Movies like Intruders (2011)
The best movies like Intruders (2011) are Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Before I Wake (2016) and The Melancholy Fantastic (2011). If Intruders hooked you with its thriller and horror, 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 7,560 votes
- NewestDark Harvest (2023)Released 2023
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBefore I Wake (2016)
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Melancholy Fantastic (2011)
Suffering from her mother's recent suicide, a delusional young girl falls for an alluring Goth, against the objections of a life-size talking muslin doll. The Melancholy Fantastic is a psychological thriller set during the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Look Away (2018)
A timid and socially alienated 17-year-old high school student's life is turned upside down when she switches places with her sinister mirror image.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDarkness Falls (2003)
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMama (2013)
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Floors (2008)
A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThey (2002)
A psychology student who experienced night terrors as a child must face the chilling realization that her nightmares were not all in her head.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAbattoir (2016)
A reporter unearths an urban legend about a home being constructed from rooms where horrific tragedies have occurred.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisInsidious (2011)
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLady in White (1988)
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Devil's Backbone (2001)
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Boy (2016)
A young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Possession (2012)
A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Conjuring (2013)
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHaunter (2013)
A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Orphanage (2007)
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hole (2009)
After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around every corner and nightmares coming to life, they are forced to come face to face with their darkest fears to put an end to the mystery of THE HOLE.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisOculus (2014)
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClown (2014)
A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWake Wood (2011)
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Harvest (2023)
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Abandoned (2006)
Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Woman in Black (2012)
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBroil (2020)
A listless grand-daughter, Chance Sinclair, is sentenced to live with her draconian grand-father, August after a violent incident at school and begins to question the source of her families immense wealth and power. When Chance's scheming Mom, June hires a troubled chef Sydney to poison August, the family's monstrous secrets are revealed over the course of one bloody night. Every soul is up for grabs as The Sinclair Family Games Night gets underway and Chance learns that being a part of this family is a blood-in, blood-out proposition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking for new tricks, she finds a little book called "The Evil Thing"
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSome Kind of Hate (2015)
When troubled teen Lincoln is subjected to severe bullying, he accidentally conjures the vengeful ghost of Moira Karp. Once a teenage girl pushed to suicide, Moira is now an unstoppable force on a mission of gruesome retribution. But when she goes too far, Lincoln must prevent her from spiraling out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Penny Dreadful Picture Show (2013)
Daffy undead gal Penny Dreadful, her smitten zombie buddy Ned, and lycanthrope Wolfboy relate three tales of terror in an old rundown movie theater: A young couple find themselves being stalked by a lethal jack-in-the-box in "Slash-in-the-Box;" mousy young lady Alice tries to figure out what exactly happened to her last night in "The Morning After;" and a group of friends encounter an eccentric backwoods family after their van breaks down in the middle of nowhere in "The Slaughter House."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Intruders?
The closest matches to Intruders are Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Before I Wake (2016) and The Melancholy Fantastic (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Intruders?
People who watched Intruders most often go on to Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Before I Wake (2016) and The Melancholy Fantastic (2011).
What is the highest-rated movie like Intruders?
The Others (2001), rated 7.6/10 by 7,560 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Intruders?
Dark Harvest (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Intruders?
Yes: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Before I Wake (2016) and The Melancholy Fantastic (2011).
How are movies similar to Intruders chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Intruders, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.