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10 Best Movies Like Of Unknown Origin

If you loved Of Unknown Origin, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Willard

Willard

1971★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Of Unknown Origin for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he rais...

#2
Cujo

Cujo

1983★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Of Unknown Origin for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town....

#3
The Mist

The Mist

2007★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Of Unknown Origin for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They...

#4
The Serpent and the Rainbow

The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Of Unknown Origin for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle dru...

#5
Mimic

Mimic

1997★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Of Unknown Origin for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secrete...

#6
Wolfen

Wolfen

1981★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Of Unknown Origin for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister conne...

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