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Movies that feel like Don't Worry Darling (2022)

If you loved Don't Worry Darling, the closest films we have are Color Out of Space (2020), 28 Years Later (2025) and A Classic Horror Story (2021). All three share Don't Worry Darling's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

🍅 38% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Olivia Wildetensecerebraltwistydreadunsettling

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Color Out of Space
2020 · dir. Richard Stanley
🍅 86%6.1horror · science fiction · mystery

Tense where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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28 Years Later
2025 · dir. Danny Boyle
🍅 88%6.6horror · thriller · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: cult

The difference: Missing the twists of Don't Worry Darling

Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%5.7horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: cult

The difference: Leans harder into horror than Don't Worry Darling does

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%6.2horror · mystery

Twisty and dread-soaked in the same breath

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Knock at the Cabin
2023 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 67%6.1horror · mystery · thriller

Unsettling thriller in both cases

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%6.9mystery · horror · thriller

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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A Cure for Wellness
2017 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 42%6.4horror · mystery · science fiction

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%6.7thriller · horror · mystery

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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The Whole Truth
2021 · dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
5.2horror · mystery · thriller

Both lean on dread more than on mystery

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%6.7horror · mystery · thriller

Both lean on unease more than on science fiction

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%6.4horror · thriller · mystery

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 · dir. Adam Stein
🍅 92%6.7horror · mystery

Common ground: amused

Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

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