Movies that feel likeOther Mommy (2026)

Name: Other Mommy
Director: Rob Savage
Genre: horror
Released: 2026

Young Bela forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home that looks uncannily like her own mother, drawing her into a terrifying and increasingly dark world.

If you loved Other Mommy, the closest films we have are Incantation (2022), Veronica (2017) and The Eye (2002). All three share Other Mommy'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 White Zombie (1932).

★ 5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rob Savagedread unsettling

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Incantation

2022 · dir. Kevin Ko

🍅 79%★ 6.3horrorNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural horror

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

Veronica

2017 · dir. Paco Plaza

🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Both are working the same pair: supernatural, family

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

The Eye

2002 · dir. Oxide Pang

🍅 63%★ 6.6horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: 24 years apart, and the 2000s show

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

Mama

2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti

🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

Common ground in both: haunted house and mothers and daughters

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

White Zombie

1932 · dir. Victor Halperin

🍅 77%★ 6.2horrorPrime Video

Both lean on dread more than on horror

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

Ouija: Origin of Evil

2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan

🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Common ground: supernatural

In 1967 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.

Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest

2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky

★ 4.7horror

Unsettling horror in both cases

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

Insidious: Out of the Further

2026 · dir. Jacob Chase

🍅 57%★ 6.2horror · thrillerRent or buy

One thread runs through both: evil spirit

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Other Mommy does

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

Sinister 2

2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy

🍅 14%★ 5.3horrorPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: haunted house

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

Death Whisperer

2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha

★ 5.9horror · thrillerNetflix

Horror built on dread, twice over

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

Poltergeist

2015 · dir. Gil Kenan

🍅 29%★ 4.9horrorHulu

Both sit in the same unsettling register

A family's 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.