The match
The Babadook
2014Australia★ 6.5subtitled
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
Your matches
Hereditary, but for the grief that drives everything
2 foreign films carry this hook with the same weight as Hereditary. All confirmed English subtitles or dubbing.
If you want a second one
The Orphanage
2007Spain★ 7.2subtitled
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
See 2 more good (not elite) matches
These are real matches, confirmed English availability and all — just not as strong an overlap as the picks above.
Talk to Me
2022Australia★ 7.1subtitled
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
Onibaba
1964Japan★ 7.7subtitled
While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.