Parasyte: The Grey

Series Similar to Parasyte: The Grey

If you enjoyed Parasyte: The Grey, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Sweet Home

   2020 · Action, Fantasy, Horror · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Horror profile, also on Netflix.

   Adapted from a popular webtoon of the same name, Sweet Home is a VFX/SFX filled thriller based on the unique world in which people turn into monsters that reflect their internal desires. Cha Hyun Soo, a reclusive high school student who moves into a new apartment called Green Home after a personal tragedy, faces a series of life changing situations that brings him out to the world to save others.

2. Tremors

   2003 · Action, Horror, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Horror profile, hidden gem.

   In this sequel to the theatrical and direct-to-video movies, the desert town of Perfection, Nevada, is under government protection because of the endangered species known as Graboids: large earth-burrowing worm-like creatures. Most of the residents of Perfection have refused to move, and now they have to cope with the Graboids and their variations, government agents, real-estate developers, other experiments from the same scientists who created the Graboids, and more.

3. All of Us Are Dead

   2022 · Drama, Horror · returning

   Recommended for similar Horror profile, also on Netflix.

   A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.

4. Travelers

   2016 · Drama, Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.1), also on Netflix.

   Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These Travelers assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.These travelers are: FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren, the team's leader; Marcy, a young, intellectually disabled woman in the care of her social worker, David; Trevor, a high school quarterback; Carly, a single mom in an abusive relationship; and Philip, a heroin-addicted college student.Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers discover that 21st century lives and relationships are as much a challenge as their high-stakes missions.

5. Happiness

   2021 · Action, Fantasy, Thriller · ended

   Recommended for similar Action profile.

   Happiness takes place in a time in which infectious diseases have become the new normal. In a newly constructed apartment in a large city where the higher floors are up for general sales and the lower floors are rented out, the series depicts the subtle psychological battle and the class discrimination that occurs. The city hits rock bottom when an impending apocalypse hits in the form of a new type of infectious disease in which people suffer from unabated thirst.

6. Stranger Things

   2016 · Drama, Horror, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Horror / Science-Fiction profile, highly rated (8.4), also on Netflix.

   When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.

7. Cowboy Bebop

   2021 · Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile, hidden gem, also on Netflix.

   Cowboy Bebop is about three bounty hunters, aka "cowboys," all trying to outrun the past. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, and Faye Valentine form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system's most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them. 

8. Z Nation

   2014 · Action, Horror, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Horror profile.

   Z Nation starts three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood. Although the antibodies he carries are the world's last, best hope for a vaccine, he hides a dark secret that threatens them all. With humankind's survival at stake, the ragtag band embarks on a journey of survival across three thousand miles of rusted-out post-apocalyptic America.

9. Halo

   2022 · Action, Science-Fiction · ended

   Recommended for similar Action / Science-Fiction profile.

   With the galaxy on the brink of destruction, Master Chief John-117 leads his team of Spartans against the alien threat known as the Covenant.

10. The Last of Us

    2023 · Drama, Action, Horror · returning

    Recommended for similar Action / Horror profile.

    After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity's last hope.