How Many of These Movies Like Outlast Have You Watched?
The Outlast games are one of the best and highest rated in recent years. The creepy game play filled with psychological horror, stealth, and monsters galore, follows a whistleblowing journalist who uncovers a disturbing secret buried deep in the mountains. With a whopping 10/10 Steam rating, Outlast is a must-play for horror gamers. The sequel, released in April 2017, has also racked up the good reviews. If you haven't had time to play, the following movies have a similar theme and will hold you over until you get to play.
10. Asylum Blackout
This 2011 horror flick follows several cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane who get stuck at work during a thunderstorm. Full of excellent atmosphere and bone-chilling suspense, this is one you don't want to miss.
9. Quarantine
This found-footage remake of the Spanish film REC., is a solid horror film. When two news reporters are assigned to follow firefighters, they discover a deadly zombie virus outbreak. Considered one of the better found footage movies, Quarantine is a modern day classic.
8. Devil's Pass
This 2013 Russian films follows a group of students investigating the infamously unsolved Dyatlov Pass incident. The film received mixed reviews from viewers and critics alike. Since horror is so subjective, this one, complete with a twist ending, is worth a watch.
7. The Shrine
This 2010 Canadian film follows Carmen, a work-obsessed journalist who travels to a remote village in Poland to investigate the disappearance and murder of a young man. When she arrives, she finds the villagers have a sinister and evil motive. This is a slow burn with a payoff that is worth the wait.
6. A Cure for Wellness
This 2017 sci-fi/horror venture is a creepy look into the life of a mysterious CEO and even more mysterious rehab center nestled high in the Swiss Alps. When an employee is sent to retrieve the CEO, he finds a creepy castle full of experiments and dark secrets.
5. Hostel
The Eli Roth classic helped usher in the wave of torture porn that dominated horror in the early 2000s. Supposedly based on true events, Hostel tells the story of an underground group of rich psychos who pay to torture and kill unsuspecting backpackers in Europe. The 2006 film was all the rage back in the day and still holds up twelve years later.
4. The Houses October Built
This found footage movie flew under the radar until its Netflix debut. The Houses October Built takes the premise of visiting a haunted house and gives it a creepy, Texas Chainsaw like realism. A perfect movie to get into the Halloween spirit. A follow a crew on a haunted house road trip around the country and find that some haunts are a little too real.
3. Grave Encounters
One of the best found-footage movies created at the height of the craze. Grave Encounters mixes faux documentary and ghost hunting with psychological horror. When the cast of a ghost hunting show explores a former asylum, it ends up being their last episode for a horrifying reason.
2. REC
The original Spanish-language version of Quarantine is overall a better film full of extreme gore and scares. When a news reporter shows up to follow the local fire department, she gets more than she bargained for when she and her crew discovers a zombie virus in an isolated apartment building.
1. Shutter Island
The Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese combination can never go wrong, and it didn't for Shutter Island. This 2010 horror/thriller is by far one of the best movies of the decade. This is one that keeps you interested, entertained, and thinking until the mind-blowing twist at the end.
