Movies like Get Out

Why it's similar — Pascal Laugier's Incident in a Ghostland runs the same trap-house structural pleasure as Get Out — a house whose normal interior is the front for a family business the visiting strangers are not, on arrival, equipped to read. The two films are paired by the way each refuses to give its captives an outside-rescue and forces them to assemble their escape from the materials the house has put within reach.

Why it's similar — Matt Sobel's English-language remake of the Austrian original works the same controlled chamber-piece register Peele builds in the Armitage house: a household whose maternal authority is the actual horror, with the script refusing to confirm the children's suspicions until the structural reveal lands too late for anyone in the building to act on it. Both films treat domestic interiors as the genre's most efficient set.

Why it's similar — Darren Lynn Bousman's remake puts a houseguest scenario at the centre of a family-of-strangers home-invasion plot — the same structural inversion Peele runs by letting his strangers in through the front door as in-laws. Both films are interested in what happens when the genre's standard outside-the-house threat is reimagined as the people who already live in it.

Why it's similar — Joey Stewart's high-school revenge thriller shares Get Out's structural argument that the actual horror is the dinner-party invitation. Both films stage a violence whose participants have been politely asked, in advance, to attend, and whose victims have spent the previous afternoon convincing themselves the invitation was sincere.

Why it's similar — Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour's Amazon-Blumhouse release is the closest contemporary cousin to Peele's hypnosis-and-identity premise: a Black protagonist whose treatment for a memory disorder turns out to be the cover for a procedure conducted on his body without his consent. The films share their interest in the specific horror of a clinical setting weaponised against its patient.