The wilderness is not your friend. It’s quiet, sure — until it isn’t. One minute you’re on a peaceful hike, the next you’re knee-deep in cursed soil with a demon in your ear and zero bars on your phone. From haunted sugarcane fields in rural Maharashtra to moss-covered cabins full of ancient evil, horror loves isolation. There’s no Uber out of here, no neighbour with Wi-Fi, and definitely no one coming to save you when things start crawling out of the woods. 

So if you're in the mood for something that'll make you think twice about camping trips, eco-tourism, or even picnics — this list is for you. 

17 Horror Films Set in the Wilderness To Watch On Netflix, Prime Video, JioHotstar And More 

1. Lapachhapi (2017) 
Language: Marathi 
Where to Watch: Zee5 

Pregnant woman. Sugarcane fields. Whispers in the stalks. This folk-horror gem thrives on rural isolation and a sense of inherited evil. 

2. Bramayugam (2024) 
Language: Malayalam 
Where to Watch: SonyLiv 

An eerie period tale set in a forest-shrouded mansion where something ancient lurks beneath the surface. Think The Witch, but in black-and-white Malayalam and infinitely more unsettling. 

3. Asvins (2023) 
Language: Tamil 
Where to Watch: Netflix 

A digital content creator’s worst nightmare — a paranormal investigation in a crumbling forest villa goes wildly off the rails. Folklore meets algorithmic doom. 

4. 9 (2019) 
Language: Malayalam 
Where to Watch: JioHotstar 

A cosmic event isolates a father and son in a Himalayan forest. Sci-fi horror with emotional depth and ghostly paranoia. 

5. Cargo (2017) 
Language: Hindi 
Where to Watch: Netflix 

Okay, technically not set in a forest — more space wilderness than woodland — but the isolation and eerie silences fit the theme. Surreal, understated, and very Indian. 

6. Alone (2020) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Prime Video 

A woman flees her past, only to get hunted in the most nightmarish game of hide and seek through the woods. Minimalist and suffocating. 

7. The Witch (2015) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: YouTube (rent) 

A Puritan family exiled to the forest discovers just how bad farm life can get when Satan lives next door. Bleak, beautiful, and oddly hypnotic. 

8. The Ritual (2017) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Netflix 

Four guys go hiking in Sweden. They take a shortcut. Ancient Norse evil says hello. Brooding, cold, and surprisingly emotional. 

9. It Comes At Night (2017) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Prime Video 

A post-apocalyptic forest refuge turns into a paranoid nightmare. You’ll spend half the film asking “what’s coming?” and the other half questioning your own sanity. 

10. The Green Inferno (2013) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Prime Video 

Activists fly into the Amazon to save a tribe and end up on the dinner menu. Eli Roth’s gore-soaked homage to cannibal cinema is not for the faint of heart — or stomach. 

11. The Descent (2005) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: TBD 

Technically underground but spiritually forest-core. A group of women spelunking in an uncharted cave system encounter creatures who aren’t thrilled about guests. Claustrophobia turned up to 11. 

12. Wrong Turn (2003) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Prime Video (rent) 

Classic backwoods horror where a bunch of attractive people take the absolute worst road trip route possible. Mutants. Traps. Screaming. You know the drill. 

13. The Ruins (2008) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Prime Video (rent) 

American tourists stumble upon a remote temple with some seriously clingy vegetation. Body horror + botany = your new nightmare fuel. 

14. Knock at the Cabin (2023) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: JioHotstar 

M. Night Shyamalan gets biblical in the woods. A family is held hostage by doomsday believers in a remote cabin. Tense, weirdly intimate, and full of existential dread. 

15. Annihilation (2018) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Prime Video (rent) 

A shimmering alien zone swallows part of a forest and mutates everything inside it. What follows is cosmic horror disguised as nature doc. Smart, strange, and deeply unsettling. 

16. Antichrist (2009) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Prime Video 

Lars von Trier’s arthouse horror set in a cabin in the woods where grief, guilt, and grotesque violence collide. A slow, sickly descent into madness. 

17. Blair Witch Project (1999) 
Language: English 
Where to Watch: Prime Video (rent) 

Found footage OG. A group of filmmakers gets lost in a forest and basically loses their minds. Still eerie after all these years — especially if you watch it alone, in the dark, with headphones.