Movies like Black Mountain Side (2016)
The best movies like Black Mountain Side (2016) are YellowBrickRoad (2010), The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013) and Nine Miles Down (2009). If Black Mountain Side hooked you with its thriller and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Thing (1982)8.1/10 from 8,433 votes
- NewestDrive Back (2024)Released 2024
YellowBrickRoad (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 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 thisNine Miles Down (2009)
In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. A security patrolman battles through the high winds to investigate why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth’s crust than ever before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarnifex (2022)
An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists who venture into the Outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires where they discover a terrifying new species.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Void (2016)
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLoop Track (2023)
A four-day journey turns into a fight for survival. This is a psychological thriller about Ian, who wants to get as far away from humanity as possible, into the New Zealand bush. Some other individuals get attached to him. And he has the feeling that they are being followed. Is that real though?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Winter (2006)
In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Thing (1982)
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisOpen Grave (2013)
A man awakes -- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBroadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)
In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisWind Chill (2007)
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ritual (2017)
A group of university friends reunite for a hiking trip in Sweden, but are stalked by a menacing presence when they're diverted through the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPod (2015)
A family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Retreat (2021)
Renee and Valerie, a couple at a cross roads in their relationship, leave the city to spend the week at a remote cabin with friends. But when they arrive, their friends are nowhere to be found. As they stumble through their relationship woes, they discover they are being hunted by a group of militant extremists who are determined to exterminate them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath Valley (2021)
Mercenaries with nothing to lose are hired to rescue a bioengineer imprisoned in a cold war bunker. Upon entering the ominous facility, they find themselves in a fight for their lives when they come under attack from an unknown and deadly creature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Oak Room (2020)
During a raging snowstorm, a drifter returns home to the blue-collar bar located in the remote Canadian town where he was born. When he offers to settle an old debt with a grizzled bartender by telling him a story, the night's events quickly spin into a dark tale of mistaken identities, double-crosses and shocking violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Endless (2017)
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Earth (2021)
As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two bruised and shoeless. When they run into Zach, a man living off the grid, they gratefully accept his help. Zach’s intentions aren’t exactly what they seem, however, and a path out of the forest and into safety quickly fades as the line between myth and science blurs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKilling Ground (2017)
A couple's camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHunter Hunter (2020)
A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Descent (2005)
After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWrecked (2010)
A man awakens in a car wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He can't remember who he is or how he got there, but a report over the radio fills in some of the blanks, as it describes a violent bank robbery and names a perpetrator who happens to be sitting dead in the back seat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAntarctic Journal (2005)
Arctic cold and paranoia take their toll as Korean explorers are beset by the same strange occurrences that preceded the disappearance of a British team in 1922.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDrive Back (2024)
A couple returning from their engagement party must escape from a seemingly endless forested backroad causing them to lose their grip on reality... and a killer hunting them from the surrounding woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Creep (2004)
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 thisWitches in the Woods (2019)
A group of students head off for a snowboarding adventure on an untouched piece of land. When their SUV mysteriously stalls in a brutal snowstorm they are not only faced with the reality of freezing to death but a fate even more horrifying. For they have become stranded in Stoughton Valley, home of some Witch Trials even more horrendous than Salem, and are being hunted by a supernatural creature determined to keep them there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ruins (2008)
Americans Amy, Stacy, Jeff and Eric look for fun during a sunny holiday in Mexico, but they get much more than that after visiting an archaeological dig in the jungle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCold Prey II (2008)
After surviving the events in the Jotunheimen mountains in which four of her friends were murdered, the badly injured Jannicke is brought to the local hospital. But when she wakes up, the building is dark and deserted... and she soon realizes that her nightmare isn’t over yet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Black Mountain Side?
The closest matches to Black Mountain Side are YellowBrickRoad (2010), The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013) and Nine Miles Down (2009). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Black Mountain Side?
People who watched Black Mountain Side most often go on to YellowBrickRoad (2010), The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013) and Nine Miles Down (2009).
What is the highest-rated movie like Black Mountain Side?
The Thing (1982), rated 8.1/10 by 8,433 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Black Mountain Side?
Drive Back (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Black Mountain Side?
Yes: YellowBrickRoad (2010), The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013) and Nine Miles Down (2009).
How are movies similar to Black Mountain Side chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Black Mountain Side, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.