Movies like What Keeps You Alive (2018)
The best movies like What Keeps You Alive (2018) are GirlHouse (2014), The Rental (2020) and Open 24 Hours (2018). If What Keeps You Alive 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 ratedKristy (2014)6.1/10 from 469 votes
- NewestNight of the Reaper (2025)Released 2025
GirlHouse (2014)
In an attempt to make some extra cash while away at College, Kylie moves into a house that streams content to an X-rated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the house's location, she finds herself in a terrifying fight for her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rental (2020)
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisOpen 24 Hours (2018)
After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. The isolation triggers her anxiety and hallucinations, with devastatingly gory results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTone-Deaf (2019)
A woman leaves for a quiet weekend in the country after losing her job and imploding her latest dysfunctional relationship. She rents a country house from an old-fashioned widower who’s struggling to hide his psychopathic tendencies. Soon, two generations collide with terrifying results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDownrange (2018)
Stranded at the side of the road after a tire blowout, a group of friends become targets for an enigmatic sniper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Russian Bride (2019)
A Russian woman travels to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire offering them a better life, but soon begins to suspect her new husband might have a far more sinister plan for their arrangement.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWelcome Home (2018)
A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHeld (2020)
A couple's ailing marriage is put to the test when they are held hostage in an isolated vacation rental by an unseen Voice that commands their every move and threatens harm if they don’t obey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisEvil Nanny (2016)
A couple hires a live-in nanny to watch the offspring while they work. At first, everything goes perfectly, but when an unsafe incident means the parents no longer want the nanny around, they find out this nanny is savvy at not being evicted from her live-in situation. So savvy, in fact, that she can make these parents' lives a true nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cleaning Lady (2018)
In a bid to distract herself from an affair, a narcissistic woman befriends a cleaning lady with burn scars, but she soon discovers that the scars may be more than skin deep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn Fear (2013)
Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a young couple gets trapped in a country maze on their way to a remote hotel, where an unidentifiable sinister force torments them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBone Lake (2025)
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.
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 thisKristy (2014)
When a college girl who is alone on campus over the Thanksgiving break is targeted by a group of outcasts, she must conquer her deepest fears to outwit them and fight back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHe's Out There (2018)
On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPet (2016)
A man bumps into an old crush and becomes obsessed. After several failed attempts at winning her over, he kidnaps her and holds her captive underneath the animal shelter where he works.
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 thisLake Bodom (2016)
Four friends are spending the night at Lake Bodom, where unsolved murders took place many years ago. The young men are determined to venture into the dense forest to solve the mystery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSon (2021)
When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKilling Ground (2017)
A couple's camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll Eyes (2022)
A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Harvesting (2018)
To escape their marital problems, a young family travels from the city to spend the summer in Amish Country where a malevolent presence grips them. They soon discover that they were brought there for a reason and they must break free before the demonic hold consumes them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
It 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisHavenhurst (2016)
A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Call (2020)
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beta Test (2021)
An engaged Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity, and digital data.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKnuckleball (2018)
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Feast (2021)
A wealthy family hosts a sumptuous dinner, only for a mysterious young server to chillingly unravel their lives with terrifying consequences they could never see coming.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like What Keeps You Alive?
The closest matches to What Keeps You Alive are GirlHouse (2014), The Rental (2020) and Open 24 Hours (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after What Keeps You Alive?
People who watched What Keeps You Alive most often go on to GirlHouse (2014), The Rental (2020) and Open 24 Hours (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like What Keeps You Alive?
Kristy (2014), rated 6.1/10 by 469 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like What Keeps You Alive?
Night of the Reaper (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like What Keeps You Alive?
Yes: GirlHouse (2014), The Rental (2020) and Open 24 Hours (2018).
How are movies similar to What Keeps You Alive chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside What Keeps You Alive, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.