Movies Similar to The Old Hag Syndrome

NightMare(2022)

A woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment’s terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.

Alp(2016)

After a traumatic experience, Chris comes home to confront his past. but soon finds himself prey to a Demon who taunts him through sleep paralysis.

shuteye(2026)

A student researching sleep paralysis slips into a lucid nightmare.

The Nightmare(2015)

Eight people experience sleep paralysis, a condition which leaves them unable to move, speak or react.

Paralyzed(2012)

After confronting her fiancé, Paul, in a cheap motel, Betty discovers the horrifying secret that has kept him from sleeping for days.

Come True(2020)

Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.

Mara(2018)

Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.

Marianne: The Ghost Inside(2011)

The life of Krister has become an unending nightmare, ever since his wife's death. There seems to be no respite for this man, tormented by the errors of his past and held prisoner by a grim daily existence.

The Friend(2022)

A boy kills his friend and is haunted by the memory of him, until one day...

Nyctophobia(2024)

As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ultimately becomes trapped in a time loop of sorts in her “lucid dream” world and encounters her nightmare, Dark Figure, who appears in various forms and shapes as a clown. The time loop pushes her deeper into her lucid dream world, forcing her to reach her subconscious world where she meets her worst nightmare, the original form of Dark Figure.

Dead Awake(2016)

Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who, after the sudden death of her twin sister, is investigating the mysterious deaths of other people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they were suffering from sleep paralysis. When Kate investigates further into the case, she opens herself up to the creature's wrath and soon finds herself and her family suffering from an ancient evil.

Catalina(2016)

Young college student, Catalina (played by Kara Saadet Schwarz), begins to experience extremely disturbing cases of sleep paralysis which may have rooted from an unsolved, brutal death in her family.

Restless(2024)

A miscommunication in an online booking brings together two strangers for a single night. Erin, who suffers from sleep paralysis, and Maddison, who has vicious sleep walking episodes. Conscience or not, Maddison has other horrific plans for Erin's short stay.

Hallowed Be Thy Nightmares(2023)

When a girl who's afraid of the dark gets a visit from a sinister fiend from her nightmares.

Parálisis de El Sueño(2025)

In the Darkness(2021)

A man's life is disrupted when he begins to suffer from sleep paralysis.

Static

A young woman comes face to face with her sleep-paralysis demon, defeating it once and for all.

The Parker Sessions(2021)

A troubled young woman with a disturbing past goes to see a counselor about her night terrors, ones involving a shadowy figure that attempts every night to break into her home.

Void(2022)

A woman struggling to cope with the death of her fiancé begins to suspect she might not be as alone as she thought.

Kanashibara(2007)

In the wake of his girlfriend's death, a man's sense of the real and the illusory world begins to blur when he is visited nightly by hallucinatory representations of his depression in the form of a Succubus.