Movies like Unfriended (2014)
The best movies like Unfriended (2014) are Infirmary (2026), Host (2020) and Cam (2018). If Unfriended hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSearching (2018)7.6/10 from 4,439 votes
- NewestInfirmary (2026)Released 2026
- Same seriesUnfriended: Dark Web (2018)Unfriended
Infirmary (2026)
A guard vanished on his first night at an old psych hospital in 2023. His bodycam footage shows unexplainable incidents that continue to baffle investigators.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Host (2020)
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realise they might not survive the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCam (2018)
A young camgirl discovers that she’s inexplicably been replaced on her site with an exact replica of herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisFollowed (2020)
Social media influencer, 'DropTheMike', seeks thrills and stardom in the most horrific places. When he’s offered the possibility of a lucrative sponsorship, he takes his online channel to one of the most haunted hotels in America. What begins as a fun challenge accompanied by friends descends into a personal hell, begging the timely question: how far would you go to pursue internet fame?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Den (2013)
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParanormal Activity (2009)
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPulse (2001)
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFriend Request (2016)
Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed...
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 thisMegan Is Missing (2011)
Fourteen-year–old Megan and her best friend Amy spend a lot of time on the internet, posting videos of themselves and chatting with guys online. One night Megan chats with a guy named Josh who convinces her to meet him for a date. The next day, Megan is missing—forever. Based on actual cases of child abduction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTruth or Dare (2012)
A group of friends are lured to an isolated cabin by a promise of heavy partying, only to find themselves in a nightmarish game of truth or dare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ring (2002)
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnfriended: Dark Web (2018)
When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.
Why it matches: Same series: Unfriended · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSearching (2018)
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDeadstream (2022)
A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally unleashes a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRatter (2015)
Emma is a young and beautiful graduate student just starting a new life in New York City. Like most people her age, she is always connected - her phone and laptop are constant companions, documenting her most intimate moments. What she doesn't realize is that she's sharing her life with an uninvited and dangerous guest. A hacker is following Emma’s every move. When the voyeuristic thrill of watching her digitally isn't enough, the situation escalates to a dangerous and terrifying level.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Follows (2015)
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSinister (2012)
True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParanormal Activity 3 (2011)
In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisNerve (2016)
Industrious high school senior Vee Delmonico has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStay Alive (2006)
After the brutal death of a friend, a group of friends play an underground video game based on a 17th-century noblewoman, only to discover that dying in the game results in their real-life death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ex (2021)
Several years ago, a teenager posted a compromising photo of his girlfriend in a group chat. Now an adult with a happy life and a fiancée, Katya, he is forced to remember his past when Katya starts receiving mysterious messages from the girl in the photo — and her life turns into a nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLake 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 thisDashcam (2022)
At the start of the pandemic, an indulgent and self-deluded livestreaming improv musician abandons L.A. for London, steals her ex-bandmate's car, and makes the fateful decision to give a ride to an elderly woman who is not what she seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLivescream (2018)
Every day, over 200 loving fans watch Scott Atkinson play horror games online. After a lifetime of failures and false starts, streaming games is the only thing he's good at...until it becomes a nightmare. Enter Livescream - a mysterious horror game sent to him by an anonymous fan. At first, he thinks the game is a low quality indie title. But when his followers start dying one by one, he soon realizes the game is far more sinister. Now, Scott will be forced through nine levels of video game hell, each level representing a different horror game niche, in order to walk away alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Shelby Oaks (2025)
A woman's obsessive search for her missing sister leads her into a terrifying mystery at the hands of an unknown evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCountdown (2019)
A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUntitled Horror Movie (2021)
Set on computer screens and found footage style content, the movie follows six actors who decide to shoot their own horror movie as their hit TV show is on the brink of cancellation. In their search for a plot, they unintentionally summon a spirit with an affinity for violence, who starts picking them off one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPulse (2006)
When the dead discover a means to contact the living through electronic devices, cellphones and computers become open gateways to monstrosities and destruction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Unfriended?
The closest matches to Unfriended are Infirmary (2026), Host (2020) and Cam (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Unfriended?
People who watched Unfriended most often go on to Infirmary (2026), Host (2020) and Cam (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Unfriended?
Searching (2018), rated 7.6/10 by 4,439 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Unfriended?
Infirmary (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Unfriended part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Unfriended, which includes Unfriended: Dark Web (2018).
Are there English movies like Unfriended?
Yes: Infirmary (2026), Host (2020) and Cam (2018).
How are movies similar to Unfriended chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Unfriended, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.