Have you ever seen a movie and thought, maybe this hits just a little too close to home? As coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread around the world, it is constantly on people's minds. If you're a fan of pandemic films, however, it probably won't do much to help ease any concerns about the current situation. The pandemic genre does a great job of showing how the world will respond in similar, but fictional, scenarios. Right now, though, the following films might be a bit TOO real for comfort.

Contagion

Out of all the movies on this list, Contagion bears the most shockingly eerie resemblance to our current reality. The film depicts an influenza pandemic called MEV-1 (COVID-19, anyone?) that originates from a bat that infects a pig that was then sold at an outdoor Chinese market before infecting and killing millions of people worldwide. According to experts, the real-life coronavirus is believed to have originated from bats as well, and the initial cases were traced to an outdoor market in China.

Thankfully the current situation is not yet as dire as the one presented in the movie, although the rate at which coronavirus is spreading may cause some to believe this film is a vision of what's to come. Since the initial news broke of the outbreak, Contagion has become one of the most streamed films of the year so far.

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28 Days Later

In 28 Days Later, a highly contagious virus is released in Great Britain after animal liberation activists attempt to free chimpanzees that are later found to be infected with the virus. The protagonist, Jim, a bicycle courier who falls into a coma after an accident, wakes up in the hospital 28 days after the outbreak to find London deserted.

The film's iconic scenes showcasing a London that has been left abandoned for 28 days are eerily reminiscent of the photos from around the world right now showing empty streets in Europe, Korea and China. If that wasn't unnerving enough, in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus was first reported, the patient quarantine period was recently extended from 14 to 28 days.

Train To Busan

Marvel's The Eternals actor Don Lee/Ma Dong-Seok stars in the South Korean film, Train To Busan. The movie tells the story of a hardworking but largely absent single father and his daughter as they make their journey to the sanctuary city of Busan, Korea in the midst of a zombie epidemic. The setting is what makes this film seem just a bit too real, as South Korea is one of the nations hit hardest by the coronavirus. A sequel, titled Peninsula, is due for release later this year.

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World War Z

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While the coronavirus does not turn people into zombies (let's call that the bright side!), zombie pandemic film, World War Z, still offers a good parallel to the reality of how the virus is spread around the world. The film goes out of its way to note that airlines are the "perfect delivery system" for a virus to spread. The coronavirus bears this out, as air travel  was one of the main factors that allowed it to spread to all corners of the world, from Asia to America to Europe to Australia.

Like our present reality, in World War Z, world  governments and other organizations fail to implement timely preventative measures, causing the situation to become much more widespread and deadly than it might have been otherwise. In the movie, this also results in societal breakdown, riots, looting and mass panic. Fortunately, while real-world supermarkets have been ransacked by people panic buying everything from toilet paper to bottled water, there haven't been cases of violent looting yet.

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (2011)

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In this reboot of 1968's Planet Of The Apes, an untested viral treatment for Alzheimer's disease proves fatal to humans and subsequently spreads around the globe, leading to a pandemic called the Simian Flu. In the real world, a city in Thailand has been overrun by hungry monkeys after the tourists that usually feed them have stayed away due to the coronavirus.

The parallels to reality continue in the reboot's sequel, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, where some humans attack those they believe have contracted the virus, not unlike recent reports of xenophobic violence and vandalism against people of Asian descent due to the news that the coronavirus originated in China.

The Andromeda Strain

This '70s sci-fi film based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name shows what a pandemic would look like if it came from above. Arthur Hill stars as Dr. Jeremy Stone, who discovers an organism that can almost instantly kill any living thing while recovering a satellite from a town in which the entire population has died. While thankfully not completely accurate, the film portrays the fear provoked by the mystery of an unknown killer disease quite well, and has been praised for its realistic portrayal of scientists.

Many films in the pandemic genre serve as a warning on the devastating effects of poor policy or insufficient prevention methods in the face of such global threats. The novel coronavirus has already impacted life in ways we couldn't have predicted just months ago. It's forced the cancellation of entertainment events such as CinemaCon and the delay of highly anticipated films like No Time To Die. We can always count on a good pandemic film to remind us that sometimes the scariest villains aren't of supernatural or alien origins, but something a bit closer to our reality.

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