12 Dark Movies Like Barbarian Fans Should Check Out

"Barbarian" looks to be a thrilling, unnerving, and maybe even mind-bending horror movie based on its simple premise and strange trailer. The film follows Tess (Georgina Campbell), who is in a new town for a few days for a job interview. When she arrives at the rental home that she's booked for her stay, she discovers there's already someone staying there. The current tenant is the friendly and good-looking Keith (Bill Skarsgård), who tells Tess she should stay the night there and can take the bedroom with a door that locks.

But of course, because this is a horror movie, things aren't quite so simple. While it's unclear exactly what the evil or danger is that lurks in the house, the trailer seems to imply the possibility of a cult and otherworldly elements. So with a sense of "Barbarian" from the information we have already — that it's a small-scale story about two people in an apartment that turns into something much more terrifying than they ever expected — here are 12 movies that offer similar premises and deliver on the scares. Whether you're looking to prepare for "Barbarian" or you're just in the mood for something spooky and location-based, you're sure to find something that piques your interest.

Elijah Wood has been a horror-lover for a long time, and since 2010, when he founded the production company SpectreVision, he's produced some of the most interesting films in the genre, including "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night," "Color Out of Space," and "Mandy." But all that work producing great movies hasn't kept Wood from acting, and in "Come To Daddy," it's easy to see the actor-producer's love for the genre.

The film follows well-off musician Norval (Wood) who travels to an isolated cabin on the coast of Oregon to visit his estranged father after receiving a letter inviting him. At first, Brian is kind and welcoming, excited to see his son, but as their conversations continue, he becomes cruel and eventually violent.

But that's just the beginning of this strange, spooky, and hilarious horror-thriller-comedy that delves into some dark territory but never does so without a thick layer of humor. 2020's "Come to Daddy" initially seems to be a two-hander centered on characters who barely know each other that expands into something much more exciting in a way that may mirror the small beginning and potentially wild ending of "Barbarian."

"Antichrist" follows a couple, known only as She (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and He (Willem Dafoe), who retreat to a cabin in the woods called Eden after the accidental death of their infant son. He is a therapist, and despite the obvious ethical problems, he decides that he will treat his wife's grief in their isolated cabin, where she can work through her emotions.

But when they arrive, strange things begin to happen: Acorns rain down from the sky, He develops a strange skin condition, and He has visions of animals, some of whom talk to him. He soon discovers that perhaps She is not the victim of circumstance that he had believed and that she instead has malicious plans for them both.

The 2009 Lars von Trier film is often slow-moving and atmospheric, but even in its slowest moments, the atmosphere is so thick with dread that it's never boring. The film's finale has become the stuff of legend for how disturbingly violent it is, but we think it fits the film's strange and psychosexual narrative. It's a movie that's also heavily symbolic, a couple marked only by their genders and their placement in a natural place called "Eden" is clearly interested in something Biblical, and the combination of heady themes and dread-inducing atmosphere makes it one of the best cabin-in-the-woods movies ever made.

While "Barbarian" doesn't take place in a cabin in the woods, the strange nature of the apartment, with its hidden doors and the potential themes of gender violence, make us confident "Antichrist" serves up something fans will enjoy.

The 2020 Irish horror film "Caveat," like "Barbarian," has one hell of a premise: An amnesiac, Isaac (Jonathan French), takes a job caring for a mentally unstable young woman, Olga (Leila Sykes), on a remote island. Isaac's desperate, which is the only reason anyone would take the job — not that Olga seems to be overly difficult to care for, as her uncle who hires Isaac says that her largest problem is that she sometimes goes catatonic, but because to do the job, Isaac is asked to wear a chain.

No, not like a necklace, he's told that he needs to chain himself using a long chain that will allow him to reach most of the rooms in the home but restrict him from going places he shouldn't. But Isaac needs money, so while the chain certainly raises an eyebrow for him, he still accepts the job. The strangeness of the chain soon becomes the least of Isaac's problems, though, as there seem to be strange supernatural events and spirits in the home with him and Olga. And as he attempts to discover exactly what is going on and how he might stop it, Isaac only uncovers more and more disturbing information that places him in greater danger.

It's a spooky, high-concept movie that's locked to a small location with big secrets, something "Barbarian" looks to offer as well.

Most movies about scary places are about other people's homes or places that the protagonists visit for a vacation, but 2020's "The Night House," from upcoming "Hellraiser" reboot director David Bruckner, is about the horror of discovering that there may be more to your own home than you knew. After the death by suicide of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall) begins to experience strange, seemingly supernatural, events and finds floorplans of her home that her husband left behind.

He was an architect who designed their home, so the fact that he had floorplans of the place seems reasonable enough, but upon closer inspection, Beth realizes that the floorplans are reversed — an inversion of their home. Beth investigates exactly what these floorplans are about and why her husband made them, and what she discovers is unexpected and truly horrifying.

"The Night House" mixes a variety of horror subgenres to deliver something excitingly different, and "Barbarian" looks like it will do the same with its simple premise that leads to unexpected places.

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As you can likely guess from the title, the 2014 film "Honeymoon" centers on a new couple's honeymoon. Bea (Rose Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadaway) have escaped from their lives to a cabin her family owns in the Canadian forest near a lake. On one of their early nights at the cabin, Paul wakes up and Bea is missing. He finds her wandering the woods naked and is alarmed, but she says she was just sleepwalking.

As their honeymoon goes on, Bea only begins to act more strangely, practicing conversations with herself and forgetting how to do everyday tasks. And soon the couple begins to see bright lights shining into their cabin at night, but they can't find the source. The confluence of bizarre events makes Paul concerned that something dangerous and supernatural may be going on around them and affecting Bea, but she continues to say that she's fine.

Honeymoon is a wonderful movie that's been thoroughly underrated, and we think anyone who enjoys "Barbarian" is primed to appreciate this strange and disturbing gem.

"The Lodge" takes place largely in, well, a lodge. Months after the death by suicide of her fiancé's ex-wife, Laura (Alicia Silverstone), Grace (Riley Keough) is left alone with his two children in a lodge far from anything else. The idea was for them all, including her fiancé Richard (Richard Armitage), to spend the Christmas holiday together and bond, but when Richard is called to work for a few days, Grace spends the time with the children, elder Aiden (Jaeden Martell) and younger Mia (Lia McHugh).

There's enough tension among the characters to create a palpable thriller, but when the children discover that Grace is the sole survivor of a cult that died by mass suicide, things go from uncomfortable to outright hostile and threatening. And then things begin to wrong for them all, inexplicable things start happening like their belongings disappearing and the date changing mysteriously.

It's an ominous, atmospheric movie with some fascinatingly dark themes, especially as they relate to belief and religion. "The Lodge" seems to move us through a variety of states of consciousness and reality in a way that "Barbarian" promises to do as well. And of course, it's disturbing as can be.

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