Movies like Chaos (2005)
The best movies like Chaos (2005) are American Gothic (2017), Vile (2011) and Day of the Woman (1978). If Chaos hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMartyrs (2008)7.3/10 from 3,202 votes
- NewestStrange Darling (2024)Released 2024
American Gothic (2017)
A quiet couple. An isolated farmhouse. A pair of desperate fugitives. Everything breaks under pressure...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Vile (2011)
A group of people awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls. The chemicals that the brain produces when in pain are collected by the devices, and when it collects a predetermined amount, the doors will be opened. In order to escape, they must hurt themselves and each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDay of the Woman (1978)
A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrotesque (2009)
An unnamed doctor has always had everything he's ever wanted, but that has only made him develop more extreme and depraved needs. He kidnaps a young couple in the prime of their life together and forces them into a game of torment that slowly extinguishes their hopes for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Devil's Rejects (2005)
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStorm Warning (2007)
A couple becomes lost in a massive storm and seek refuge at a nearby farmhouse, only to be captured by deranged killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrontier(s) (2007)
A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDread (2009)
Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHostel: Part III (2011)
Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMum & Dad (2008)
Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood Hunt (2017)
Everything seems uneventful for Dean and Claire, as they head out into beautiful rural Australia for a weekend away. Their biggest problem is what to do about Claire being accepted into an interstate University. The couple come across Knuck and things start to spiral out of control. Heath and Jarred only stoke the fire and both Claire and Dean's greatest fears are made reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI'll Never Die Alone (2008)
A violent thriller set in the outback of remote La Plata region, I'LL NEVER DIE ALONE (aka NO MORIRE SOLA) is a tough and pounding story of revenge for rape, mercilessly carried out by a group of women intent on pursuing their attackers to the bitter end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHostel (2006)
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHostel: Part II (2007)
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDescent (2007)
Following a brutal assault, a college co-ed's life spirals until she encounters her assailant while working as a dancer. The predator has become the prey, and the prey has set her sights on revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisJulia (2015)
After suffering a brutal trauma, Julia uses an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKidnapped (2010)
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. But the family fights back - brutally.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFunny Games (2008)
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeautiful Sisters: Flesh Slaves (1986)
A man on the run from the police takes two sisters hostage in their dental office apartment. He makes himself at home sexually abusing them and getting food service. But the sisters are resilient and quietly develop a plan for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Martyrs (2008)
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWolf Creek (2005)
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInside (2007)
Months after a tragic accident, Sarah, a young pregnant woman, must spend Christmas Eve alone in her house before giving birth the next day. But in the middle of the night, a creepy visitor knocks at her door willing to do anything to get what they want, setting off a night of pure terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEden Lake (2008)
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine (2015)
Jennifer Hills is still tormented by the brutal sexual assault she endured years ago. She’s changed identities and cities, reluctantly joining a support group where she begins to piece together a new life. But when her new friend’s murderer goes free and the tales of serial rapists haunt her, Jennifer will hunt down the men responsible and do what the system won’t – make them pay for their crimes in the most horrific ways imaginable. Only this time, no jury may be able to save her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStrange Darling (2024)
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloodline (2019)
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMother's Day (2010)
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarbarian (2022)
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrindhouse (2007)
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Chaos?
The closest matches to Chaos are American Gothic (2017), Vile (2011) and Day of the Woman (1978). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Chaos?
People who watched Chaos most often go on to American Gothic (2017), Vile (2011) and Day of the Woman (1978).
What is the highest-rated movie like Chaos?
Martyrs (2008), rated 7.3/10 by 3,202 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Chaos?
Strange Darling (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Chaos?
Yes: American Gothic (2017), Vile (2011) and Day of the Woman (1978).
How are movies similar to Chaos chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Chaos, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.