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Movies Like Shelf Life

If you liked Shelf Life (2004), a horror movie directed by Mark Tuit, 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. 1Blackwood

    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…

  2. 2Frank 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…

  3. 3Abduction

    Abduction (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also 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…

  4. 4Whisper

    Whisper (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror

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

  5. 5Bloodline

    Bloodline (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

  6. 6The Last Breath

    The Last Breath (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also horror

    A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white…

  7. 7The Town that Dreaded Sundown

    The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

  8. 8The Dead Zone

    The Dead Zone (1983)

    ★ 7/10Also horror

    Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an…

  9. 9Mikey

    Mikey (1992)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, but their perfect little child is not what he appears to be. His…

  10. 10Deep Water

    Deep Water (2026)

    ★ 7.4/10Also horror

    A group of international passengers on a flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai is forced to make an emergency landing in shark-infested waters. The terrified group is forced to work together and overcome their…

  11. 11Nightmare 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…

  12. 12Bloodline Killer

    Bloodline Killer (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.

  13. 13Saint Catherine

    Saint Catherine (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.

  14. 14Play 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…

  15. 15Eradication

    Eradication (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and…

  16. 16Shades of Desire

    Shades of Desire (2023)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror

    After her twin sister Aubrey goes missing, Jennifer uncovers the scandalous, secret double-life that Aubrey leads - and that has put both of them in danger.

  17. 17The Boy Behind the Door

    The Boy Behind the Door (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    Bobby tries to save himself and his best friend when they are kidnapped on their way home from school.

  18. 18Succubus

    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…

  19. 19Containment

    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?

  20. 20The Dreadful

    The Dreadful (2026)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    In medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne's past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious…

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