Films and TV shows that feel like A Forest by The Cure
A trance-like, relentless chase through darkness after something you can never quite reach, ending in being lost and alone.
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975): Girls vanish into an unknowable landscape, with the same dreamy dread and hypnotic pull toward being lost.
- The Virgin Suicides (2000): Suburban longing and unreachable obsession wrapped in a hazy, melancholic haze.
- Donnie Darko (2001): Early-80s alienation, post-punk soundtrack and a teenager chased by something in the dark.
- Stranger Things (2016): 80s kids lost in a dark wood while something stalks them, with a synth-heavy atmosphere.
- Twin Peaks (1990): Woods that hide something sinister, with dreamlike, ominous melancholy.
- Let the Right One In (2008): A lonely child in a cold, snowy suburb, with a quiet and eerie bond with the dark.
- The Witch (2016): The forest edge as an ever-present, menacing force closing in on a isolated family.
- Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988): Bleak, oppressive and cold, a grim world of dread and entrapment that suits the track's chill.
