Movies like Basoa

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 thriller & horror

The Unhealer (2021)

A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to settle the score.

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

Southbound (2015)

On a desolate stretch of desert highway, weary travelers — two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation — are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales of terror and remorse on the open road.

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

Dark 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 & fantasy

Older Gods (2023)

After the disappearance of his troubled friend, American Chris Rivers travels to the remote Welsh countryside to investigate what happened – leading him to a dark apocalyptic cult.

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

Race 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 & thriller

Containment (2015)

Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?

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

God Is a Bullet (2023)

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.

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

Nightbreed (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 & fantasy

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 & thriller

Dark Light (2019)

A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.

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

The 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 thriller & horror

The Hideout (2007)

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.

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

The Signal (2007)

A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.

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

Night Watch (1973)

A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.

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

Slash/Back (2022)

In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

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

The Children (2008)

A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.

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

Cheat (2023)

On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.

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

Z (2019)

A family find themselves terrorized by their eight-year-old son's imaginary friend.

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

Hunted (2021)

A woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.

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

Soul Reaper (2024)

A teenager with the ability to enter other people's dreams. When he witnesses a dark spirit taking people's lives in their dreams, he quickly realizes that it's related to the mysterious deaths that are happening in the real world.

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

Do You See What I See (2024)

After Mawar falls for her very first boyfriend, her friends' joy turns into suspicion as they realize he may not be who he seems.

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

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 & thriller

Sosok Ketiga: Lintrik (2025)

After six months of marriage, Andin begins to notice many oddities in her marriage. From the beginning, Uncle Bagyo suspected the marriage was rushed, and together with Amara—Andin's younger sister who also inherited the mystical arts—he often noticed disturbing, odd signs. Their suspicions were proven correct when it was revealed that Ario, Andin's husband, had been having a special relationship with Naura, a wealthy woman in their town who was trying to steal Ario completely from Andin using the Lintrik love spell, a dangerous mystical power that dragged Andin and her family into endless supernatural terror. What will happen to Andin and Ario's marriage going forward?

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

Makabro Coliseo (2026)

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

Retrato (2025)

A young man leaves home to throw away the garbage, among the containers he notices a framed portrait that catches his attention. Something about it tells him to take it home.

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

Danur: The Last Chapter (2026)

After years of separation from her ghost friends, Risa goes on with her life, closing the door to any communication with any ghosts. However, things change when her sister, Riri, is proposed. In an old theater and begins acting strangely in the time leading to her wedding. Not only does Riri change, but Risa also begins experiencing a series of strange events, as if she’s experiencing a painful death repeatedly. Risa suspects that this was happening because her ghost friends, Peter and his friends, were trying to convey something.

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

Utusan Iblis: Dia Yang Berada di Antara Kita (2025)

Telling the story of Olivia, a psychiatrist specializing in mental health, who tries to help Rendy, a police officer, dealing with a brutal massacre case carried out by Cantika against her child and husband. After going through several therapy sessions, Olivia's own psychological condition deteriorates. A terrifying entity has long possessed Cantika’s body and was the reason she slaughtered her entire family, and now it is causing Olivia’s past to resurface.

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

The Severed Sun (2025)

Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

BEYOND SIGHT (2025)

In Beyond Sight, Dália is a teenager desperate to belong, even if it means adopting the cruel prejudices of her toxic group of friends. But when an unexpected accident leaves her blind, Dália finds herself on the other side of the judgment she once inflicted. Struggling to adapt, she crosses paths with a mysterious doctor who offers her a chance to regain her sight—through an experimental substance that promises not just vision, but a transformation into her best self: Zoe.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror