Films like The Maze Runner.

The Maze Runner (2014) reads as Sombre, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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.

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) poster
1. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials2015

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hotel Artemis (2018) poster
2. Hotel Artemis2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Ajin: Demi-Human (2017) poster
3. Ajin: Demi-Human2017

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Deliver Us from Evil (2014) poster
4. Deliver Us from Evil2014

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Island (2005) (2005) poster
5. The Island2005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) poster
6. Maze Runner: The Death Cure2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Sputnik (2020) poster
7. Sputnik2020

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Priests (2015) poster
8. The Priests2015

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Annabelle: Creation (2017) poster
9. Annabelle: Creation2017

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The New Mutants (2020) poster
10. The New Mutants2020

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the white-knuckle intensity; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Victor Frankenstein (2015) poster
11. Victor Frankenstein2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Haunters (2010) poster
12. Haunters2010

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are The Maze Runner’s neighbours — where are yours?

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