Movies like The Sender

Adapting another Stephen King story, The Dead Zone is about a man who awakens from a coma to discover he has psychic premonitions. This film digs into the moral dilemmas faced by someone with supernatural abilities, paralleling themes found in The Sender.

Scanners takes viewers into a dark world of individuals with psychic powers that lead to a series of explosive confrontations. Fans of The Sender's exploration of mental powers and their catastrophic consequences will be thrilled by this early example of body horror and suspense.

An adaptation of Stephen King's novel, Firestarter delves into the life of a young girl with pyrokinesis being hunted by a government agency. Like The Sender, it combines the theme of psychic abilities with a government's desire to control or manipulate that power.

Altered States explores a scientist's self-experimentation with consciousness-altering substances, which leads to unexpected and terrifying physical and mental transformations. Its blend of scientific exploration and the manifestation of the intangible will appeal to audiences who enjoyed The Sender's psychological depths.

Directed by Brian De Palma, The Fury features a government agency pursuing teenagers with psychic abilities for their own ends. Its focus on telekinesis and the potential for such powers to be weaponized will resonate with fans of The Sender's psychic phenomena.