Movies like Metamorphosis (2019)
The best movies like Metamorphosis (2019) are The Closet (2020), The Mimic (2017) and Ghost Mansion (2021). If Metamorphosis 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 ratedTrain to Busan (2016)7.8/10 from 8,917 votes
- NewestDeath Whisperer (2023)Released 2023
- In KoreanThe Closet (2020)Also in Korean
The Closet (2020)
After moving into a new house, a young girl begins displaying strange and disturbing behavior until, one day, she disappears behind a closet. While the devastated father is left with no clue about his daughter's disappearance, an exorcist shows up to help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Mimic (2017)
The mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods, but soon begins to wonder if she is even human.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhost Mansion (2021)
A horror webtoon writer journeys to a shabby apartment building in search of ideas. The building's caretaker tells him about multiple strange events that happened throughout the building's history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 8th Night (2021)
With prayer beads in one hand and an ax in the other, a monk hunts down a millennia-old spirit that's possessing humans and unleashing hell on Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Piper (2015)
Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGuimoon: The Lightless Door (2021)
In 1990, at a secluded community center, the custodian murders all the guest lodgers and kills himself. Ever since, on every Old Year's Night, paranormal events begin to take place within the building. Eventually, the center is shut down and left abandoned for years. A renowned paranormal investigator who had lost his mother during an exorcism and three college students who heard about the rumor of the unexplained phenomena heads over to the building, resolved to uncover the buried secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hypnosis (2021)
Jin-ho lost his parents in an accident when he was a child, he receives hypnosis to treat his trauma related to the accident. Do-hyun, a college student gets interested in Jin-ho's hypnosis and he tries doing it too.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Warning: Do Not Play (2019)
A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisContorted (2022)
A family moves to a quiet and isolated place, but suffers from nightmares on their very first day in the new home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Train to Busan (2016)
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ghost (2004)
Min Ji-won is suffering from amnesia. Her memory slowly comes back, after she discovers that all her friends mysteriously drowned recently. She begins piecing together her past, revealing the event that caused her memory loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLoner (2008)
A student becomes a recluse in response to her best friend's suicide and locks herself in her room. She believes that someone is in the room with her. Her alarmed family hires a psychologist to intervene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Black House (2007)
Jun-oh, an insurance claims agent, faces off with a client who he suspects of committing murders with the intention of collecting insurance premiums.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManhole (2014)
A young girl is kidnapped by a serial killer. The serial killer uses manholes to kidnap and kill his victims. The young girl's older sister tries to save her before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorror Stories 2 (2013)
In an insurance company, Yoon, who is an outsider, has a power to see people’s past and read their minds. Mr. Park, Yoon’s boss, assumes that she has some kind of special power, decides to test her ability. At very late night when everyone has gone home, Mr. Park brings Yoon to a storage room where there are full of case reports. Among them, Mr. Park picks three doubtful cases. He asks Yoon to tell him what exactly happened. Yoon, who senses some dark aura wandering around him, tells the story of each case. Every time Yoon finishes each case, the dark aura gets darker and bigger and Yoon tries to warn Mr. Park about it. Would Mr. Park able to escape from the dark aura?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
House of the Disappeared (2017)
After being wrongly imprisoned for murdering her husband, a woman returns to the house where the incident occurred to solve the mystery of his death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKiller Toon (2013)
A web-comic artist finds that a series of murders are occurring that have a disturbing resemblance to the images in her work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wrath (2018)
In the household of Lee Gyeong-jin, a high-ranking official of Joseon Kingdom, three sons die from an unidentified horror. A woman pregnant with a child of the third son soon learns of the evil spirit that haunts the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Silenced (2015)
A sickly girl Ju-ran transfers to a new sanitorium boarding school to regain health. But she discovers that students are disappearing and notices abnormal changes happening to her body. She suspects the school for what's happening and tries to discover what secret is hidden.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVoices (2007)
Ga-in, a high school student, witnesses the deaths of her relatives who die from a curse. Once she finds out that she is the next target, she asks her boyfriend to help her break the spell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPossessed (2009)
After Hee-jin's younger sister So-jin, who is possessed by a spirit,disappears,the neighbors die one by one and a secret underlying their deaths is revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Death Whisperer (2023)
When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Chosen: Forbidden Cave (2015)
Jin-Myung is a psychiatrist and exorcist. With his assistant, Ji-Kwang, they attempt an exorcism on Geum-Joo. She suffers from a bizarre phenomenon. They then face a powerful existence within Geum-Joo. Extreme horror arises out of her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Uninvited (2003)
An engaged interior designer sees two small girls on the subway train that die there. He sees them again in his apartment. A woman he meets can also see them. He talks to her about his forgotten childhood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Evil Twin (2007)
In coma for a decade, the twin So Yeon wakes finally up. But she can't recall many things. Her other twin sister, Hyo Jin, died in the accident that led to So Yeon's coma. Now that So Yeon has gained her consciousness back, strange things start to happen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Priests (2015)
To save a girl in danger, a priest and deacon jump into a mysterious case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Possessed (2021)
A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. Inspired by actual events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDagon (2001)
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShades of Desire (2023)
After her twin sister Aubrey goes missing, Jennifer uncovers the scandalous, secret double-life that Aubrey leads - and that has put both of them in danger.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Metamorphosis?
The closest matches to Metamorphosis are The Closet (2020), The Mimic (2017) and Ghost Mansion (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Metamorphosis?
People who watched Metamorphosis most often go on to The Closet (2020), The Mimic (2017) and Ghost Mansion (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like Metamorphosis?
Train to Busan (2016), rated 7.8/10 by 8,917 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Metamorphosis?
Death Whisperer (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Metamorphosis?
Yes: The Closet (2020), The Mimic (2017) and Ghost Mansion (2021).
How are movies similar to Metamorphosis chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Metamorphosis, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.