Movies like The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is most extreme on ERA BIAS — analog-era texture at 006. Everything below is a movie that lands near it on the same six axes, which is a different question from "what else is tagged horror". Ranked by distance, closest first.
That is The Wicker Man’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock · 1960 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
74% shared signal
Session 9
Brad Anderson · 2001 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
72% shared signal
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick · 1980 · Film
Shares restraint over gore.
72% shared signal
Halloween
John Carpenter · 1978 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
72% shared signal
Carrie
Brian De Palma · 1976 · Film
Shares human monsters.
71% shared signal
Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski · 1968 · Film
Shares restraint over gore.
71% shared signal
Don't Look Now
Nicolas Roeg · 1973 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
68% shared signal
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Tobe Hooper · 1974 · Film
Shares human monsters.
62% shared signal
The Blair Witch Project
D. Myrick & E. Sánchez · 1999 · Film
61% shared signal
Jaws
Steven Spielberg · 1975 · Film
60% shared signal
Scream
Wes Craven · 1996 · Film
59% shared signal
Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero · 1968 · Film
58% shared signal
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