15 Movies Like Shocking Dark
Loved Shocking Dark? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Madness
An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

The Holy Boy
A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Lola's Secret
Young man has his dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she also has a secret that leads to trouble.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Cannibal Holocaust
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

White Cannibal Queen
A man is on safari in the jungle with his wife and daughter when the wife gets eaten and the daughter is captured by cannibals. Several years later he goes back to see if his daughter is still alive.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Black Velvet
Crystal, a wealthy, scorned woman living in a massive Egyptian palace with her daughter Magda, finds commiseration in a dried-up Hollywood expat who surrounds himself with singing children.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Hollow Man
Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shocking Dark.

Stage Fright
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Africa Blood and Guts
A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only political; there is also extensive footage of hunters and poachers slaughtering different types of wild animals.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Play Motel
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

What the Peeper Saw
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub accident.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Convent of Sinners
Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, are jealous and angry, they want Susanna for themselves, and accuse her of being possessed by the Devil.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.

Planet Terror
Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Shocking Dark.

Cannibal Ferox
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Shocking Dark.