Movies like The Descent

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The Descent (2005)
 7.2
 245K
The Descent (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, psychological, twist ending, splatter ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, cave, survival horror, creature, trapped, survival, expedition, claustrophobia, fear, gory, group of friends, woman in danger, darkness, mutant, violence, supernatural, panic, grief, vacation, underground, isolation, blindness, extreme violence, blood, gory violence ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: north carolina, appalachia
Keyword: disgust, british horror, irish, american, challenge

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Most similar movies to The Descent

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary and slasher films with plots about danger, survival, blood, survival horror, deadly, monster and gore mostly in Horror, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Descent: The Descent: Part 2 (2009), The Cave (2005), High Lane (2009), The Ruins (2008), As Above, So Below (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, scary, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, monster, survival, creature, sole survivor, deadly creature, supernatural, survival horror, gory, expedition, claustrophobia, missing person ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.1
 41K
The Cave (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, scary, underground horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, diver, deadly creature, danger, creature, supernatural, monster, underwater, parasite, diving, transformation ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 5.6
 8K
High Lane (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned, especially as they soon realize that they are not alone. The adventure turns into a ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, serious ...
Plot: survival, mountain, climbing, serial murder, danger, trap, stalking, mountain climbing, friends, escapades, isolation, survival horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 83K
The Ruins (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, jungle, gory, ruins, vacation, death, self sacrifice, chase, ancient mystery, danger, murder, parasite ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: mexico, oceania, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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As Above, So Below (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, survival, archaeology, treasure hunt, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.1
 130K
Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 6.8
 65K
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A squad of British soldiers on training in the lonesome Scottish wilderness find a wounded Special Forces captain and the remains of his team. As they encounter zoologist Megan, it turns out that werewolves are active in the region. They have to ...
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: werewolf, gory, supernatural, soldier, full moon, macabre, survival, wilderness, monster, woods, military, survival horror ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: scotland, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.0
 24K
Backcountry (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, nature, camping, bear, dangerous animal, lost in the woods, danger, bear attack, lost, woods, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style: bloody, suspense, scary, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot: gory, serial killer, photographer, psychopath, violent, butcher, subway, violence, twists and turns, obsession, torture, train ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 4.5
 9K
Catacombs (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, Romania
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On her first trip to Paris, a young woman hits a party in the Catacombs, the 200-mile labyrinth of limestone.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: twists and turns, confined, danger, woman in danger, gory, underground, isolation, murder, murder of sister, darkness, prank, catacomb ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.
Style: scary, bloody, disturbing, sadistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: cannibal, desert, cannibalism, gory, psychopath, supernatural, torture, serial killer, monster, military, blood, rescue ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.9
 77K
Quarantine (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Style: tense, suspenseful, scary, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virus, zombie, quarantine, found footage, infection, gory, plague, trapped, graphic violence, supernatural, rabies, pandemic ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 4.8
 10K
Black Rock (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, woman in danger, manhunt, self defense, strong violent content, friends, human prey, confined, chase, chases and races, danger, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.6
 83K
Cabin Fever (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, rough, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, gory, infected, disease, body horror, plague, danger, fear, woods, survival, cabin in the woods, friendship ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.2
 80K
Frozen (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: utah, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.8
 25K
Wind Chill (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, winter, danger, on the road, road trip, frostbite, snow, wilderness, haunted, haunting, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 2000s, 50s, year 1953 ...
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Green Inferno (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Chile, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style: bloody, scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, survival, gory, decapitation, ant, sadistic horror, suicide, violence, sadistic violence ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 6.2
 34K
Feast (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Patrons locked inside of a bar are forced to fight monsters.
Style: scary, splatter, suspenseful, exciting, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, date night
Plot: monster, gory, siege, graphic violence, desert, impregnation, creature feature, danger, violence spree, escapades, creature, survival ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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30 Days of Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted ...
Style: scary, creepy, suspense, atmospheric, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, small town, winter, survival, gory, snow, monster, supernatural, zombie, sunrise, blood, creature ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, oceania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.4
 195K
REC (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Style: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: found footage, zombie, fear, trapped, epidemic, videotaping, gory, journalist, infected, blood, plague, infection ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, usa, barcelona, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.1
 54K
The Collection (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the ...
Style: slasher, bloody, scary, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, trap, kidnapping, torture, masked killer, sadistic horror, massacre, survival, psychopath, escape, crazy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.5
 32K
Dead End (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, tense, christmas horror ...
Plot: time loop, forest, ghost, supernatural horror, danger, wrong place wrong time, road trip, fear, supernatural, gory, survival, time travel ...
Time: year 2003
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, alien, giant monster, survival, survival horror, danger, destruction, fear, creature, chaos ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Devil Below (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, creature, deadly creature, monster, violence, creature feature, chase, murder, death, friendship, fear, peril ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibalism, gory, desert, survival, torture, rape, fear, human monster, victim, kidnapping, danger, massacre ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.1
 93K
Crawl (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: While struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators.
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, psychotronic, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: animal attack, survival, trapped, disaster, flood, alligator, natural disaster, creature feature, hurricane, survival horror, killer animal, predator ...
Time: 2010s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five backpackers, diving in a ruined underwater city, quickly learn they are not alone in the submerged caves.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychotronic, teen horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: shark, sea, underwater, panic, animal attack, killer shark, shark attack, fear, research, great white shark, survival horror, chase ...
Time: 2010s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
[REC] 4: Apocalypse (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ángela Vidal the young television reporter who entered the building with the fireman, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don?t know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional ...
Style: bloody, scary, bleak, suspense, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, quarantine, zombie outbreak, demonic possession, gory, virus, found footage, isolation, chaos, danger, violence spree, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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