Movies like It Follows

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It Follows (2014)
 6.8
 267K
It Follows (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horror that seems to be only a few steps behind.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological horror, dark, independent film, demonic, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, macabre, evil, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, sex, supernatural being, supernatural horror, peeping tom, teenager, stalking, beach, death, nudity, friendship, paranoia, sex scene, brutality, loneliness, terror, swing, girl next door ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: detroit, michigan, usa, california
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Most similar movies to It Follows

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspense, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about supernatural, fear, ghost, terror, blood, death and gore mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like It Follows: Oculus (2013), Case 39 (2009), Orphan (2009), Head Count (2018), Mirrors (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.5
 139K
Oculus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, frightening, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, mirror, supernatural horror, danger, siblings relations, paranormal activity, ghost, insanity, brother sister relationship, demon, hallucination ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, year 2002, 2000s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 93K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 250K
Orphan (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 5K
Head Count (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During a weekend getaway to Joshua Tree, a group of teenagers find themselves under mental and physical assault from a supernatural entity that mimics their appearances as it completes an ancient ritual.
Style: twist ending, scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, brother brother relationship, supernatural, curse, demon, weekend getaway, monster, transformation, survival, isolation, danger, mutation ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 113K
Mirrors (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, rough ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, evil, demon, supernatural horror, mirror, twists and turns, investigation, possession, death, uncover truth, female nudity ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 154K
Smile (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past ...
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: curse, murder, supernatural power, female protagonist, evil smile, going insane, supernatural, demon, fear, psychiatric ward, psychotic, spirit ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 101K
Dead Silence (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: ghost, doll, supernatural, macabre, murder, ventriloquist, small town, clown, investigation, urban legend, danger, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 150K
The Visit (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, elderly, danger, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, sibling relationship, farm, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, basement ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, predating the haunting of the Lambert family in the earlier movies and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm The Further.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, demonic, intense ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, ghost, demon, psychic, curses spells and rituals, family in danger, family problems, haunted, supernatural power, evil spirit ...
Time: year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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.
Style: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 51K
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, good versus evil, demon, serial killer, investigation, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: chicago, japan, asia, usa, pasadena california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 22K
Starry Eyes (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Style: scary, surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: gory, hollywood, religions or cults, ambition, aspiring actress, secret society, filmmaking, occult, casting, casting couch, violence, friendship ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 5.3
 60K
Sinister 2 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Style: scary, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, murder, evil child, burned alive, nightmare, investigation, deputy, ghost child, abusive husband, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 45K
The Ward (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, supernatural, ghost, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, murder, doctors and patients, brutality, danger, hospital, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 60s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, found footage, demon, investigation, mental illness, insanity, kidnapping, serial killer, surveillance, possession, snake, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 278K
Sinister (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, investigation, evil force, paranormal activity, writer's life ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 60s, year 1966 ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 25K
Pulse (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, internet, supernatural, afterlife, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 176K
Barbarian (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, spooky, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: basement, fear, psychopath, locked in a room, kidnapping, secret passageway, plot twist, inbreeding, locked in, serial killer, female protagonist, house ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: detroit, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.2
 38K
Slender Man (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
Style: bad ending, suspense, scary, psychological, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, urban legend, evil spirit, kidnapping, teenager, friendship, teenage protagonist, small town, woods, teenage girl, evil, monster ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.3
 373K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fear, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family, ghost, grief, demon, seance, supernatural, evil spirit, possession, secret society, funeral ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish ...
Style: atmospheric, cult classic, gothic, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: carnival, ghost, female protagonist, supernatural, zombie, afterlife, amusement park, car accident, surrealism, spirit, macabre, visceral ...
Time: year 1962
Place: salt lake city utah, utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying ...
Style: scary, suspense, dark, bad ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, witch, supernatural horror, autopsy, morgue, demon, witchcraft, corpse, dead woman, mutilation, supernatural power, murder ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place: salem massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story: A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.4
 174K
Annabelle (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, evil doll, supernatural horror, demonic possession, doll, death, toys, self sacrifice, curses spells and rituals, paranormal activity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2000, year 2014, 2010s ...
Place: usa, california, santa monica california, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 298K
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, demonic possession, paranormal investigation, demon, single mother, supernatural horror, psychic, fear, child in peril, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1976, year 1977 ...
Place: england, peru, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 305K
Halloween (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, holiday horror, small town, psychiatrist, babysitter, violence, violent, babysitting ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, independent film, mockumentary ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: found footage, witch, supernatural, urban legend, woods, fear, folk horror, survival, lost in the woods, wilderness, videotaping, panic ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1994
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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