Movies Like Handling the Undead

If you liked Handling the Undead (2024), a horror and drama movie directed by Thea Hvistendahl, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
2
Bird Box (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and drama
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
3
The Babadook (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
4
Antichrist (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
5
After.Life (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and horror
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
6
It Comes at Night (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives…
7
Leave the World Behind (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and mystery
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
8
The Keeping Hours (2017)
★ 7/10Also drama and horror
A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten…
9
Hereditary (2018)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and mystery
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
10
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
11
Midsommar (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and drama
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets…
12
The Surrender (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
13
Baby Blues (2008)
★ 6/10Also drama and horror
On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
14
Presence (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and drama
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in…
15
Inland Empire (2006)
★ 7/10Also horror and mystery
When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
16
Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)
★ 7/10Also horror and mystery
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.
17
Viking Wolf (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and mystery
After witnessing a grotesque murder at a party in her new town, a teenager starts having strange visions and bizarre desires.
18
Castle Freak (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
19
Gerald's Game (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and drama
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
20
Old (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and horror
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.