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Films like Sky Sharks.

Sky Sharks (2020) reads as Neutral, breathless, extreme horror / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Bounty Killer (2013) poster
1. Bounty Killer2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Terra Formars (2016) poster
2. Terra Formars2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Glorious (2022) poster
3. Glorious2022

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

PG: Psycho Goreman (2020) poster
4. PG: Psycho Goreman2020

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the strange, dreamlike logic; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Mega Piranha (2010) poster
5. Mega Piranha2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Evil Aliens (2006) poster
6. Evil Aliens2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) poster
7. Starship Troopers 3: Marauder2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

RoboGeisha (2009) poster
8. RoboGeisha2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a world-sized stakes.

Lavalantula (2015) poster
9. Lavalantula2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a chilly detachment.

Kids vs. Aliens (2023) poster
10. Kids vs. Aliens2023

Keeps the documentary-plain realism and the world-sized stakes; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) poster
11. Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a running vein of humour.

Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012) poster
12. Nazis at the Center of the Earth2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the documentary-plain realism; trades toward a clean studio craft.

These are Sky Sharks’s neighbours — where are yours?

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