Movies like The Shedding
If The Shedding's mix of teacher, black identity and body horror stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Shedding's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Faculty
1998 · Directed by Robert Rodriguez · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: teacher, body horror
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
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Black Swan
2010 · Directed by Darren Aronofsky · 108 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: body horror, psychological horror
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
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Peeping Tom
1960 · Directed by Michael Powell · 101 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: psychological horror
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them.
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Talk to Me
2023 · Directed by Michael Philippou · 95 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: body horror · From the same decade (2020s)
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
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It Follows
2015 · Directed by David Robert Mitchell · 101 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: psychological horror
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
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The Awakening
2011 · Directed by Nick Murphy · 107 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: teacher
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.