Movies like Dark Country (2009)
The best movies like Dark Country (2009) are The Hitcher (2007), Beyond the Reach (2014) and No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008). If Dark Country hooked you with its crime and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Hills Have Eyes (2006)6.5/10 from 3,552 votes
- NewestThe Vanished (2020)Released 2020
The Hitcher (2007)
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to a hitchhiker. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the young couple with a knife, but Jim successfully throws him out of the car. This sets off a chain of events that will change all of their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeyond the Reach (2014)
A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisNo Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisShuttle (2008)
When two friends return from a girls weekend vacation in Mexico, they find themselves stranded at the airport. Trying to get home safely, they board an airport shuttle for the short trip. But once their feet cross the threshold of the shuttle, a night that had started like any other turns terrifying, and the ride home becomes a descent into darkness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisVacancy 2: The First Cut (2008)
Three young people check into the Meadow View Inn for a night's rest, fully unaware of the inn's sick-minded employees and their nefarious intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight Train (2009)
Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, that they decide to keep for themselves...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisDesperation (2006)
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (2009)
A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured inbred cannibals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBorderland (2007)
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisScenic Route (2013)
Stranded on an isolated desert road, two life-long friends fight for survival as their already strained relationship spirals into knife-wielding madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAutopsy (2008)
Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlaughter (2009)
A young woman looks to escape her abusive life by moving to her family's farm near Atlanta. Unfortunately, she learns her place of supposed comfort offers more terrifying forms of abuse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Shortcut (2009)
When Derek moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the warning, Derek and his friends set out to uncover the dark secret that's buried deep in the woods. But will they survive to tell it?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTuristas (2006)
A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGone (2006)
A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly suspect and sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisInside (2006)
Alex has a disturbing hobby of following strangers...until one night he gets caught. Instead of calling the police, the couple--fascinated by Alex's resemblance to their dead son--asks him to stay, and Alex finds himself trapped in a horrifying existence of desperation, despair, and insanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Summer's Blood (2009)
A demented handyman comes to the rescue of a young woman, then imprisons her in his basement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Horseman (2008)
A tender drama unfolds between a grieving father and a troubled teenage girl as they drive northbound along the quiet outback roads of Australia. What she doesn't know is that between stops, he is leaving behind a bloody trail of bodies in a revenge motivated killing spree.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerritories (2010)
Five friends return home from a wedding in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Canyon (2009)
A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood River (2009)
A psychological thriller following a successful young married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town only to discover it long abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious stranger who seems to know decidedly more than he is sharing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Deadline (2009)
A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThirst (2010)
After wrecking their car in the middle of the desert, two couples find themselves stranded with few supplies. When the heat intensifies and their precious water supply dwindles, the frantic friends begin betraying each other in the hopes of survival. Their civility rapidly deteriorates as they begin to experience overwhelming fear and desperation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Disappearance (2002)
A family driving through Nevada decides to take some snapshots at an out-of-the-way ghost town named Weaver, and horrible things start happening.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Something Wicked (2014)
A young couple embark upon their honeymoon against the chilling landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. But when tragedy strikes, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisP2 (2007)
A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Clinic (2010)
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack Cadillac (2003)
What starts as a night of celebration for three friends quickly becomes the ultimate test of survival when their car breaks down on a frozen and deserted mountain road. The mystery grows further when they are joined by a local deputy sheriff and are stalked down the mountain by the ominous, probing headlights of a black Cadillac. It's a terrifying race - man against machine ... and Mother Nature's most fearsome elements. Based on writer / director John Murlowski's own terrifying experience on a late-night road trip in January 1983.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Vanished (2020)
A family vacation takes a terrifying turn when parents Paul and Wendy discover their young daughter has vanished without a trace. Stopping at nothing to find her, the search for the truth leads to a shocking revelation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Dark Country?
The closest matches to Dark Country are The Hitcher (2007), Beyond the Reach (2014) and No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Dark Country?
People who watched Dark Country most often go on to The Hitcher (2007), Beyond the Reach (2014) and No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like Dark Country?
The Hills Have Eyes (2006), rated 6.5/10 by 3,552 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Dark Country?
The Vanished (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Dark Country?
Yes: The Hitcher (2007), Beyond the Reach (2014) and No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008).
How are movies similar to Dark Country chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Dark Country, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.