Movies like The Black String (2018)
The best movies like The Black String (2018) are The Caller (2011), Observance (2016) and The Dead Center (2019). If The Black String 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 ratedThe Others (2001)7.6/10 from 7,553 votes
- NewestThe Harbinger (2023)Released 2023
The Caller (2011)
Troubled divorcee Mary Kee is tormented by a series of sinister phone calls from a mysterious woman. When the stranger reveals she's calling from the past, Mary tries to break off contact. But the caller doesn't like being ignored, and looks for revenge in a unique and terrifying way...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisObservance (2016)
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dead Center (2019)
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBroadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)
In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Canal (2014)
A man who suspects his wife is cheating on him begins having nightmarish visions of an evil presence that he believes inhabits his house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Diabolical (2015)
When a single mother and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence in their quiet suburban home, she turns to her scientist boyfriend to take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightened to face.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Pact II (2014)
The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & 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 thisThe Pact (2012)
After their mother passes away, sisters Nicole and Annie reluctantly return to their childhood home to pay their last respects. While staying overnight in the house, the sisters sense a mysterious presence in their midst: noises startling them in the night, objects moving about, a fallen picture of an unknown woman posed next to their mother. Annie begins experiencing a series of intense and disturbing dreams - visions that lead her to uncover something terrible about her mother's past that is finally revealing itself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBacktrack (2015)
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Harvest (2015)
After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his mother’s strong objections. Her persistence leads to a friendship, but during secret visits, she uncovers dark secrets in the boy's home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSam Was Here (2016)
California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisAbsentia (2011)
Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisResolution (2013)
A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnseen (2023)
Sam receives a call from Emily, a near blind woman who is running from her murderous ex in the woods. Can she survive using Sam as her eyes via video call?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPod (2015)
A family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisVisions (2015)
After moving to a vineyard with her family, a pregnant woman experiences horrifying visions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy House (2023)
Carla lives life locked inside her house with her kind but tyrannical father. When their isolation is interrupted by a mysterious stranger, Carla questions the reasons for her family's withdrawal from the outside world and discovers dark secrets that redefine their existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Portrait (2023)
After her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it's possessed or if she's losing her mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Hereditary (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 & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDig Two Graves (2014)
A girl's obsession with her brother's disappearance leads her on a nightmarish journey through a small town's Gothic landscape where she is faced with a deadly proposition. How far will she go to save the people she loves?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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 & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Others (2001)
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStatic (2012)
A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Abandoned (2015)
A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Harbinger (2023)
Monique leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who’s suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Dark Signal (2016)
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrue Fiction (2019)
Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to participate in a controlled psychological experiment in fear that will serve as the basis for Caleb's next novel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Black String?
The closest matches to The Black String are The Caller (2011), Observance (2016) and The Dead Center (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Black String?
People who watched The Black String most often go on to The Caller (2011), Observance (2016) and The Dead Center (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Black String?
The Others (2001), rated 7.6/10 by 7,553 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Black String?
The Harbinger (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Black String?
Yes: The Caller (2011), Observance (2016) and The Dead Center (2019).
How are movies similar to The Black String chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Black String, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.