Movies like The Forest
If The Forest's mix of camping, knife and woods stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Forest's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · Directed by Tobe Hooper · 83 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: slasher, cannibal, family
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · Directed by Marcus Nispel · 98 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: slasher, cannibal, family
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · Directed by Alexandre Aja · 107 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: slasher, cannibal
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone.
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Wrong Turn
2003 · Directed by Rob Schmidt · 84 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: slasher, cannibal
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by…
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Friday the 13th
1980 · Directed by Sean S. Cunningham · 95 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: woods, slasher · From the same decade (1980s)
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
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Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI
1986 · Directed by Tom McLoughlin · 86 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: woods, slasher · From the same decade (1980s)
Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993 · Directed by Henry Selick · 76 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: woods, ghost
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to…
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Grindhouse
2007 · Directed by Quentin Tarantino · 191 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: slasher
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…
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Jeepers Creepers
2001 · Directed by Victor Salva · 90 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: slasher
On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
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Creep
2014 · Directed by Patrick Brice · 82 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: woods
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it.
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Hunter Hunter
2020 · Directed by Shawn Linden · 93 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: woods
A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.
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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · Directed by Daniel Myrick · 81 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: camping
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.