Movies like Willow Creek (2013)
The best movies like Willow Creek (2013) are Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012), Blair Witch (2016) and The Last Broadcast (1998). If Willow Creek hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedTroll Hunter (2010)6.7/10 from 1,841 votes
- NewestFrogman (2024)Released 2024
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012)
Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlair Witch (2016)
Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Broadcast (1998)
In December 1995, a four-man team from the public-access program, "Fact or Fiction", braved the New Jersey's desolate Pine Barrens determined to deliver a live broadcast of the legendary Jersey Devil. Only one came out alive. It took the jury ninety minutes to sentence the lone survivor to life in prison. One year later, a filmmaker decides to mount his own investigation...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisEvidence (2011)
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Blair Witch Project (1999)
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExists (2014)
A group of friends venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend and find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tunnel (2011)
An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLeaving D.C. (2013)
After 20 years of living in Washington, D.C., Mark Klein seeks much-needed solace by moving to the remote wilds of West Virginia. To ease his loneliness, he sends regular video updates to members of his OCD-support group back in the city. But Mark gradually realizes that despite his new, isolated setting, he may not be alone. From the endless woods surrounding his home, something else is watching.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCreep (2014)
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Houses October Built (2014)
Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCreature from Black Lake (1976)
When the word gets out of a mysterious Bigfoot-type creature, two researchers come to a small town to study and hopefully discover the true nature of the beast. With some help from the locals, the two men to learn that the creature may be a very angry and murderous missing link.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
The Conspiracy (2012)
A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTroll Hunter (2010)
A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDigging Up the Marrow (2015)
A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrogman (2024)
An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious sighting of the Frogman, determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the cryptid legend exists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Sacrament (2014)
Two journalists set out to document their friend's journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the remote world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia composed of nearly two hundred members and overseen by a mysterious leader known only as "Father." It quickly becomes evident to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems. Eden Parish harbors a twisted secret. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a fight for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorror in the High Desert (2021)
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrimal Rage (2018)
A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisButterfly Kisses (2018)
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013)
In February of 1959, nine Russian hikers ventured into a remote area of the Ural Mountains. Two weeks later, all of them were found dead. What happened is a mystery that has baffled investigators and researchers for decades. It has become known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident. When five ambitious American college students are issued a grant to return to the site of the original events, they gear up with the belief that they can uncover and document the truth of what happened to the supposedly experienced hikers. But what they find is more shocking than anything they could have imagined. Retracing the steps of the Russians' ill-fated journey, the students are plagued by strange and increasingly terrifying phenomena that suggest that in spite of the desolate surroundings, they are not alone. The forces at work in the Dyatlov Pass Incident have been waiting for them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan Vs. (2015)
As host of his own hit TV series, 'MAN VS', Doug Woods is forced to fend for himself for five days in remote locations with no crew, food, or water, only the cameras he carries on his back to film his experiences. Doug's in the remote woods for a routine episode, until he's awoken by an earth-shaking crash. Things get weirder as it becomes clear Doug isn't alone. Someone or something is watching him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hunted (2014)
Chasing their dream of landing their own hunting show, Jake and Stevie head to the dense, secluded mountains of West Virginia. Equipped with only their bow and camera, they have just three days to kill a monster buck big enough to grab the attention of the network...and they've found him. But the sun has set, and they realize they're not alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch (2024)
As a wildfire bears down on the opposite side of the state, Oscar Mendoza, armed with a secret, takes advantage of the distraction and journeys to Northeastern Nevada in search of missing outdoorsman Gary Hinge's last known whereabouts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023)
In 2018 a string of tragedies unfold in the high desert of North Eastern Nevada. A woman was found dead and another would vanish along the same stretch of remote highway. Could these events be linked to the infamous 2017 disappearance of outdoorsman Gary Hinge?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisHell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023)
A group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is discovered on their footage is even more disturbing than anything found on the Hell House tapes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYellowBrickRoad (2010)
In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHell House LLC III: Lake of Fire (2019)
Set one year after the events of Hell House LLC II, the hotel is on the verge of being torn down when it is purchased by billionaire Russell Wynn as the new home for his popular interactive show, Insomnia. He invites journalist Venessa Sheppard and her crew to record everything happening inside the hotel leading up to the performance - but they soon encounter a more nefarious plot, one that threatens to unleash a veritable hell on earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisV/H/S/99 (2022)
A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Willow Creek?
The closest matches to Willow Creek are Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012), Blair Witch (2016) and The Last Broadcast (1998). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Willow Creek?
People who watched Willow Creek most often go on to Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012), Blair Witch (2016) and The Last Broadcast (1998).
What is the highest-rated movie like Willow Creek?
Troll Hunter (2010), rated 6.7/10 by 1,841 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Willow Creek?
Frogman (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Willow Creek?
Yes: Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes (2012), Blair Witch (2016) and The Last Broadcast (1998).
How are movies similar to Willow Creek chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Willow Creek, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.