20 best movies like The Barrens (2012)

List of the best movies like The Barrens (2012): Time Lapse, Luciferous, Altitude, We Go On, Slasher, He's Out There, Territories, Elfie Hopkins, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ready or Not.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryCanada

In a high-rise apartment young parents Alex and Mahsa live with their seven-year-old daughter Mina. Everything about the family is completely normal, uncomfortably real: Their home, their jobs, her school, the way they hold and love each other. The line between fact and fiction is blurred because THEY ARE A REAL family. Until completely normal turns into what they fear the most. Alex's injury opens the door to a malevolent force that attacks and dismantles the family one person at a time: A violent aggressor determined to prove that possession is real, unconscionably disturbing and very different from how it's depicted in the movies.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:30

After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:08

WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCanada
Duration00:30

Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:26

On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryFrance, Canada

Five friends return home from a marriage in Canada to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:29

An aspiring teen detective stumbles into her first real case, when investigating the mysterious new family in her neighborhood.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada
Duration02:44

A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:30

A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryCanada
Duration01:29

Kennedy Jamieson, a wealthy socialite, has waited her whole life to have the perfect wedding. Engaged to the charming Ryan Harris, the young couple is just a week away from the big day but hasn't had a chance to celebrate their respective bachelor/bachelorette parties. Ryan's best man Chet books a remote cabin in the woods to throw them a 'Jack and Jill' stag that they'll never forget. Out in the middle of nowhere, things take a horrifying turn as members of the group are brutally picked off one by one. What started out as a celebration quickly descends into a bloody nightmare. Friendships are ripped apart and accusations fly in this blood filled psychological horror with a whodunit twist.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryNetherlands, Belgium

A cocksure, road-raging family man finds himself pursued and terrorized by the vengeful van driver he chooses to tailgate.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryJapan, USA
Duration01:30

Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryCanada
Duration01:22

The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult. Soon, Leon comes to suspect that his mother's oppressive spirit still lingers within her home and is using items in the house to contact him with an urgent message.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be a senseless attack.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, Thailand
Duration02:25

A young couple go on an adventurous vacation to Thailand only to find themselves haunted by a malevolent spirit after naively disrespecting a Ghost House.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:22

An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:40

A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryCanada, Germany
Duration02:08

With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:13

A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
CountryCanada
Duration02:00

Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, peace and goodwill. But for some folks in the small town of Bailey Downs, it turns into something much less festive.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryCanada
Duration01:22

In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away from civilization as possible, they take to the forest, soon to discover the danger posed by other survivors may be the least of their worries.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:33

Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryCanada
Duration01:26

A young couple find themselves in an unnerving situation with a mysterious stalker.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryCanada, France
Duration01:37

A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryCanada

Friends on a weekend excursion take a path into a forest that leads to death and destruction.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:23

A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family take an unexpected turn.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:16

A bachelor party becomes a savage fight for survival when the groomsmen unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities. Feature film adapted from the V/H/S (2012) anthology segment 'Amateur Night.'

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, military
CountryCanada
Duration01:49

In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountrySpain
Duration01:32

    A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA, China, Japan
    Duration01:56

    Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    20 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 expedition.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

      When a group of college students take part in a clinical drug trial, an unexpected side effect of the experimental medicine gives them terrifying visions of their own deaths...which begin to come true. As they scramble to escape their fate, they discover that the killer is among them and shares their ability to see the future - only he seems to be one step ahead of their efforts to survive.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Serbia, Canada
      Duration01:27

      When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Canada, Mexico
      Duration01:36

      Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:15

      An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:32

      A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:42

      A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:41

      Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan reimagine and contemporize the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA

      A group of young Miskatonic University scientists invent a time machine, only to learn that they are being manipulated by mysterious, unseen forces from another dimension.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:34

      A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Not long after John Chambers and his family arrive at their new home in a small country town of Pennsylvania, John begins to experience sleep paralysis. Lying there paralyzed, trapped within his own nightmare, other-worldly beings visit John. They are entities which exist in the darkest shadows of the night and can only be seen out of the corner of one's eye. These encounters begin to haunt John, transforming to complete terror as he discovers the entities' sole purpose... the abduction of his seven year old son. In the end, John will uncover the town's horrific secret, a portal on his land, and make one last attempt to save his son before the shadow people permanently take him away to their world.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
      CountryFinland, United Kingdom, Canada

      New Mexico, present day. Brian and Lukas are off to the desert to join a kegger party and to celebrate Lukas’ victory in a motocross competition. His winning prize includes meeting The Deathinator, the biggest action star in the world. The party gets started under the hot desert sun, but Brian isn’t in the mood, so he wanders off and is soon joined by his friend, Lukas. They discover something strange in the desert which leads them into a secret military laboratory, where they discover the disturbing truth of what the government has been doing. Secret experiments on ants and spiders using DNA found in a meteorite which fell to Earth in 1951 has given birth to mutated giant ants which have overrun the facility. Now, it's up to Brian and Lukas to save the world from a giant ant invasion!

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

      When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      A newly reunited young couple's drive through the Pacific Northwest turns into a nightmare as they are forced to face nature, unsavory locals, and a monstrous creature, known to the Native Americans as Oh-Mah.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden
      Duration01:34

      40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.




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