Movies like Pocong Cantengan (2026)
The best movies like Pocong Cantengan (2026) are Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2022), Play Dead (2025) and The Queen of Black Magic (2019). If Pocong Cantengan hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Entity (1982)6.9/10 from 620 votes
- NewestThe Escape (2026)Released 2026
Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2022)
After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPlay 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Queen of Black Magic (2019)
Revisiting the orphanage where they grew up, three men and their families discover a horrific supernatural presence lingering in their former home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of 1000 Corpses (2003)
Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil (1978)
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNever 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImpetigore (2019)
A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Harvest (2023)
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightbreed (1990)
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmelia’s Children (2024)
When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward will soon learn that he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boogeyman (2023)
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Accursed (2021)
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWolves (2014)
The coming-of-age story of Cayden Richards. Forced to hit the road after the murder of his parents, Cayden wanders lost without purpose... Until he meets a certifiable lunatic named Wild Joe who sets him on a path to the ominous town of Lupine Ridge to hunt down the truths of his history. But in the end, who's really hunting whom?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMystics in Bali (1981)
An anthropologist named Cathy travels to Bali with her lover to conduct research on black magic. There, they encounter the queen of the Leák cult, a shapeshifting witch who feasts on blood and soon makes Cathy carry out her evil deeds.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe 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
SnoozefestMovies like this825 Forest Road (2025)
After a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark history of being haunted by a ghostly woman who drives residents to suicide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Entity (1982)
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYear 10 (2024)
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
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 thisFriday the 13th (1980)
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlood Tulip (2019)
A woman travels to Holland in search of her missing sister who may have been forced into prostitution in the infamous Red Light District of Amsterdam. Ever wondered what would happen if John Waters went to the Netherlands to make a giallo? Wonder no more!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Take Me to Hell (2025)
Lena and her brother, Benhur, moved from Jakarta to Malang for college and stayed in a cozy boarding house owned by Mrs. Astri and Mr. Wiryo. Every week, all tenants gathered for a communal dinner. However, the peace turned into terror when a tenant had a strange dream and claimed the house was haunted, even seeing a hanging pocong. At first, no one believed it—until Lena saw it herself. This was no ordinary boarding house. The price to stay wasn’t money, but lives.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Kisah Tanah Jawa: Pocong Gundul (2023)
HAO has retrocognitive ability, an ability to see past events. With his ability, Hao helps SARI, a vocational school student, who was kidnapped by ‘Pocong Gundul’ - a evil pocong figure with a bald head. Together with his best friend RIDA, Hao manages to save Sari, but Hao's actions ignites anger from the Pocong Gundul. Terror after terror threatens Hao's life. With his ability, he travels into Pocong Gundul's past and finds out that in his past, he was a black shaman named WALISDI. An evil man who performs a dangerous ancient ritual, a ritual that turns him into ‘Pocong Gundul’. If Hao does not do anything, Pocong Gundul will roam around and take more victims. Hao must do his best to stop Pocong Gundul's evil plan, even though his life is at stake.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Night of the Drones (TBA)
Buenos Aires is hit by a epidemic that turns people into drones. Elena, a young woman unhappy with her life, struggles to hide the fact that she's sick from those close to her: Tomás, her boyfriend, and Simón, a friend of his with whom she's having an affair.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Mencadin 2: Tamu Mayit (2026)
Siti’s family had to move into Farida’s house in the middle of the plantation after being evicted from their home because of a loan shark. However, a figure even darker and more evil than the loan shark came to take them away—to the afterlife.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Piranha (1978)
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBasket Case 2 (1990)
Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBasket Case 3 (1992)
Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Escape (2026)
Two kids discover a money-filled hole in the forest, but a note reveals the shocking truth about it. Prototype for a feature film concept.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Pocong Cantengan?
The closest matches to Pocong Cantengan are Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2022), Play Dead (2025) and The Queen of Black Magic (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Pocong Cantengan?
Start with Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2022), the closest match to Pocong Cantengan.
What is the highest-rated movie like Pocong Cantengan?
The Entity (1982), rated 6.9/10 by 620 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Pocong Cantengan?
The Escape (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Pocong Cantengan chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Pocong Cantengan, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.