Movies Like The Activated Man

If you liked The Activated Man (2024), a thriller and horror movie directed by Nicholas Gyeney, 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
Blackwood (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horror
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home…
2
Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he…
3
Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horror
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
4
Play Dead (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is…
5
You'll Never Find Me (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the…
6
Cheat (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and horror
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek…
7
Frank and Penelope (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and horror
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…
8
Abandoned (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
9
Whisper (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
10
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horror
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
11
Sightless (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and horror
After an attack renders her blind, Ellen withdraws from the world to recover. But soon she plunges into paranoia, unable to convince anyone that her assailant has returned to terrorize her by hiding in plain sight.
12
Awake (2007)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make…
13
Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also thriller and horror
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
14
The Infernal Machine (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…
15
The Evil (1978)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller and horror
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
16
The Deliverance (2024)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services…
17
The Virtuoso (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
Danger, deception and murder descend upon a sleepy town when a professional assassin accepts a new assignment from his enigmatic boss.
18
Don't Move (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller
A grieving woman in a secluded forest encounters a killer who injects her with a paralytic drug. As her body shuts down, her fight for survival begins.
19
Vicious (2025)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
20
Hider in the House (1989)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.