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Movies like Wild House (2021)

The best movies like Wild House (2021) are Captive (2020), Play Dead (2025) and The Boy Behind the Door (2020). If Wild House hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Captive (2020)

    A teenage runaway who’s trapped by a delusional man, pretends to be his daughter in order to escape.

    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. 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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  4. Tau (2018)

    Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  5. Saw (2003)

    David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  6. 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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  7. Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

    Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  8. Get Out (2017)

    Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  9. 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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  10. Whisper (2007)

    Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  11. The Den (2013)

    A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  12. Dead of Winter (1987)

    A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  13. The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)

    Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  14. The Asphyx (1972)

    Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  15. 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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  16. The Final (2010)

    A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  17. Locked (2025)

    When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  18. The Fair Haired Child (2006)

    A creepy couple kidnaps a teenage outcast and locks her in their basement with their seemingly kindhearted adolescent son - who harbors a terrifying secret involving the forces of evil.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

  19. 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

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  20. Grindhouse (2007)

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  21. Black Mountain Side (2016)

    A group of archaeologists working in Northern Canada uncover a strange structure dating over ten thousand years before the present. The team soon finds themselves isolated when their communication systems fail and they begin to feel the effects of solitude.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

  22. Blood: The Last Vampire (2000)

    In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

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  23. Bliss of Evil (2022)

    A sound engineer struggling in the aftermath of trauma is forced to face her fears when she's locked in a music studio with her girlfriend's grunge band. Mistrust and mayhem erupt as they search for answers and a way out.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

  24. Dead in 3 Days (2006)

    When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank - until one by one, the pals start turning up dead in the alpine countryside. With the cops stymied, Nina and her remaining friends must scour their past for clues to identify the madman before he kills them all.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

  25. The Lost Boys (1987)

    When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

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  26. Singapore Sling (1990)

    Singapore Sling pursues Laura, a romantic memory from his past. One night, he finds himself at a mysterious villa, watching two women bury a body. He falls into their trap and, in an atmosphere of isolation and decadence, the trio act out insane pleasure games and a ritual of blood and murder.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

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  27. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

    In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

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  28. Until You're Alone (2026)

    After becoming the lead suspect in a series of brutal slayings, a close-minded architect must team up with a free-spirited sex worker in order to clear his name and solve the crimes before they become the killer's next victims in this suspenseful, stylish, and hilarious queer love letter to Hitchcock, De Palma, and the Italian giallo.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

  29. RoomMate (2013)

    Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. However, Harumi begins to witness a series of mysterious events soon after noticing Reiko's strange behavior. Additionally, she fears for her own safety when Reiko starts referring to herself as 'Mari' as if she's become an entirely different person. Before long, the situation develops into a case of murder.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

  30. Pilgrim (2019)

    In an attempt to remind her family of their privilege and help them bond, Ms. Anna Barker invites Pilgrim reenactors to stay with them over Thanksgiving. When the “actors” refuse to break character, the Barker family learns that there is such a thing as too much gratitude.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Wild House?

The closest matches to Wild House are Captive (2020), Play Dead (2025) and The Boy Behind the Door (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Wild House?

Start with Captive (2020), the closest match to Wild House.

What is the highest-rated movie like Wild House?

Get Out (2017), rated 7.6/10 by 19,631 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Wild House?

Until You're Alone (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Wild House?

Yes: Captive (2020), Play Dead (2025) and The Boy Behind the Door (2020).

How are movies similar to Wild House chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Wild House, 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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