
Shows that feel likeIT: Welcome to Derry (2025–)
If you loved IT: Welcome to Derry, the closest series we have are The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) and Midnight Mass (2021). All three share IT: Welcome to Derry's contemplative and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lanterns (2026).
If IT: Welcome to Derry hit the spot, these will too

Slow-building dread where the horror is braided into grief and love
The difference: A gothic romance at heart — it wants to make you cry, not scream

Sins coming due one by one under a creeping supernatural ledger
The difference: Baroque and blackly funny — satire sharpens the scares

Contemplative and twisty in the same breath

Period horror where the danger spreads while the powerful look away
The difference: A political zombie epic — sword fights, not small-town secrets

A prequel that makes known horrors scarier by showing how they grew
The difference: Human psychosis, not ancient evil — the monster is a boy

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A dream home curdling into paranoia one unsettling detail at a time
The difference: True-crime unease with no payoff — famously unresolved

Isolated young misfits against an institution keeping sinister secrets
The difference: Spanish teen-thriller pulp — thinner atmosphere, soapier twists

A picture-perfect town whose smiling surface hides something monstrous
The difference: Sci-fi twist machinery — mystery-box answers over lingering dread

A grounded murder investigation slowly bending toward the impossible
The difference: Procedural and adult — no kids'-eye view of the evil

Kids probing their town's supernatural underside ahead of the adults
The difference: Adventure-forward and softened — the frights stay YA-safe

Both keep coming back to the same thing: small town life
The difference: Sits closer to sci-fi & fantasy than IT: Welcome to Derry does
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