Movies like Tailgate (2019)
The best movies like Tailgate (2019) are Vicious (2019), Open 24 Hours (2018) and Kristy (2014). If Tailgate hooked you with its thriller and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedMother's Day (2010)6.5/10 from 491 votes
- NewestEvie (2023)Released 2023
Vicious (2019)
A girls weekend in a remote cottage in the Ardennes. Relationships are put into focus - do the four girls know everything about each other? The filming of the 'best youth book' of 2012 written by Mel Wallis de Vries.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
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 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 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 thisDon't Hang Up (2016)
An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 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 thisIn Isolation (2022)
During a small get-together with her close friends for her birthday, Jane finds a seriously injured stranger on her doorstep begging for help. She decides to help him and in doing so, lure the two killers after him to her country home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Moloch (2022)
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat Josiah Saw (2021)
A family with buried secrets reunite at a farmhouse after two decades to pay for their past sins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSilent Fear (2015)
Sabine is looking for the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend twenty years ago. An encounter with the handsome Olaf, a man she remembers from her teenage years, and the announcement of a high school reunion turn her life upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
He'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 thisWhat Keeps You Alive (2018)
Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a married couple attempting to celebrate their first anniversary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Remember You (2017)
After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMother's Day (2010)
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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
Hidden (2009)
Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisReckless (2014)
This stylish, sexually charged thriller revolves around two men who kidnap a woman and chain her to a bed as they await the ransom money. As the clock ticks, the woman discovers that she may have a relationship with one of the kidnappers that she never expected...and that the two men may have a relationship with each other that no one could have expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Psycho Storm Chaser (2021)
When a massive hurricane threatens the Brody Peninsula, Abby Fields, a full-time nurse to a housebound coma patient, is forced to stay behind to care for her. This puts her directly in the hurricane's path, but even worse - it puts her directly in the path of Dr. Carl Highstrom, a storm chasing serial killer who uses storms to cover up his heinous crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Evie (2023)
A young girl discovers a bewitched necklace on the beach, unaware of the malevolent force linked to it. As she falls under its dark influence, she unwittingly releases a lethal water demon intent on ensnaring her and her loved ones.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Preservation (2014)
Three family members head deep into the woods for a hunting trip that doubles as a distraction from their troubles at home. When all of their gear is stolen, they turn on each other, but soon realize there are much more treacherous forces at work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMegalomaniac (2023)
Felix and Martha, the two offspring of legendary serial murderer The Skinner of Mons, grapple with the grotesque legacy bequeathed to them. While Martha works a menial janitorial job, Felix continues his father's reign of terror. But following a brutal attack at work, Martha quickly descends into madness, finding she must come to terms with the infamous blood that flows through her veins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Columnist (2019)
An opinion columnist and author, subjected to constant misogynistic abuse on social media, snaps and goes on a killing spree against her online abusers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlackwood (2014)
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCheat (2023)
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrank and Penelope (2022)
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Tailgate?
The closest matches to Tailgate are Vicious (2019), Open 24 Hours (2018) and Kristy (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Tailgate?
People who watched Tailgate most often go on to Vicious (2019), Open 24 Hours (2018) and Kristy (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Tailgate?
Mother's Day (2010), rated 6.5/10 by 491 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Tailgate?
Evie (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Tailgate chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Tailgate, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.