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Movies Like Wake Wood

If you liked Wake Wood (2011), a drama and horror movie directed by David Keating, 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. 1Midsommar

    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…

  2. 2Castle Freak

    Castle Freak (1996)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and drama

    John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.

  3. 3The Surrender

    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.

  4. 4The Believers

    The Believers (1987)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the…

  5. 5The Woman

    The Woman (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror

    A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.

  6. 6Hounds of Love

    Hounds of Love (2016)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror

    When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.

  7. 7Antichrist

    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.

  8. 8The Resurrected

    The Resurrected (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller

    Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

  9. 9Savaged

    Savaged (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror

    After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.

  10. 10Dagon

    Dagon (2001)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is…

  11. 11Southbound

    Southbound (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horror

    On a desolate stretch of desert highway, weary travelers — two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family…

  12. 12Caged

    Caged (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and horror

    An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an…

  13. 13Planet Terror

    Planet Terror (2007)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and thriller

    Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors…

  14. 14A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

    A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and thriller

    A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

  15. 15The Hunger

    The Hunger (1983)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and drama

    Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of…

  16. 16Frank and Penelope

    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…

  17. 17Becky

    Becky (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror

    A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

  18. 18A Field in England

    A Field in England (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller

    During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a…

  19. 19Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

    Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

    ★ 7.3/10Also horror and thriller

    An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

  20. 20Candyman

    Candyman (1992)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and horror

    The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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