Movies Like The Wicksboro Incident

If you liked The Wicksboro Incident (2003), a horror and science fiction movie directed by Richard Lowry, 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.

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Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and science fiction
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful…
2
Alien Abduction (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
3
Phase IV (1974)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and science fiction
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
4
The Arrival (1996)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the…
5
Nope (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and science fiction
Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.
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The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thriller
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
7
The Phoenix Tapes '97 (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and science fiction
In 1997, four campers went missing during the Phoenix Lights incident and their bodies were never found. The Phoenix Tapes 97 is comprised of their final footage. This film is dedicated to the lives lost during the…
8
Déjà Vu (2006)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and science fiction
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a…
9
Disclosure Day (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also science fiction and thriller
A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove…
10
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and horror
Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up…
11
The Bay (2012)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and science fiction
Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
12
Savageland (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thriller
When a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.
13
The X-Files (1998)
★ 6.9/10Also science fiction and thriller
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
14
Terminator Salvation (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as…
15
Winchester (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller
San Jose, California, 1906. Isolated in her labyrinthine mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester believes that she is being haunted by the souls of those killed by the guns manufactured by her company.
16
The Forever Purge (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and thriller
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their…
17
Hollow Man (2000)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the…
18
Automata (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and science fiction
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
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Hardware (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home…
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The Empty Man (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.