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10 Best Movies Like The Great Outdoors

If you loved The Great Outdoors, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
What a Carve Up!

What a Carve Up!

1961★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Outdoors for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagi...

#2
Flesh-Eating Mothers

Flesh-Eating Mothers

1988★ 4.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Outdoors for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A venereal disease turns an entire town of two-timing mothers into cannibals!...

#3
Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon

Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon

1977★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Outdoors for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin...

#4
Extracurricular

Extracurricular

2020★ 5.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Outdoors for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Miriam, Derek, Ian, and Jenny are overachieving high school students doing everything by the book. Straight As, sports, yearbook, band, and – when coursework allows – planning and ...

#5
The Philosopher

The Philosopher

1989★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Outdoors for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The obscure philosopher Georg Hermes almost withdrew from the world to concentrate on his studies, especially Heraclitus, having no relationship since his mother's death. When he w...

#6
Devil's Night

Devil's Night

2015★ 4.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Outdoors for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

On the night before Halloween, four high school friends choose to bail on the big costume party in favor of some holiday vandalizing, a choice with dire consequences....