Movies like The Witch
The Witch is most extreme on TONE — a bleak, unforgiving tone at 008. 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 Witch’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
The Babadook
Jennifer Kent · 2014 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
88% shared signal
A Dark Song
Liam Gavin · 2016 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
87% shared signal
It Follows
David Robert Mitchell · 2014 · Film
Shares modern craft.
87% shared signal
Hereditary
Ari Aster · 2018 · Film
Shares a supernatural threat.
86% shared signal
Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson · 2008 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
85% shared signal
The Ring
Gore Verbinski · 2002 · Film
Shares a supernatural threat.
81% shared signal
Oculus
Mike Flanagan · 2013 · Film
Shares modern craft.
77% shared signal
Sinister
Scott Derrickson · 2012 · Film
76% shared signal
Ringu
Hideo Nakata · 1998 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
75% shared signal
Skinamarink
Kyle Edward Ball · 2022 · Film
75% shared signal
Paranormal Activity
Oren Peli · 2007 · Film
72% shared signal
The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers · 2019 · Film
71% shared signal
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