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Movies like The Bed (1982)

The best movies like The Bed (1982) are Dust Bunny (2025), Play Dead (2025) and Never Let Go (2024). If The Bed hooked you with its horror, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Dust Bunny (2025)

    Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster under her bed that she claims ate her family. To protect her, he must battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting that some monsters are real.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  2. Play Dead (2025)

    A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  3. Never Let Go (2024)

    As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  4. Barbarian (2022)

    In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  5. Reborn (2018)

    A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying violent destruction and chilling chaos behind her.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  6. The Boy Behind the Door (2020)

    Bobby tries to save himself and his best friend when they are kidnapped on their way home from school.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  7. The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)

    Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  8. The Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)

    Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison in the world

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  9. Nightmare Cinema (2018)

    A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

  10. Pearl (2022)

    Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  11. Play Dead (2022)

    Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  12. The Wailer (2006)

    On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  13. The Devil Comes at Night (2023)

    A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  14. Saint Catherine (2024)

    An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  15. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)

    Now confined to a mental hospital, young Kirsty insists her supposedly dead father is actually stuck in Hell following his wife’s betrayal. Few believe the young woman’s lurid stories aside from the thrill-seeking Dr. Channard. Kirsty is undeterred and, with the help of a fellow patient, heads to Hell for a rescue.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  16. Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1974)

    A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night from her minister guardian, Lila embarks on a terrifying journey...

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  17. The Curse of Buckout Road (2017)

    A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  18. Pitfall (2025)

    After a young man is separated from his friends in the woods, he falls into a ten-foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through his leg and leaving him trapped. He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  19. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

    Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her nameless traveller fiancé arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  20. Ghostland (2018)

    A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like The Bed?

The closest matches to The Bed are Dust Bunny (2025), Play Dead (2025) and Never Let Go (2024). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after The Bed?

Start with Dust Bunny (2025), the closest match to The Bed.

What is the highest-rated movie like The Bed?

Ghostland (2018), rated 7.4/10 by 2,789 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like The Bed?

Dust Bunny (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like The Bed?

Yes: Dust Bunny (2025), Play Dead (2025) and Never Let Go (2024).

How are movies similar to The Bed chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Bed, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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