Movies like Black Water (2019)

The Watchers (2024)

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.

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

Nocebo (2022)

A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.

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

The Witch (2016)

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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

Abigail (2019)

A young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going against the authorities to find his father, Abby learns that her city is actually full of magic. And she discovers in herself extraordinary magical abilities.

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

Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House (2016)

Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.

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

Witch Hunt (2021)

In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.

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

Nightbooks (2021)

Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.

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

A Knight's War (2025)

A fearless knight braves a deadly realm to save the Chosen One’s soul. Facing witches, demons, and brutal foes, he discovers her return could ignite chaos and doom humanity.

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

The Unholy (2021)

Alice is a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question if these phenomena are the works of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister.

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

Warlock (1989)

In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into the future, the warlock winds up in the 1980s and plans to bring about the end of the world. Redferne follows the enchanter into the modern era and continues his mission, but runs into trouble in such unfamiliar surroundings. With the help of a young woman, can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?

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

The Cellar (2022)

When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.

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

The Witches (1990)

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.

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

The 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 & mystery

The Call of Cthulhu (2006)

A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.

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

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

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

Cinderella's Curse (2024)

Desperate Cinderella summons her fairy godmother from an ancient flesh-bound book, seeking revenge on her evil stepmother and stepsisters who abuse and torment her daily.

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

The Void (2016)

In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.

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

Color Out of Space (2020)

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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

The Woman in Black (1989)

A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.

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

Burnt Offerings (1976)

A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.

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

The Man Whom the Trees Loved (2026)

On vacation on a remote island, Sophie tries to salvage her marriage with Dave. But as he explores the forest surrounding the house, he becomes increasingly entranced by the trees. To Dave, they are beautiful, inspiring, and radiant. To Sophie, however, the trees begin to take on a darker, possibly evil presence, as she struggles to save her husband from being taken by the forest forever. Based on the novella by Algernon Blackwood.

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

Il Vecchio Terribile (2026)

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

German Horror Story - Teutonic Terror Tales (2025)

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

Prometheus (2012)

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

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

Dark Waters (1993)

After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.

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

Delfathoma (2023)

Loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep', this film follows Jude Slater, a man who has recently inherited the house of an important figure in the town of Freasdal. What horrors lay in wait beneath the foundations of the home have yet to be seen.

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

Witch Hunt (1994)

Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.

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

Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

When a virginal artist falls in love with a call girl, she turns out to be the chosen bride of the alien god Cthulhu. To save her, he must stop an ancient cult from summoning their god and destroying mankind.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Necronomicon (1993)

H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Hellraiser (1987)

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror