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Movies that feel likeThe Conference (2023)

A ragtag group of public sector employees battle not only their own discord but also a bloodthirsty killer during a seemingly innocuous retreat.

If you loved The Conference, the closest films we have are Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020), Extra Ordinary (2019) and Anna and the Apocalypse (2018). All three share The Conference'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 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

🍅 72% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Patrik Eklunddreadunsettlingwittyplayfulrelentless
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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
2020 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%★ 4.9comedy · horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the relentlessness than The Conference

Addicted to technology, a group of teens attends a rehabilitation camp in the forest, but a sinister force there intends to take them offline forever.

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Extra Ordinary
2019 · dir. Mike Ahern
🍅 98%★ 6.4fantasy · comedy · horrorPrime Video

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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Anna and the Apocalypse
2018 · dir. John McPhail
🍅 77%★ 6.1horror · comedy · fantasyRent or buy

Both lean on dread more than on horror

The difference: Takes it somewhere less relentless than The Conference does

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven—at Christmas—forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival. In a desperate race to reach their loved ones, they soon learn that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

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The Menu
2022 · dir. Mark Mylod
🍅 88%★ 7.1comedy · horrorNetflixHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

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Piranha 3D
2010 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 76%★ 5.5comedy · horrorParamount+

Unsettling comedy in both cases

Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.

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🍅 90%★ 7.3horror · comedy

Horror built on wit, twice over

The difference: 75 years apart, and the 1940s show

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

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Ma
2019 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 55%★ 5.6horror · thrillerHuluPeacock

One thread runs through both: slasher

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Conference does

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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Housebound
2014 · dir. Gerard Johnstone
🍅 95%★ 6.7horror · comedy · thrillerPrime Video

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

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The Babysitter
2017 · dir. McG
★ 6.4comedy · horrorNetflix

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.

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Carrie
2013 · dir. Kimberly Peirce
🍅 51%★ 5.8drama · horrorPrime Video

Common ground: revenge

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.7horror

Same instincts, 3 years apart

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

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The Golden Glove
2019 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 54%★ 6.7crime · thriller · horror

A streak of wit through both

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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