12 Romantic Survival Movies Like Love And Monsters

The Dylan O’Brien movie Love and Monsters is finally getting the attention it deserves thanks to its success on streaming services. This has made people curious about what other movies have the same unique draw. Love and Monsters is a monster movie with a new twist that comes out in 2020. Dylan O’Brien plays Joel, a sweet but aimless slacker who lived through the “Monster apocalypse” but can’t find his purpose in a group of humans hiding from the monsters that are taking over the world. Seven years after the end of the world, this lonely hero goes after his high school girlfriend, facing all kinds of monsters along the way.

The ending of Love and Monsters is sad, but the story is surprisingly happy and romantic, given how sad the description sounds. Joel’s journey to find his ex-girlfriend is inspiring and full of danger thanks to the movie’s creative monsters. When they finally meet again, it shows that the movie has a sweet side to it. Because of this, a lot of people who liked Love and Monsters might look for more movies like it. There are a few movies like Love and Monsters in both tone and theme. Some are darker than Love and Monsters, while others are more family-friendly.

The Top 12 Movies Like Love and Monsters:

Monsters

Four years before he directed Godzilla, Gareth Edwards made the independent film Monsters, which was even slower and more deeply moving. Like Love and Monsters, Monsters is about a slow-burning love story that takes place in a world full of huge Love crafting monsters. There is a happy ending to both Love and Monsters, even though their love story is sad. This is because both movies show that love can grow even when the world ends.

Rampage

By the end of 2018, Rampage, moviegoers will either be laughing out loud or rolling their eyes at how silly the movie is. It doesn’t matter how silly the big monster movie is; this Dwayne Johnson movie is a lot of fun. Based on a video game with the same name, this fun adventure movie has Johnson’s brave Davis work with scientists and a huge albino gorilla to save Chicago from a huge wolf and crocodile that want to destroy it.

Okja

One could say that Love and Monsters and the Host are both similar movies because they are both about monsters but aren’t really about the monsters themselves. But Okja (2017) and the 2020 movie both have a happy, upbeat tone. In Okja, a young girl finds an experimental super-pig and has to stop a heartless company from stealing the “monster” that the story is named after. In a way similar to Love and Monsters, Okja is an unusually positive monster movie. Its story is more about love and family than anything scary.

Chaos Walking

The reviewers didn’t like this 2021 sci-fi version as much as they liked Love and Monsters, and Chaos Walking’s failure at the box office ended any hopes of more movies in the series. But, like Love and Monsters, Chaos Walking has a unique end of the world that leads to a sweet story between two characters who don’t seem to be related at first. Todd, played by Tom Holland, saves Viola, played by Daisy Ridley, from the people who live on his planet, which is only men. As he does this, he realizes that life as he knows it is based on a dark truth.

Daybreak

Netflix’s happy Lord of the Flies-style show is about a teenager named Josh who lives in a wasteland of wild teen gangs after all the adults in the world got the same virus and turned into zombie-like ghouls. In the show, Josh is set on getting back together with his one true love no matter what, and Angelica, a child genius, helps him.

Tremors

If Chaos Walking is like Love and Monsters in that it’s a post-apocalyptic YA love story, then Tremors is like the 2020 movie in that it has fast-paced action and set pieces that focus on monsters. This horror comedy stars Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward as two ne’er-do-wells from a small town who become unlikely heroes when monsters from the ground come to live in their town. This is one of the few monster movies that makes you laugh more than it scares. It has the same warmth and fun as Love and Monsters.

Warm Bodies

Another YA version is the movie Warm Bodies, which stars Nicholas Hoult. This one is different, though, because the main character is a zombie. Hoult does a great job making R, the zombie who falls in love with Teresa Palmer’s Julie, a good person. The ending of Warm Bodies isn’t as strong as the touching ending of Love and Monsters, but this is still a great coming-of-age horror-comedy that fans of the 2020 movie will enjoy because it has similar tones.

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Evolution

Even though Evolution, which came out in 2001, doesn’t take place after the end of the world, it has the same tone of humor, horror, romance, and adventure with its group of mismatched heroes fighting strange CGI monsters. After a meteorite hits the Arizona desert and turns into a monster, two teachers and a scientist must figure out how to stop the monsters from quickly changing into bigger monsters that want to take over the world. The movie is directed by Ivan Reitman. Evolution has monsters that look like the monsters in Love and Monsters. It also has a cute love story that is similar to the major plot of the 2020 movie.

Rim Of The World

Based on the hit show Stranger Things, which was mostly about kids, Rim of the World is about young teens who have to fight off aliens while they are at summer camp. You may have heard of this story before, but this horror-comedy has enough surprises and memorable bad guys to keep people wondering, just like Love and Monsters. Even less serious than Love and Monsters, but that might not be a bad thing for this silly monster movie.

Grabbers

It’s a clever idea behind the Irish independent film Grabbers (2012), which not many people saw. A huge alien crash-lands in a small Irish town, and two police officers who don’t get along quickly learn that the alien’s only weakness is alcohol, so getting drunk is the best way to stay away from it. There is a lot of wild fun, but what makes Grabbers so much like Love and Monsters is how the two main characters’ love story slowly builds. The odd pair of a happy new police officer and a bitter veteran make a cute couple just in time for the movie’s surprisingly happy finish.

Anna and the Apocalypse

You like zombies? You like musicals? Then this is for you. There are zombies coming to Little Haven and ruining Christmas. Anna and her classmates have to do whatever it takes to stay alive, and they have to sing along the way, of course.

Zombieland

There is no doubt that Zombieland, the hit movie of 2009, had a big impact on Love and Monsters. However, Zombieland’s many bloody deaths make it less family-friendly than Love and Monsters. Love and Monsters and Zombieland, on the other hand, are both about likeable slackers who join forces with tough survivalists and fall in love after the world ends. In both, the heroes have to avoid monsters that want to kill them and learn how to be strong and seize the day. The books are also surprisingly funny and light, even though they are about serious topics. This means that people who liked Love and Monsters should watch this 2009 horror comedy next.

Conclusion:

Stories about the end of the world don’t have to be dark and ominous all the time, as shown by movies like Love and Monsters. The stories in these movies are full of hope, fun, and heart, which makes them perfect for people who like exciting and sad stories.

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