Movies like Under the Shadow (2016)
The best movies like Under the Shadow (2016) are His House (2020), Hereditary (2018) and The Babadook (2014). If Under the Shadow hooked you with its drama and horror, 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 9,086 votes
- NewestIn Flames (2023)Released 2023
His House (2020)
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Babadook (2014)
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOculus (2014)
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHatching (2022)
12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Golem (2018)
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hole in the Ground (2019)
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Paternal House (2014)
A young woman is murdered by her own father, with the help of her younger brother. She is secretly buried in the cellar, a space where the women of the family weave carpets and perform other domestic chores. Her loss, or perhaps her presence, continues to haunt the family as it reverberates through the following generations. Ayyari’s film is staged exclusively in this house and was banned several times in Iran.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Goodnight Mommy (2015)
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInsidious (2011)
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Dark Song (2016)
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemon (2015)
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Orphanage (2007)
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Advent Calendar (2021)
Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad... Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again… even if it causes death around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Goat and Her Three Kids (2022)
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Night (2021)
An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Witch (2016)
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Innocents (2021)
Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBorder (2018)
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Flames (2023)
After the death of the family patriarch, a mother and daughter’s precarious existence is ripped apart. They must find strength in each other if they are to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to engulf them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Grandmother (2022)
Susana leaves her life in Paris, where she works as a model, and returns to Madrid to take care of her grandmother Pilar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLa Llorona (2019)
Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thismother! (2017)
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet Me In (2010)
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Offering (2022)
In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that directly beneath them in the family morgue, an ancient evil with sinister plans for the unborn child lurks inside a mysterious corpse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe House at the End of Time (2013)
The story of Dulce, a mother who has encounters with apparitions inside her old house. She must decipher a mystery that could trigger a prophecy: the death of her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHuesera: The Bone Woman (2023)
Valeria's joy at becoming a first-time mother is quickly taken away when she's cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in, she's forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Under the Shadow?
The closest matches to Under the Shadow are His House (2020), Hereditary (2018) and The Babadook (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Under the Shadow?
People who watched Under the Shadow most often go on to His House (2020), Hereditary (2018) and The Babadook (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Under the Shadow?
Hereditary (2018), rated 7.3/10 by 9,086 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Under the Shadow?
In Flames (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Under the Shadow chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Under the Shadow, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.