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X sends a film crew to a remote West Texas farm in 1979, where the elderly owners take an unsettling interest in their guests. Grindhouse grit, rural isolation and a knack for mixing horror with dark humor tie these titles to it.
Matched to X (2022), rated 5/5 by the HorroRated team. Our own picks come first, then the closest matches by director, subgenre and mood.
- Pick
Why it fits
- Our pick if you liked X
- Also from Ti West
- A24
- Serial Killer
Streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu
Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother and a husband she didn't choose, and desires the world has no room for.
PickGood Boy
2022 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with X in our reviews
- Slow Burn
- 2020s horror
Streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
Sigrid matches with Christian online and things seem promising. Then she meets his roommate Frank, a grown man who lives entirely as a dog, and the relationship gets considerably harder to explain to her friends.
PickMidsommar
2019 · MovieWhy it fits
- A24
- Slow Burn
- Isolation
Streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu
Dani follows her boyfriend and his friends to a remote Harga commune in Sweden months after a personal tragedy. The midsummer festival they attend becomes increasingly difficult to classify as merely cultural.
Heretic
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- A24
- Slow Burn
- Isolation
Streaming on HBO Max, Hulu, Tubi
Hugh and Felix are visitors to a small Utah bed and breakfast when Mr. Reed produces evidence he claims proves God exists and refuses to let them leave without engaging with it.
Green Room
2016 · MovieWhy it fits
- A24
- Slow Burn
- Isolation
Streaming on Netflix
A broke punk band takes a gig at a backwoods skinhead bar and witnesses a murder in the green room afterward. The owner has a very specific plan for making sure nobody talks.
PickTusk
2014 · MovieWhy it fits
- A24
- Backwoods Horror
Streaming on HBO Max
Wallace Bryton travels to Manitoba to interview a retired seafarer and finds that the host has a very specific creative project in mind for the visit.
PickMen
2022 · MovieWhy it fits
- A24
- Isolation
- 2020s horror
Streaming on HBO Max
Harper retreats to the English countryside after a personal tragedy. The village she's staying near and its surrounding land harbor something specific about masculine hostility.
PickPsycho
1960 · MovieWhy it fits
- Serial Killer
- Slow Burn
- Slasher
Streaming on Netflix, Peacock
Marion Crane stops at an empty motel on the run from her own bad decision, and the manager seems harmless. The house on the hill behind the office is another matter.
PickHereditary
2018 · MovieWhy it fits
- A24
- Slow Burn
Streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu
Annie's mother has just died, and the grief in the Graham household turns out to be the least of what's coming for this family. Something has been arranged for them long before anyone realized it.
PickDon't Move
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- Slow Burn
- Isolation
- 2020s horror
Streaming on Netflix
Sofia is injected with a paralyzing drug and must survive a night in a cabin with the man who abducted her, conscious but unable to move or speak.