46 Movies Like The Watchers (2024) You Need to Watch Next
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If you loved The Watchers (2024) by Ishana Night Shyamalan, here are 46 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Fantasy Island, Underworld: Awakening, Death of a Unicorn. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
46 Movies Similar to The Watchers
Fantasy Island
2020 · Jeff Wadlow
A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Underworld: Awakening
2012 · Måns Mårlind
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-ou
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Death of a Unicorn
2025 · Alex Scharfman
A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Tim Burton
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attri
In common: Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
Nosferatu
1922 · F. W. Murnau
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
The Ritual
2017 · David Bruckner
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · Darren Lynn Bousman
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the c
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · André Øvredal
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Ring
2002 · Gore Verbinski
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watch
In common: Horror · Mystery
It Follows
2015 · David Robert Mitchell
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Saw X
2023 · Kevin Greutert
Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II', a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer, only to discover
In common: Horror · Mystery
Last Shift
2014 · Anthony DiBlasi
Rookie police officer Jessica Loren has been assigned the last shift at a closing police station and must wait for a hazmat crew to collect biomedical evidence. Ordered not to leave the station under
In common: Horror · Mystery
1408
2007 · Mikael Håfström
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Oddity
2024 · Damian McCarthy
After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · André Øvredal
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bell
In common: Horror · Mystery
Doctor Sleep
2019 · Mike Flanagan
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who posse
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Barbarian
2022 · Zach Cregger
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better jud
In common: Horror · Mystery
Jigsaw
2017 · Michael Spierig
Law enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabolical new game that's only just begun.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Legion
2010 · Scott Stewart
When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner w
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994 · Wes Craven
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
In common: Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · Samuel Bayer
Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The ma
In common: Horror · Mystery
Priest
2011 · Scott Stewart
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled ci
In common: Fantasy · Horror
The Craft
1996 · Andrew Fleming
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Session 9
2001 · Brad Anderson
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
In common: Horror · Mystery
King Kong
1933 · Merian C. Cooper
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Suspiria
2018 · Luca Guadagnino
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the night
In common: Horror · Mystery
Seventh Son
2014 · Sergei Bodrov
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John
In common: Fantasy
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Interview with the Vampire
1994 · Neil Jordan
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Midsommar
2019 · Ari Aster
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 t
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Innocents
1961 · Jack Clayton
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Jacob's Ladder
1990 · Adrian Lyne
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around hi
In common: Horror · Mystery
Dracula Untold
2014 · Gary Shore
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in ord
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Sleepwalkers
1992 · Mick Garris
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Renfield
2023 · Chris McKay
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quinc
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Death Note
2017 · Adam Wingard
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990 · Joe Dante
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generat
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Dracula
2025 · Luc Besson
In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immorta
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Coraline
2009 · Henry Selick
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a fri
In common: Fantasy
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Tim Burton
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidental
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · Robert Zemeckis
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabo
In common: Fantasy
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016 · Anna Foerster
Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal wa
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2013 · Tommy Wirkola
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and mu
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · Timur Bekmambetov
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
2018 · Ari Sandel
Be careful what you wish for. With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people’s trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a lo
In common: Fantasy
Trick 'r Treat
2007 · Michael Dougherty
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers
In common: Fantasy · Horror