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Movies Like Ghost Lab

If you loved Ghost Lab's Drama and Horror storytelling, these films deliver a similar experience — carefully selected for tone, themes, and emotional depth. Each pick includes where to watch it right now.

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We Go On
5.8

We Go On

2016

Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom takes out an advert offering $30,000 in reward money to the first person who can show him evidence of an angel, a demon, or prove that ghosts exist - anything to prove to him that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates - a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his protective mother, he embarks on an adventure through Los Angeles that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

The Legend of Hell House
6.6

The Legend of Hell House

1973

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

Inhuman Kiss
6.4

Inhuman Kiss

2019

An innocent young woman is the unwitting host to a krasue, a demon who causes havoc in her village as it searches for vengeance at night.

The Discovery
6.3

The Discovery

2017

In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

Smile
6.7

Smile

2022

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

Night Watch
6.2

Night Watch

1973

A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.

Ghost Stories
6.4

Ghost Stories

2018

Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.

Don't Let Go
6.9

Don't Let Go

2019

A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.

More Movies Like Ghost Lab

Containment
6.0

Containment

2015

Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?

The Awakening
6.4

The Awakening

2011

In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

Body Cam
6.2

Body Cam

2020

As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.

The Invisible Man
7.1

The Invisible Man

2020

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

The In Between
7.3

The In Between

2022

After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.

Paranormal Activity
6.0

Paranormal Activity

2007

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

Laddaland
6.4

Laddaland

2011

A family moves into a neighborhood where they encounter a series of terrifying paranormal events that lead them to the edge of sanity.

Death Whisperer 2
6.9

Death Whisperer 2

2024

Three years after his sister's death, Yak relentlessly searches for the dark spirit that killed her in hopes of seeking revenge.

Southbound
5.9

Southbound

2015

The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

Monolith
6.1

Monolith

2023

A desperate young journalist turns to podcasting to salvage her career, but her rush to make headlines leads her to an alien conspiracy.

Grave Encounters
6.3

Grave Encounters

2011

A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.

6 Souls
6.0

6 Souls

2010

A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.

Why These Movies Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with Ghost Lab (2021): Drama and Horror themes, similar narrative structure, and comparable emotional depth. NoBadPicks uses a combination of TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface films most likely to resonate with fans of Ghost Lab.

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