
Movies that feel likeBetter Watch Out (2017)
If you loved Better Watch Out, the closest films we have are Housebound (2014), Send Help (2026) and Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020). All three share Better Watch Out's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Anna and the Apocalypse (2018).
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If Better Watch Out hit the spot, these will too

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

Both land tension and wit at once

Playful horror, and it commits to that
The difference: Easier on the tension than Better Watch Out

Common ground in both: holiday and christmas horror
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Better Watch Out does

Both are built on the same subject: murder

One thread runs through both: murder
The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Thriller built on dread, twice over
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Comedy with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Tense horror in both cases

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

The same preoccupation in both: christmas

Both keep coming back to the same thing: snow
The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Better Watch Out does
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