Taste-matched follow-ups
If you want more slow-dread dread, small-town rot, and family-bond terror, begin with the strongest matches and keep going.
Closest matches first, then broader nearby picks.
Why this fits: If you liked IT: Welcome to Derry for how a small-town community’s social rules turn intimate relationships into a pressure cooker of dread, The Hunting Wives delivers the same slow-burn unraveling with seductive, unsettling domestic stakes in rural East Texas.
Why this fits: For the way IT: Welcome to Derry uses a close-knit setting to make secrets feel inevitable and harm feel enabled by everyday proximity, Under Salt Marsh brings that same suffocating small-town suspicion through a bleak British crime atmosphere and a charged student-teacher dynamic.
Why this fits: If IT: Welcome to Derry appealed to you for its slow dread and the sense that something impossible is arriving right as ordinary life starts to fracture, Alien: Earth shifts the threat into near-future survival horror where the terror is grounded, claustrophobic, and emotionally outmatched.
A nearby match from the broader catalog.
A nearby match from the broader catalog.
A nearby match from the broader catalog.
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