Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Kraken follows a marine biologist stationed at a Norwegian fish farm who begins investigating strange deaths — including two teenagers — that all seem to point toward something living in the fjord below. It sits squarely in the creature-horror tradition where scientific curiosity becomes a liability: the deeper you look, the worse it gets. Fans drawn to cold-water dread, unexplained deaths at sea, and monsters that operate on their own terms rather than a villain's agenda tend to find this one a natural entry point.
Kraken is a 2026 Norwegian monster action horror film directed by Pål Øie, written by Vilde Eide, Kjersti Helen Rasmussen, and Natasha Arthur and from the story of Øie and Sjur Aarthun. The film stars Sara Khorami, Mikkel Bratt Silset, and Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes. It follows a marine biologist investigating strange deaths in a Norwegian fjord that may be linked to the legendary sea monster.
From the Wikipedia article Kraken_(2026_film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Surface
A marine biologist investigates dangerous new sea life while authorities work to suppress what she finds.
Series
A Place Further than the Universe
Four girls mount an expedition to Antarctica to find a friend's mother who vanished there years before.
Series
Ghost Hound
Three boys with traumatic pasts begin crossing into the Unseen World lurking beneath their quiet Japanese town.
Series
Creature
An amphibious monster emerges from the sea and attacks the people who have moved into its territory.
Series
The Deep
A family of underwater explorers ventures into uncharted ocean to unravel the deep's hidden mysteries.
Series
Blackwater
Four lives collide when a pair of tourists are found murdered near a remote mountain town in the 1970s.
Game
Kraken Academy!!
A malevolent mastermind lurks beneath a seemingly ordinary school where something monstrous is pulling strings.
Game
Depth
Players inhabit predator and prey in a dark underwater world built on tension, stealth, and lethal encounters.
Game
The Coma: Recut
A student becomes trapped in a horror scenario with a pursuer whose motives remain terrifyingly unclear.
Game
Sea Salt
An Old God summons tides of creatures upon humanity, blending cosmic menace with relentless predatory force.
Game
Distrust
Stranded explorers in an Arctic base sink deeper into a nightmare as an unseen threat picks them apart.
Game
Murky Divers
A dive team descends to erase evidence of failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs — if they survive.
Book
Meg
A researcher who survived an encounter with a prehistoric predator in the ocean's deepest canyon is not believed.
Book
Goosebumps - Deep Trouble
Two siblings explore underwater near a Caribbean island and encounter something they were warned to avoid.
Book
Meg
A scientist insists a prehistoric apex predator still hunts the deepest trench in the Pacific Ocean.
Book
What Moves the Dead
A retired soldier races to a remote estate and finds something ancient and biological consuming everything there.
Book
Der Schwarm
Strange organisms claiming vast stretches of ocean floor coincide with baffling behaviour from the whales above.
Book
The 50/50 Killer
A new investigator has a single day to locate two missing people and the killer who took them.
Film
Kraken
A search vessel hunts a vanished Russian submarine in the Greenland Sea, captained by the missing commander's brother.
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Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep
A decades-old encounter with a lethal sea creature drives a revenge expedition into dangerous open water.
Film
Underwater
Survivors race across miles of dark ocean floor against unknown threats and dwindling time.
Film
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
A teenage girl discovers she's heir to a line of kraken warriors sworn to protect the oceans.
Film
Harbinger Down
Graduate students on a research vessel dredge up something that brings horror aboard with it.
Film
Humanoids from the Deep
Mutated sea creatures emerge from waters near a coastal town after human interference with the food chain.
For more cold-water creature dread, Underwater drops its characters straight into the crushing dark of the ocean floor. If you want something slower-burning with a scientific protagonist, Surface (2005) follows a marine biologist dealing with a government cover-up of dangerous new sea life.
Depth puts you directly into the tension of the deep as either predator or prey in a dark aquatic world. Murky Divers takes a more co-op approach — dive teams descending into abandoned underwater labs to erase evidence of things that went very wrong.
Der Schwarm is the closest match: mysterious organisms claiming vast stretches of ocean floor, disappearing fishermen, and whales behaving in ways no one can explain. Meg goes further into pulp creature-feature territory, following a researcher who survived a prehistoric predator in the Pacific's deepest canyon.