Movies like Dark Touch (2013)
The best movies like Dark Touch (2013) are Nails (2017), File 253 (2015) and The Cellar (2022). If Dark Touch hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGhostland (2018)7.4/10 from 2,787 votes
- NewestBodycam (2026)Released 2026
Nails (2017)
Paralyzed after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFile 253 (2015)
In 2013 a psychiatric clinic which served for more than 50 years caring for patients in Mexico City was demolished. A few months before its demolition, four young men came to investigate the clinic, determined to discover the truth about rumors of strange and paranormal events, recording everything with which they encounter. Today, the whereabouts of these four young men are unknown, remaining only fragments of their recordings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmulet (2020)
Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCommunity (2012)
The Draymen Estate has become an urban legend. Amongst the sinister stories of unsavoury locals and brutal violence, several people have apparently gone missing. Even the police won't go there. Enter two naive student filmmakers with a well-meaning plan to make a sympathetic documentary of life on the estate. The unlucky duo quickly discovers that problems of drugs and crime in this community go way beyond the norm. This is a community which is about to present the students with material of unimaginable horror - turning their final project int their darkest nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Terrified (2018)
Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLivid (2011)
Lucie, Ben and William search an old woman's home for a hidden treasure and they encounter a series of supernatural events that change them forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrom the Dark (2014)
A couple on a trip through the Irish countryside find themselves hunted by a creature who only attacks at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSpiderhole (2010)
They say squatting is dead - a term that takes on a sinister double meaning when four homeless art students decide to take up residence in an abandoned London House where a hidden terror lurks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
All You Need Is Death (2024)
A young couple who collect rare folk ballads discover the dark side of love when they surreptitiously record and translate an ancient, taboo folk song from the deep, forgotten past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Salvage (2009)
When a container washes ashore the residents of a sleepy cul-de-sac are plunged into violence, terror and paranoia. Ring fenced by the military a single mother must overcome all the odds to save her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou Are Not My Mother (2022)
In a North Dublin housing estate, teenage Char's mother mysteriously goes missing. When she returns without explanation, Char resolves to uncover the truth behind her disappearance and shed light on her family's dark secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMonster (2018)
Monster tells the harrowing tale of Richard, Mary and Andrew - a family of three. On the outside, Mary and Richard appear normal and their son, a deformed hulk of a 7 foot monster rarely seen. However, the true monster is the one who is deformed on the inside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Lake Bodom (2016)
Four friends are spending the night at Lake Bodom, where unsolved murders took place many years ago. The young men are determined to venture into the dense forest to solve the mystery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe 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: Fans watch both · both horror
We Are Still Here (2015)
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio (2020)
Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it is a bad joke until he discovers that this is not the case. These calls hide a dark secret…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisGonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhostland (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: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAmong the Living (2014)
Three teenagers skip school in order to explore an abandoned film studio lot where they catch sight of a woman being dragged by a masked man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBodycam (2026)
A call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhosts of Darkness (2017)
Two paranormal investigators are unexpectedly thrown together in the hope of solving a 100 year mystery. Locked for three nights in a house with a dark and unsettling past, the two investigators must put their differences to one side and work together. They soon discover the myths and stories are nothing compared to what actually resides within the eerie walls of Richwood Manor. Scepticism and showmanship are soon put to one side when the two investigators realise there is more at stake than just their professional reputation. For once they have stumbled onto the real thing, but this time it's their own lives at stake.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Tag-Along: Devil Fish (2018)
When a spirit medium is called to exorcise a demon from a possessed man, he is unknowingly captured in the act by two students looking to document the process. When the students accidentally release the devil fish demon into the world, it is up to them and the spirit medium to send it back to the hellish world from where it came.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Lake Mungo (2009)
After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Gates (2024)
A serial killer has been sentenced to death by electric chair in London in the 1890s, but in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he is in, and all of those in it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Inside (2007)
Months after a tragic accident, Sarah, a young pregnant woman, must spend Christmas Eve alone in her house before giving birth the next day. But in the middle of the night, a creepy visitor knocks at her door willing to do anything to get what they want, setting off a night of pure terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boogeyman (2010)
A man goes to see a psychologist to explain how an evil creature is responsible for the deaths of his three children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Rose: A Love Story (2020)
The story of a young couple living alone in the woods, who must contend with a life-altering illness that manifests itself in a violent and terrifying way. Rose’s disease is a vampiric, parasitic thirst for blood. As her hunger grows, all humanity seems to give way to a feral violence that harms both her and those around her. Their loving relationship strains under the burden of Rose’s illness, and it is only a matter of time until the secluded life that they have built is upended entirely.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Don't Open the Door (2024)
Far from civilization, in a frozen forest on an inhospitable mountainside, a group of researchers is attacked by an unidentified figure. The sole survivor, a young biologist, takes refuge in the isolated cabin of a mysterious man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Savage (2009)
An exploration of masculinity and violence. A story of obsession and revenge, as a man tries to come to terms with a brutal, random attack and its consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Dark Touch?
The closest matches to Dark Touch are Nails (2017), File 253 (2015) and The Cellar (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Dark Touch?
People who watched Dark Touch most often go on to Nails (2017), File 253 (2015) and The Cellar (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Dark Touch?
Ghostland (2018), rated 7.4/10 by 2,787 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Dark Touch?
Bodycam (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Dark Touch?
Yes: Nails (2017), The Cellar (2022) and Amulet (2020).
How are movies similar to Dark Touch chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Dark Touch, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.