Movies like Dark Water (2007)
The best movies like Dark Water (2007) are Death Whisperer 2 (2024), Reborn (2018) and Dead Sea (2024). If Dark Water hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedZiam (2025)6.8/10 from 306 votes
- NewestDeath Whisperer 3 (2025)Released 2025
Death Whisperer 2 (2024)
Three years after his sister's death, Yak relentlessly searches for the dark spirit that killed her in hopes of seeking revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisReborn (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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead Sea (2024)
Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel's captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaint 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlay 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrank and Penelope (2022)
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAzrael (2024)
In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath Whisperer 3 (2025)
Malevolent forces and a vengeful spirit target a schoolgirl, forcing her brother to venture into a twisted forest to save her from an accursed cult.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbigail Haunting (2020)
After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade. Now, Katie finds herself caught up in a horrifying family drama while confronting an angry spirit named Abigail.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBody Cam (2020)
As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Shed (2019)
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dogs (2025)
After fleeing his psychotic father, a young teen and his mom seek refuge in a remote farmhouse, only to face a pack of ferocious dogs and the sinister spirits that haunt the property.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisArt of the Devil (2004)
When Boom suffers abandonment and abuse by Prathan, she decides to use black magic to take revenge on him and his family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight of the Hunted (2023)
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRace with the Devil (1975)
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArt of the Devil 3 (2008)
After Ta's mother is poisoned by his father, he finds himself in a dark and dangerous situation among demons when his family uses black magic to bring her back.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZiam (2025)
In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArt of the Devil 2 (2005)
A beautiful teacher is wronged by six of her students. Calling on demons and forces of black magic, she extracts an ultra-gruesome retribution against each of them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloodline Killer (2024)
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMeat Grinder (2009)
A poverty stricken woman starts a restaurant where she slaughters people and serves up human flesh, cut from her victims.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHell (2005)
While traveling, a crew of documentary makers meet a horrible fate when their van falls off a cliff. Though only one of them really dies, the rest are 'accidentally' dragged into hell where each are tortured according to their sins.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Body (2007)
A man tries to prove that his nightmares about a girl who screams for help and is then murdered are real, and contain a message reaching out to her murderer.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLizard Woman (2004)
A group of geologists is attacked by gecko fiends that possess them, transforming them into zombies. Kwan travels there to give lectures and is possessed by the evil gecko spirit, However, her skeptical boyfriend doctor doesn't understand what's happening to her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Victim (2006)
Ting, an actress for murder illustration is hired to simulate a real-life murder case of Min, a former Miss Thailand who was brutally killed.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Takien (2003)
While animal hunting, Wittaya and Lokrai inadvertently offend Nang Takien, the guardian spirit of the forest, who then kills Lokrai.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Scared (2005)
A group of freshmen on a road trip survive an accident, only to end up in an abandoned town where they are hunted down and killed one by one.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Unforgotten Love (2010)
Korn was hit at the head during a robbery, when he wake up, he lost his memory over what had happen before. Now he has to write down everything before he forgets them. However, Korn always feels that there is something happened to someone during the robbery and he has to find out before it's too late. Time passes and Korn is still unable to recall who is that "someone". One day, Korn was told about a haunted 13 floor near his house, and coincidentally he appears at that floor for some reason. Is it "someone" that draws Korn's attention to the 13th floor? What happened to that "someone" during the robbery?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Dead Bite (2011)
A band travelling by ship becomes stranded on Mermaid Island, and the locals hunt them down to make their forest goddess happy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Ponglang Amazing Theatre (2007)
Tomorn inherits an old and run-down theatre from his uncle. The Theatre is called Chalermpol Rama, where once was the glorious Theatre in town.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Dark Water?
The closest matches to Dark Water are Death Whisperer 2 (2024), Reborn (2018) and Dead Sea (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Dark Water?
Start with Death Whisperer 2 (2024), the closest match to Dark Water.
What is the highest-rated movie like Dark Water?
Ziam (2025), rated 6.8/10 by 306 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Dark Water?
Death Whisperer 3 (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Dark Water chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Dark Water, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.