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Movies like A Story of Derry (2026)
7 films to watch after A Story of Derry, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.
Hundreds of years before Pennywise, three youngsters venture into the Western Wood...where they encounter a terrifying ancient spirit.
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1The Little Stranger (2018)
Fit 65%Shares Mystery and Horror with A Story of Derry.
In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?
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2Dark Water (2002)
Fit 61%Shares Horror and Mystery with A Story of Derry.
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
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3Starve Acre (2024)
Fit 60%Shares Horror and Drama with A Story of Derry.
When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.
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4Fear Street: 1978 (2021)
Fit 55%Shares Horror, Mystery and Drama with A Story of Derry.
In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
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5Bird Box (2018)
Fit 48%Shares Horror and Drama with A Story of Derry.
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
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6Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
Fit 47%Shares Drama and Horror with A Story of Derry.
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
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7Manhunt (2008)
Fit 39%Shares Horror with A Story of Derry.
Its the summer of 1974. Four friends have planned a recreational weekend hiking and camping in the forest. At a remote truck stop they pick up an anxious hitchhiker who only after a short ride demands they stop the vehicle. She is clearly frightened of somethingbut what she cant begin to describe in her carsick terror. Suddenly the group are ambushed and left unconscious.
