Movies like Written in the Fog (1982)
The best movies like Written in the Fog (1982) are Play Dead (2022), The Wailing (2024) and The Inhabitant (2022). If Written in the Fog hooked you with its horror, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedVirus: 32 (2022)6.8/10 from 314 votes
- NewestTorment (2025)Released 2025
- In SpanishThe Wailing (2024)Also in Spanish
Play Dead (2022)
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wailing (2024)
Andrea, in search of her biological family, feels stalked by an invisible threat. Other women before them have suffered the same fate. Twenty years earlier, on the other side of the world, Camille, fascinated by Marie, tries to warn her of a threat hanging over her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Inhabitant (2022)
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ghost Within (2023)
A young woman revisits her family home desperate to discover her sister Evie's murderer 20 years before. After a series of terrifying encounters with Evie's ghost at 09:09pm, Margot knows she must fight to learn the truth once and for all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhisper (2007)
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVirus: 32 (2022)
A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVicious (2025)
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Kindred (2021)
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloodline Killer (2024)
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNever Let Go (2024)
As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Are What We Are (2010)
After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bad Nun 3 (2024)
When a traumatized young woman in a grief counselling group suddenly dies, a trio of friends from the group decide to find out what really happened.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTorment (2025)
An exhausted security guard is transferred to a morgue and, on their first night, discovers that the shadows and silences hide a torment from which there may be no return.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJugaremos en el bosque (2024)
After the death of his son, Javier hopes that restoring his family's abandoned ranch will allow him and his wife Mariana, who attempted suicide, a new beginning, but his grandmother refuses.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDocumented Exorcism (2012)
While a sixteen year old girl is possessed by an evil spirit, her mother tries to find help, but everything goes wrong with horrible consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe House of Snails (2021)
A writer secludes himself in the mountains and falls in lust with local Berta. After realizing the oddities of the rural community the author starts to question the lines between reality and fiction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDaddy's Little Girl (2014)
After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSlapface (2022)
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Written in the Fog?
The closest matches to Written in the Fog are Play Dead (2022), The Wailing (2024) and The Inhabitant (2022). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Written in the Fog?
Start with Play Dead (2022), the closest match to Written in the Fog.
What is the highest-rated movie like Written in the Fog?
Virus: 32 (2022), rated 6.8/10 by 314 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Written in the Fog?
Torment (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Written in the Fog?
Yes: The Wailing (2024), Virus: 32 (2022) and We Are What We Are (2010).
How are movies similar to Written in the Fog chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Written in the Fog, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.