Movies like The Monster 2016

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The Monster (2016)
 5.4
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The Monster (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother and her 10-year old daughter are trapped in a forest. There is something in this forest. Something unlike anything they have heard before. Something that lurks in the darkness and it’s coming after them.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, spooky, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, creepy, dark fantasy, mad
Plot: mother daughter relationship, road trip, creature, strong female lead, creature feature, ambulance, mother, car accident, trapped, forest, strong female character, monster, broken family, found footage, alcohol abuse, shark, survival, teenager, travel, children, dead man, supernatural, killer animal, macabre, youth ...
Time: 2010s

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Most similar movies to The Monster

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and disturbing films with plots about monster, creature, supernatural, danger, creature feature, murder and nightmare mostly in Horror, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Monster: Wildling (2018), Mama (2013), The Maus (2017), Before I Wake (2016), Southbound (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.5
 14K
Wildling (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, spooky, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, teenage girl, puberty, forest, captive, mysterious past, legend, freedom, wilderness, tragic event, survival, single parent ...
Time: 2010s
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100%
 6.2
 190K
Mama (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scary, suspense, gothic, frightening, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, children, haunted house, mother daughter relationship, afterlife, macabre, adoption, danger, revenge, redemption ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.4
 5K
The Maus (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alex and Selma are a couple in love on a trip to the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Suddenly, Selma feels a mysterious force is chasing them.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: couples, couple relations, dark secret, bomb threat, forest, family relations, family problems, death threat, threat, male female relationship, nightmare, travel ...
Place: bosnia herzegovina
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 51K
Before I Wake (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: subconscious, supernatural, dream, orphan, child, nightmare, adoption, supernatural power, monster, supernatural ability, danger, insomnia ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 5.9
 21K
Southbound (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are ...
Style: anthology, suspense, dark, disturbing, spooky ...
Plot: desert, occult, macabre, survival, highway, masked killer, road trip, trapped, murder, monster, multiple storylines, chase ...
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Under the Bed (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mystical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nightmare comes true, family in danger, supernatural, suburbs, creature, youth, brother brother relationship, supernatural horror, dark past, nightmare, recurring nightmare, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 15K
Hatching (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
Style: suspense, surreal, slasher, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: monster, egg, creature, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, family conflict, body horror, teenage girl, female warrior, teenager, athlete's life, problem ...
Time: 2020s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Awakening of Lilith (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Plot: survival horror, death of loved one, survival, insanity, danger, mind game, isolation, confinement indoors, death, characters in danger, trap, race against time ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped ...
Style: scary, creepy, splatter, suspense, gothic ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, gory, confined, blood, halloween, apocalypse, monster, family in danger, danger ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.2
 27K
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A man conjures up a gigantic vengeance demon called Pumpkinhead to destroy the teenagers who accidentally killed his son.
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: supernatural, demon, witch, vengeance, murder, pumpkin, revenge, monster, macabre, father son relationship, curse, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 3.6
 1K
Monsterwolf (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A creature of ancient legend manifests, bound to protect the ecological balance of the land and killing anyone that threatens it. This elusive guardian is initially both feared and celebrated by the locals, but when a deadly curse affects them all, ...
Style: scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: werewolf, indian burial ground, ghost, danger, escapades, rivalry, vengeance, small town life, heroes, monster, oil company, wolf ...
Place: louisiana, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 143K
The Shallows (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.
Style: scary, minimal cast, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: shark, survival, surfing, animal attack, creature feature, trapped, killer shark, shark attack, ocean, beach, sea, stranded ...
Time: year 2016, future, 2010s
Place: mexico, texas, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.8
 16K
Black Water (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: crocodile, survival, animal attack, swamp, trapped, tourist, couples, shark, killer animal, creature, vacation, creature feature ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 3.8
 2K
Ogre (2008)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A vicious Ogre rules over a town that has been stuck in time since the 1800's.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot: ogre, small town, curse, supernatural, deadly creature, isolation, supernatural ability, escapades, curses spells and rituals, save the day, danger, urban legend ...
Time: 1800s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.2
 33K
Rogue (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, scenic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: crocodile, monster, animal attack, gory, dangerous animal, survival horror, killer animal, creature, beast, isolation, survival, creature feature ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.0
 3K
Deep Dark (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Hermann considers suicide until he finds a strange talking hole in the wall that has the power to fulfill his wildest dreams, or become his worst nightmare.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, monster, desire, supernatural power, characters in danger, killings, death, evil, supernatural ability, society, rescue, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.3
 38K
Lamb (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Iceland, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development, and the prospects of a new ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, scary, psychedelic, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: parenthood, farm, folk horror, creature, body horror, grief, husband wife relationship, supernatural, dysfunctional family, family secret, family tragedy, family relations ...
Time: 2020s
Place: iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 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 ⇓
18%
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 5.5
 7K
Dark Harvest (2023)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: dark, bleak, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: halloween, cornfield, monster, village, children, small village, fight, brutality, survival, supernatural, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 1.4
 466
Apex Predators (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: The bodies of beach goers begin washing ashore during the grand opening of a new resort. The town Mayor (Mel Novak) attempts to cover it up with dire results.
Style: tense, scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: shark, shark attack, creature feature, murder, violence, killer shark, survival, chase, gory, dangerous animal, youth, forces of nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.1
 142K
The Strangers (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, serial killer, murder, hostage, masked killer, blood, fear, violence, masked villain, brutality, night ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
You Won't Be Alone (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Australia, UK, Serbia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the ...
Style: gothic horror, scary, disturbing, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: witch, witchcraft, supernatural, demonic possession, violence, shapeshifting, female protagonist, supernatural horror, supernatural being, village, paranormal activity, supernatural power ...
Time: 19th century, 2020s
Place: macedonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.5
 578K
A Quiet Place (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style: suspense, scary, minimal cast, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: creature, post apocalypse, creature feature, sign language, monster, survival, silence, deafness, survival horror, fear, alien, pregnancy ...
Time: 2010s, distant future, near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Wicked Little Things (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, undead, abandoned house, zombie child, danger, missing person, small town life, small town, parents and children, ghost, creepy kid, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.3
 264
Lost Creek (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: As they approach the end of childhood, three elementary school kids must brave the woods on Halloween to face a monster born from their nightmares.
Style: scary, bleak, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: halloween, youth, ghost, ghost girl, monster, basement, supernatural power, murder, victim, mission, hunting, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
 217K
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style: disturbing, dark fantasy, suspense, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychic power, supernatural, stephen king, psychic, ghost, murder, doctor, native american, fear, haunted house, terror, magician ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 80s, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, iowa, colorado, ohio, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.8
 56K
Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Under the Shadow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Jordan, Qatar, Iran
Duration: 84 min.
Story: As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war torn Tehran of the 80s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Style: suspense, intense, stylized, creepy, post-horror ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, brutality, danger, war, ghost, supernatural power, mother daughter relationship, djinn, haunted house, paranormal, paranormal activity, female warrior ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, iran, maghreb, jordan, tehran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.5
 299K
It Chapter Two (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Because every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry, Maine, it chapter two brings the chapters - who've long since gone their separate ways - back together as adults, nearly three decades after the events of the first film.
Style: scary, slasher, bloody, epic, spooky ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: clown, evil clown, killer clown, stephen king, fear, group of friends, evil, panic, carnival, murder, asthma, kids in trouble ...
Time: year 2019, 80s, year 1989, 2010s, year 2016
Place: maine, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.8
 20K
Absentia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on ...
Style: scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, lovecraft, serious ...
Plot: tunnel, missing husband, supernatural, missing person, sister sister relationship, investigator, grief, cosmic horror, woman in danger, evil force, hopes, creature ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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