Movies like Howard’s Mill (2021)
The best movies like Howard’s Mill (2021) are Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023), Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch (2024) and The Fear Footage 3AM (2021). If Howard’s Mill hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedAlien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)7.5/10 from 216 votes
- NewestHunting Matthew Nichols (2026)Released 2026
Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023)
In 2018 a string of tragedies unfold in the high desert of North Eastern Nevada. A woman was found dead and another would vanish along the same stretch of remote highway. Could these events be linked to the infamous 2017 disappearance of outdoorsman Gary Hinge?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch (2024)
As a wildfire bears down on the opposite side of the state, Oscar Mendoza, armed with a secret, takes advantage of the distraction and journeys to Northeastern Nevada in search of missing outdoorsman Gary Hinge's last known whereabouts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
The Fear Footage 3AM (2021)
Dennis Rosen disappeared on September 19th, 2020, while filming an episode for his urban exploration channel ‘Dennis the Explorer.’ He was exploring Darkbluff, Maryland — a town that authorities discovered abandoned during their search for Dennis. They also discovered a camera. This footage was on that camera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTinsman Road (2025)
In the backwoods of New Jersey a young man navigates the serpentine mystery surrounding his long-missing sister and their family home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Leaving D.C. (2013)
After 20 years of living in Washington, D.C., Mark Klein seeks much-needed solace by moving to the remote wilds of West Virginia. To ease his loneliness, he sends regular video updates to members of his OCD-support group back in the city. But Mark gradually realizes that despite his new, isolated setting, he may not be alone. From the endless woods surrounding his home, something else is watching.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorror in the High Desert (2021)
In July 2017, an experienced outdoor enthusiast vanished in Northern Nevada while on an outdoor excursion. After an extensive search, he was never located. On the three-year anniversary of his disappearance, friends and loved ones recall the events leading up to his vanishing, and for the first time, speak about the horrifying conclusion of his fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisButterfly Kisses (2018)
A filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his own, he loses himself and the film crew following him into his project.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like this#MissingCouple (2024)
A real #vanlife couple were on an adventure to renovate an abandoned farm in middle-of-nowhere Mississippi. Cameras blazing, they chronicled their project on social media. But the farm was full of disturbing surprises, especially at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
The Lost Footage of Leah Sullivan (2018)
An unedited memory card from a camera shows Leah Sullivan's school project about a cold case murder that doesn't seem to be so cold after all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
The Fear Footage (2018)
On April 19th, 2016, Deputy Leo Cole vanished. The next morning, his body camera was found.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Evidence (2013)
Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisSavageland (2015)
When a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHollows Grove (2014)
A young filmmaker documents his ghost-hunting, reality show friends as their routine investigation of an abandoned orphanage turns into a nightmare from which they can't escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCurse of the Blair Witch (1999)
A mockumentary exploring the legend of the Blair Witch and the case of the three missing student filmmakers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFound Footage 3D (2016)
A group of filmmakers sets out to make the first 3D found footage horror movie, but find themselves IN the first 3D found footage horror movie when the evil entity from their film escapes into their behind-the-scenes footage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisProject MKHEXE (2025)
Tim films his brother Sean's funeral after his suicide, then uncovers Sean's fixation with a nonexistent online urban legend about a failed government mind control experiment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Evidence (2011)
Ryan is making a documentary on his friend, Brett, about camping for the first time. However, once they begin camping, they discover that there is a mysterious figure that is hunting them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath of a Vlogger (2019)
An ambitious vlogger experiences the dark side of the internet when his latest video, which features an alleged haunting, goes viral.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fear Footage 2: Curse of the Tape (2020)
On April 19th, 2019, Deputy Leo Cole's body camera footage from the night he disappeared was leaked. On that footage, he watched a mysterious V/H/S tape titled "The Fear Footage". On September 22nd, 2019, a camera was found in Darkbluff, Maryland with footage of two missing men who were searching for that same V/H/S tape. This is that footage..
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Hunting Matthew Nichols (2026)
Twenty-three years after her brother mysteriously disappeared on Vancouver Island, a documentary filmmaker sets out to solve his missing person's case. When a disturbing piece of evidence is revealed, she comes to believe he might still be alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Holes in the Sky: The Sean Miller Story (2021)
In July of 2013 Sean Miller disappeared for four days. Seven years later a documentary film crew found out why.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
There Are Monsters (2013)
A crew of student filmmakers embark on a road trip when they discover odd events and people acting strangely around them. Soon, they realise that sinister doppelgangers have invaded the town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrange Harvest (2025)
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisMurder Death Koreatown (2020)
The bizarre found footage from an investigation into a true crime murder. An unemployed man’s curiosity about his neighbor’s murder warps into a conspiratorial obsession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
The Triangle (2016)
Three filmmakers receive an unsettling postcard from an estranged friend living in a secluded commune. The filmmakers take their cameras into the wilderness of Montana to document the mysterious inner workings of the group. On their disconcerting road to self-sufficiency, witnessing something more shocking than they ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
Until Dawn (2025)
One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find themselves stalked by a masked killer and horrifically murdered one by one...only to wake up and find themselves back at the beginning of the same evening.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Howard’s Mill?
The closest matches to Howard’s Mill are Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023), Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch (2024) and The Fear Footage 3AM (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Howard’s Mill?
People who watched Howard’s Mill most often go on to Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023), Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch (2024) and The Fear Footage 3AM (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like Howard’s Mill?
Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998), rated 7.5/10 by 216 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Howard’s Mill?
Hunting Matthew Nichols (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Howard’s Mill?
Yes: Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023), Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch (2024) and The Fear Footage 3AM (2021).
How are movies similar to Howard’s Mill chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Howard’s Mill, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.