Movies like The Curse of Downers Grove (2015)
The best movies like The Curse of Downers Grove (2015) are All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), Seconds Apart (2011) and The Shortcut (2009). If The Curse of Downers Grove hooked you with its thriller and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHereditary (2018)7.3/10 from 9,102 votes
- NewestNight of the Reaper (2025)Released 2025
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their destination. Partying ensues, and Mandy's close pal, Emmet, keeps a watchful eye on the young males making a play for Mandy. Then two of the students are murdered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeconds Apart (2011)
Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telekinesis. Things start to spiral out of control as their classmates die in twisted and bizarre ways. Jealousy begins to divide them and soon they can no longer trust each other, leading up to a horrific battle against themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 mystery & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Rachels (2017)
After a popular teen falls to her death, her best friend basks in the glow of the social media attention, while their rival seeks to avenge the past and uncover the truth behind the mysterious death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Don't Let Go (2019)
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKnives and Skin (2019)
In the wake of a high school student's mysterious disappearance, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town's teenage girls, gathering in force until it can no longer be contained.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfter (2012)
When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Thinning (2016)
In a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test, two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMine Games (2012)
A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Neighbor (2016)
In the town of Cutter, most people keep to themselves. But when John comes home to find his girlfriend missing, he sneaks into his neighbor's house, finding his girlfriend and several other kidnapped people tied up in the basement. When the neighbor come home, John is forced to get out of the house alive and lead the group to safety.
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 thisSecret Santa (2018)
An unknown assailant spikes a family's Christmas punch with a military-grade drug, leaving them fighting to survive the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 thisMidnighters (2018)
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHereditary (2018)
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRadius (2017)
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTamara (2005)
Tamara, an unattractive girl who is picked on by her peers, returns after her death as a sexy seductress to enact revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHead Count (2019)
Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone - or something - is among them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they're forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is hell-bent on revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Are What We Are (2013)
The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family matriarch forces daughters Iris and Rose to assume special responsibilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Stains the Sands Red (2016)
In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, a troubled woman from Las Vegas with a dark past finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone and ravenous zombie on her tail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisTime Cut (2024)
A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister. Can she change the past without destroying the future?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight of the Reaper (2025)
College student Deena visits home and is roped into babysitting. The local sheriff is mailed a piece of evidence and is led on a scavenger hunt to reveal the killer of another babysitter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeeds (2024)
A Mohawk woman is hired as a social media influencer but gets caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game, as she's forced to go to war to preserve her people's heritage from corporate interests.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Resolution (2013)
A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Echo (2008)
An ex-prisoner moves to an old apartment, where one gets to see in the middle of a domestic problem between a police officer, his wife and his daughter. When he tries to intervene, he will be caught in a mysterious curse.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUrban Legend (1998)
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Return (2006)
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuburbicon (2017)
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Curse of Downers Grove?
The closest matches to The Curse of Downers Grove are All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), Seconds Apart (2011) and The Shortcut (2009). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Curse of Downers Grove?
People who watched The Curse of Downers Grove most often go on to All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), Seconds Apart (2011) and The Shortcut (2009).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Curse of Downers Grove?
Hereditary (2018), rated 7.3/10 by 9,102 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Curse of Downers Grove?
Night of the Reaper (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Curse of Downers Grove?
Yes: All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006), Seconds Apart (2011) and The Shortcut (2009).
How are movies similar to The Curse of Downers Grove chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Curse of Downers Grove, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.