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Movies that feel like Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest (2020)

If you loved Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest, the closest films we have are The Bride (2017), The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead (2018) and The Borderlands (2014). All three share Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

4.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevskydreadunsettling

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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.6mystery · horror · thriller

The same hand behind both of them: Svyatoslav Podgaevsky

The difference: Leans further into mystery

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead
2018 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.4horror · fantasy · romance

Svyatoslav Podgaevsky directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Played as fantasy first

An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.

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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%6.2horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

The shared currency is unease

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Cut from the same horror cloth

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%6.2horror

The horror is handled with the same confidence

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%5.5horror

Horror of the same temperament

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%5.7horror

Both know what they want from horror

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Both are horror through and through

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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