Movies Similar to Don't Open Your Eyes

Hurry Hurry Faster Faster(1965)

Before the Blerta bus and Goodbye Pork Pie's yellow mini hit the road, some friends with more energy than cash dressed up as mad doctors and criminals, and began making films. This freeform short about running late is an early product of varied schemers who were key in the Kiwi film renaissance. Geoff Murphy plays the man in a hurry, and Bruno Lawrence is Dr Brunowski. Warning: final credits not to be trusted.

Un Chien Andalou(1929)

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

When the Howls Find Us(2017)

A young woman and her grandmother seek refuge from a blizzard. But it's not the cold they're running from.

Thousand Year Sleep(2007)

Samantha, Lydia, Isabella, and Lisa. These four young women are about to learn that humanity is just an irrelevant flame burning nowhere in the vastness of space. Their dreams will be shattered and one man will marvel at the evil he has committed.

Don't Look Back(2021)

The plot of the film takes place in a foreign company located in southern Serbia. The warehouse manager enjoys his free weekend, which is interrupted by a warehouse worker who invites him to come to the warehouse in order to have a serious conversation with a new client from London. The manager had no idea what had happened there and what is yet to happen in the warehouse.

I Was a Teenage Werebear(2011)

A repressed gay teen transforms into a beast after being bitten by a hunky classmate.

Within the Woods(1978)

The low budget film starring the young Bruce Campbell that influenced the Evil Dead films.

Echoes(2022)

A group of friends goes hiking in the mountains for the weekend, but when they return to civilization, they notice that the world is not the same.

I Am the Doorway(2017)

A sci-fi horror film based on the story by Stephen King. A first person POV perspective allows the audience to get inside the head of an astronaut trapped in a spaceship, as a strange virus grows inside him, altering his mind. To save himself he must take drastic action.

Level(2017)

Trapped inside a never-ending nightmare, a cat and mouse game plays out between a man and a hellish beast lurking in the shadows.

Good Samaritan(2014)

A young man who videotaped a fatal assault and didn't intervene finds himself haunted by his own guilt and something far more insidious.

Woods(2015)

A struggling writer believes a secret from his past has come back to haunt him. Paranoia and guilt take over as he tries to figure out who or what has been plaguing him with increasingly violent attacks.

Shin Yotsuya Kaidan(1914)

Total Freak(2014)

In this summer camp horror-comedy, a young teen pursues a mean girl and discovers a secret about the lake.

White Rabbit

A girl struggles with a dissociative episode in her bedroom.

Dark Melodies(2025)

After the death of his Father, Frank Holmes seeks help from paranormal investigator Professor Lynn. Together they uncover old truths and battle dangerous foes, little do they know that their time in the dark is only just beginning.

Paid Troi Nol(2018)

Rebeca is keeping quiet about her feelings towards Zac, a boy in the same year as her at school. Rebeca is also hiding a secret about her adoptive parents - they are zombies.

Santa / Claws(1997)

A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.

SIX GUYS(2022)

SIX GUYS is an exploration of horror, grief and the mind and is inspired by works from Junji Ito as well as Charlie Kaufman's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things".

What We Found Out There(2021)

Two friends find more than they bargained for while hiking out in the treacherous wilderness.