Movies that feel likeThe Witch (2016)
If you loved The Witch, the closest films we have are Nosferatu (2024), The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017) and You're Next (2013). All three share The Witch's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Good Manners (2018).
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If The Witch hit the spot, these will too
Robert Eggers' own painstaking, dread-soaked period atmosphere again
The difference: Gothic vampire romance, not a Puritan family's creeping paranoia
The same preoccupation in both: possession
The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than The Witch does
Both land dread and unease at once
The difference: Trades the dream logic of The Witch for an angle of its own
Both are Robert Eggers's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Witch does
One thread runs through both: isolation
The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft
Slow, unsettling dread built from folklore and a woman's hidden nature
The difference: An urban nanny mystery, not a remote farm under siege
Both keep coming back to the same thing: isolation
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics
Dreamlike and twisty in the same breath
Lonely horror, and it commits to that
Fantasy with a pulse of dread, in both cases
A rural community consumed by something ancient, evil, and creeping
The difference: A police-procedural mystery framing, not one family's isolation
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