Movies like Cindy (2023)

Paranormal Activity (2009)

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)

Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding a sinister secret.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023)

A group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is discovered on their footage is even more disturbing than anything found on the Hell House tapes.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

Hell House LLC (2015)

Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

Phoenix Forgotten (2017)

Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

The Inhabitant (2022)

Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

Haunter (2013)

A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)

When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

Strange Harvest (2025)

Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery

All That We Destroy (2019)

A geneticist who fears that her son may be becoming a serial killer creates a group of clones in an attempt to cure him of his psychopathic tendencies by allowing him to relive the murder of his first victim.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

V/H/S/99 (2022)

A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

V/H/S/94 (2021)

After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

V/H/S/2 (2013)

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

V/H/S (2012)

When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

V/H/S/Halloween (2025)

A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Crimes of the Future (2022)

With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Assimilate (2019)

Three friends making a web series about their town discover that their neighbors are being killed and replaced by creatures who are perfect copies of their victims.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

A Nasty Piece of Work (2019)

A mid-level corporate employee finds out he’s not getting the Christmas bonus he was expecting, but his boss invites him to earn a promotion by beating his professional rival in a violent competition.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

The Forbidden Door (2009)

A successful sculptor's life is turned upside down when he starts to receive mysterious messages from someone asking for his help. As he digs deeper, he discovers a boy is being abused and has to choose between saving the boy or losing everything.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & mystery

Sea of Trees (TBA)

Nearly two decades after the unexplained disappearance of a vlogger in England’s Epping Forest, a documentary crew ventures into the same woods to uncover the truth—only to find themselves drawn into a chilling mystery where folklore, grief, and the act of filming begin to blur the line between reality and something far more sinister.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & mystery

The John Perkins Tapes (2024)

This is the recovered footage of serial killer Johns Perkins, who filmed his victims, creating what he believed to be artistic videos.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Bloodthirsty (2026)

On the night of their anniversary, Sarah is unexpectedly called into work but when a sudden zombie outbreak traps her inside, Brian must fight through the chaos to reach her before it's too late.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Crybaby Bridge (2013)

Nick, Ryan, and Bill have a dream: to have their own hunting show on television. With the help of their camera man Craig and the funding of the National Gun Owners of America, they are given the chance at a trial run, a documentary about the hunting experience. But when they cross the bridge and into the woods beyond, the hunters find themselves in the midst of the legend of Elizabeth, a vengeful specter willing to do whatever it takes to be reunited with her lost child. As the documentary progresses, the strange events continue to escalate to a deadly climax. Can the hunters save themselves from becoming the hunted, or are they doomed to be become a permanent part of the legend of Crybaby Bridge?

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Furocious (2017)

A food delivery man delivers to a very...different customer.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

De Profundis: Out of the Depths (2010)

A weekend getaway turns into a night of horror for a family on vacation at a remote cabin. A priest returns twenty years after "the incident" to stop an evil that haunts it. Can the priest exorcise the demon in time to save the girl's life and close the gates of hell?

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

The King In Yellow (2023)

In four intersecting stories, a supernatural play causes supernatural horror to befall any who read it

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Baara Number (TBA)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Meadowoods (2010)

In a sleepy and uneventful small town, three college students, bored and desperate to make their mark, plot a savage and merciless murder. Electing to keep a video journal to memorialize their bizarre pact, they plot in secret, devising a homemade death chamber that will allow them to see, hear, feel, and linger over their intended victim's torment and final moments of life. Then, chosen at random, a fellow student becomes this victim when she is to receive perhaps the most brutal and horrifying of all fates. The default leader of this macabre trio directs the physical and psychological terror, even as contention and hostility within the group threatens to jeopardize their twisted plan, culminating in a violent and chilling conclusion.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror