2007) Less interested in global infrastructure and more in scaring the living crap out of audiences, this snappy Spanish horror from Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza sees a reporter and her cameraman go on a ride-along with an emergency services team who are called to an apartment building during a disturbance. Once they’re inside they realize some sort of infection is spreading fast and they’re suddenly quarantined inside. And things are about to get weirder. A very effective found footage movie with a nerve jangling ending, *\[REC\]* inspired three serviceable sequels, but none are as powerful as the original. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00BRAK0IY/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20), [GooglePlay](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details?id=1JOup45nQ7E) ![The Satan Bug](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Satan-Bug.jpg?fit=1024%2C438) ## The Satan Bug (1965) Produced and directed by John Sturges (*The Magnificent Seven),* *The Satan Bug* details the search by government agents for a missing vial containing the title pathogen, a biological weapon that could wipe out all human life in a matter of months. The film (like the novel its based on) is more of a tense chase thriller than a pandemic story, but it points up the implications of what could happen if a little glass tube full of death escapes into the world…whether its made by nature or not. Watch in the US on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B01BHHE7AS/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Shivers](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/shivers-3.jpg?w=1024) ## Shivers (1975) David Cronenberg’s debut movie was also an infection film – but one that’s quite different. Set in a very 70s luxury apartment building, *Shivers* begins with a doctor murdering and cutting up what looks like a schoolgirl before taking his own life. It’s a strange opener for an even stranger film, a satirical body horror that sees residents of the block become infected by a parasite which turns them into manic sex fiends. It’s a descent into hell movie with an orgiastic climax which really put Cronenberg on the map. Watch in the US on: [Tubi](https://tubitv.com/movies/447847/shivers?utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed) (Free) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B06XC3GZGX/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Train To Busan](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/train-to-busan.jpg?w=1024) ## Train To Busan (2016) This excellent Korean zombie movie is a scary depiction of how fast a virus can spread. An absent father, Seok-woo, boards a train from Seoul to Busan with his daughter while one infected woman boards a different carriage. Soon every passenger in that carriage is infected and Seok-woo must work with other commuters to try to keep the healthy cars separate from the infected. Emotional and thrilling with breakneck pacing. A sequel, called *Peninsula* was [due to land this summer](https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/02/29/train-to-busan-sequel-peninsula-confirms-summer-release.html), but will likely suffer the same fate as many other upcoming releases. Watch in the US on: [Vudu](https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/Train-to-Busan/823460) (Free) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Train-Busan-English-Subtitled-Gong/dp/B01MS6I4YJ/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) ![Virus (1980)](https://www.denofgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Virus.jpg?fit=1024%2C597) ## Virus (1980) Produced by Japan’s Toho Studios, *Virus* was directed by Kinji Fukasaku — who went on to make the legendary *Battle Royale* 20 years later — and was for its time the most expensive Japanese film in history. It uses an international cast, featuring stars such as Sonny Chiba, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia Hussey, Edward James Olmos and Glenn Ford, to detail the efforts of a small group of scientists to find the cure for a virus that has wiped out nearly all of humanity. The film’s length (156 minutes) and global scope give it an epic feel despite its overall bleak storyline. Watch in the US on: [Tubi](https://tubitv.com/movies/309701/virus_day_of_resurrection?utm_source=google-feed&tracking=google-feed) (Free), [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07GCKXJW9/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20) Watch in the UK on: [Amazon Prime](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Virus-Chuck-Conners/dp/B07G5CCMSS/&tag=wwwdenofgeeku-20)
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