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Movies Like The Head Incident

If you liked The Head Incident (1999), a horror movie directed by James D. Rolfe, 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. 1Vicious

    Vicious (2025)

    ★ 6/10Also horror

    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.

  2. 2Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  3. 3Watcher

    Watcher (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror

    As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

  4. 4Night of the Hunted

    Night of the Hunted (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her…

  5. 5Abduction

    Abduction (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by…

  6. 6Hide and Seek

    Hide and Seek (2005)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror

    David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an…

  7. 7Whisper

    Whisper (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror

    Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.

  8. 8Body Bags

    Body Bags (1993)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new…

  9. 9Play Dead

    Play Dead (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror

    A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

  10. 10Nightmare Cinema

    Nightmare Cinema (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror

    A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious…

  11. 11The Deliverance

    The Deliverance (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also horror

    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…

  12. 12Frank and Penelope

    Frank and Penelope (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also 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…

  13. 13Containment

    Containment (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also 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?

  14. 14Blackwood

    Blackwood (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also 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…

  15. 15The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10Also horror

    When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can…

  16. 16The Grandmother

    The Grandmother (1970)

    ★ 6.6/10Also horror

    To escape neglect and abuse from his parents, a young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.

  17. 17Succubus

    Succubus (2024)

    ★ 8.3/10Also horror

    A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he…

  18. 18Play Dead

    Play Dead (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    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…

  19. 19Never Let Go

    Never Let Go (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.

  20. 20Body Cam

    Body Cam (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.

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