Movies like Deathwoods

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   Water Rites

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 99 min · Horror

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   A couple takes a break from their work-a-day lives by spending the summer at a secluded lakefront community. After uncovering the locals' secrets, the couple's idyllic retreat quickly turns into something neither of them can return from.

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   The Nice Ones

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 89 min · Drama · Fantasy · Horror · Science Fiction

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   When Kate joins her boyfriend’s friends at a remote countryside retreat, old wounds resurface as strange lights appear in the sky. As unease grows, members of the group begin to change—becoming unnervingly calm, kind, and “nice.” Dismissed as unstable, Kate struggles to convince the others something is wrong before the force behind it spreads.

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   Satan's Servant

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   2021 · 84 min · Comedy · Horror · Mystery

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   After the mysterious disappearance of their friend, two teenage friends stumble onto a Satanic plot in their small town.

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   It Ends

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 89 min · Horror · Mystery

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   A group of recent grads head out on a late night drive for grub, hoping to enjoy one final hangout before their paths diverge. Instead, they accidentally turn onto a never-ending, two-lane hellscape surrounded by untold horrors and cosmic forces beyond their understanding. Cramped together inside a Jeep Cherokee and with the miles stretching infinitely ahead, they face a choice: embrace their new existence or fight to escape it.

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   She Came from the Woods

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   2023 · 101 min · Horror

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   In 1987, a group of counselors accidentally unleashes a decades' old evil on the last night of summer camp.

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   Florida, Man

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 108 min · Documentary · Drama · Horror

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   Evan, a filmmaker from Mississippi, catches feelings for a gal he meets at a found footage film festival in San Francisco. They decide to make a movie together, exploring the haunted landscapes of Evan’s family history in the swamplands of Florida. Old wounds are reopened and generational trauma reveals itself to be perhaps the scariest part of this attempted mockumentary that ends up being a little too real.

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   The Dirty South

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 107 min · Action · Crime · Drama

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   Sue Parker is thrust into a desperate struggle to rescue her family's failing business, teetering on the edge of ruin due to her father's negligence. With the arrival of a charming wanderer, she sees him as their sole hope to help prevent their bar from being seized by the merciless local tycoon.

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   A Fire in the Cold Season

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   2019 · 95 min · Drama · Thriller

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   A whisper among the sprawling forests and mill towns of central Newfoundland. A body found on the side of a river brings together a reclusive fur trapper and a heartsick mother-to-be. Scott is lonely and desperate to give himself meaning. Mona is strong-willed, but frustrated by her fragility. As a reluctant dependence blossoms the pair find themselves wading into violence, answering for the debts of a dead man. Stalked by outlaws, they plan an exit.

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   Tunnel To The Inferno

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   2021 · 110 min · Drama · Fantasy · Horror

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   An experimental film about a group of teens who set up a Christmas party for a close friend. Suddenly things take a violent turn when one of the teens conspires against the group with the help of an ancient dark evil.

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    Mudbound

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    2017 · 135 min · Drama

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    In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

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