Movies Like Nøcken

If you liked Nøcken (2018), a horror movie directed by Nicolai G.H. Johansen, 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
Terrifier (2011)
★ 6/10Also horror
After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal entity.
2
Other Side of the Box (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also horror
A couple receives a mysterious package from an old friend.
3
American Horror House (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also horror
On Halloween night, a sorority house is overrun with ghosts, while a vengeful housemother goes on a killing spree.
4
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also horror
Martin's daughter, Emma, takes up a night watch job to find out what happened to her parents almost thirty years ago. A meeting with Wörmer in his cell pulls the serial killer out of his coma and sets in motion a chain…
5
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)
★ 5.9/10Also horror
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
6
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.
7
The Other (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also horror
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to…
8
The Inhabitant (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also horror
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her…
9
The Uncanny (1977)
★ 5.8/10Also horror
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline…
10
The Evil (1978)
★ 5.8/10Also horror
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
11
Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders (2022)
★ 6/10Also horror
A family reunion at a remote mansion takes a lethal turn when they are trapped inside and forced to play a deadly survival game where only one will make it out alive.
12
Bloodline Killer (2024)
★ 6/10Also horror
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
13
Nightwatch (1994)
★ 6.9/10Also horror
Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.
14
Two Witches (2023)
★ 6/10Also horror
A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering the most horrific curses.
15
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…
16
Blood Punch (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also horror
Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself…
17
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.
18
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.
19
Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)
★ 5.9/10Also horror
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
20
The Possessed (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also horror
A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the…