Movies like From the Dark (2014)
The best movies like From the Dark (2014) are Raven (2010), Rawhead Rex (1986) and Boys from County Hell (2021). If From the Dark hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLet the Right One In (2008)7.5/10 from 3,409 votes
- NewestThe Morrigan (2026)Released 2026
Raven (2010)
The re-awakening of a seductive female vampire and the struggle of a lone vampire hunter who must overcome his desire for her in order to destroy her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Rawhead Rex (1986)
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBoys from County Hell (2021)
A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisJonathan (1970)
A group of vampires terrorizes a small village on the German North Sea Coast. The young Jonathan joins a group of fellow students and locals, who plan an uprising against the vampires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Livid (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 thisThe Lair of the White Worm (1988)
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Thompsons (2012)
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBloodsuckers (2005)
A captain leads a team of commandos searching for vampires in the universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Forsaken (2001)
A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNear Dark (1987)
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVampire Island (2009)
Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Blood Glacier (2013)
At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfflicted (2014)
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRufus (2012)
Rufus is a shy and lonely boy determined to make a new start. Sure he has some quirks. So what if he likes the taste of blood? It's not like he's addicted. When a cunning vampire hunter slips into town searching for the fountain of youth, Rufus fears his darkest secret is about to be revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisByzantium (2013)
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet the Right One In (2008)
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCurse of Crom: The Legend of Halloween (2022)
High school teenagers accidentally unleash an ancient Irish entity on their hometown and must stop it before midnight on Halloween.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Hallow (2015)
Deep within the darkness of secluded forest land in rural Ireland dwells an ancient evil. Feared by the nearby superstitious villagers as cursed creatures who prey upon the lost, their secrets have been kept from civilization and remain on their hallowed ground. But when a conservationist from London moves in with his wife and infant child in order to survey the land for future construction, his actions unwittingly disturb the horde of demonic forces. Alone in a remote wilderness, he must now ensure his family's survival from their relentless attacks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrostbitten (2006)
After Annika, a medical doctor, gets work at the local hospital, she and her 17-year old daughter Saga move to a small town in northern Sweden. Annika is keen to work with her idol, geneticist Professor Gerhard Beckert. However Beckert's sinister past in the Waffen-SS soon catches up with him when a couple of pill-popping interns mistake an experimental vaccine for party drugs. Mayhem ensues as the town's teenagers succumb one by one to the mysterious virus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSawney: Flesh of Man (2012)
Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Island Zero (2018)
A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIsolation (2005)
On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Touch (2013)
Niamh is the lone survivor of a mysterious massacre in which the furniture and objects in her family’s isolated house took on a monstrous life of their own. The police ignore her wild stories, and the neighbours and social worker who take her into their care try to introduce her to a new life. But Niamh is unable to leave her violent past behind her, endangering everyone who crosses her path.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCorbin Nash (2018)
A rogue police detective in search of his parents' killer is murdered and reborn the ultimate killer.
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 thisOutcast (2010)
When Mary and her teenage son, Fergal, move to yet another new home, it soon becomes clear they live their lives on the run, hiding from someone or something, terrified of being found. Their hunter, Cathal, soon picks up the trail. Intent on tracking Mary and Fergal, he will go to any lengths to succeed in his quest, often using dark arts to aid him. Mary’s only defence is to use an ancient form of her own magic to protect her only son. When local residents begin to be brutally murdered by an unknown life force, the sense of fear escalates. Is Cathal the beast responsible for the killing? Or is it the beast that he is trying to destroy?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHouse of Darkness (2016)
When Kelly and Brian move to a farmhouse in search of a quiet life, they begin to hear strange voices and experience violent urges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Morrigan (2026)
Archaeologist Fiona travels to Ireland to uncover a long-dead tomb. A threat is released and she will have to fight to keep her teenage daughter from falling under the control of The Morrigan, a vengeful Pagan War Goddess.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like From the Dark?
The closest matches to From the Dark are Raven (2010), Rawhead Rex (1986) and Boys from County Hell (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after From the Dark?
People who watched From the Dark most often go on to Raven (2010), Rawhead Rex (1986) and Boys from County Hell (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like From the Dark?
Let the Right One In (2008), rated 7.5/10 by 3,409 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like From the Dark?
The Morrigan (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like From the Dark?
Yes: Raven (2010), Rawhead Rex (1986) and Boys from County Hell (2021).
How are movies similar to From the Dark chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside From the Dark, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.