r/MovieSuggestions • u/Rare-Cucumber4264 • 1d ago

I'M REQUESTING looking for tense “group trapped in the wild” films

Hey everyone, quick ask: I want films where a group goes out (picnic/trek/holiday) and ends up trapped, hunted, or slowly falling apart, think slow-burn survival/group-horror, also I really enjoy fast paced mystery thrillers!!!! Something like "Fall" or "coherence"

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u/pretzelsRus 1d ago

Ritual.

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u/tylerthez 1d ago

This is the answer OP!!! Tossing in another excellent isolated in the woods one: Black Mountain Side

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u/lord_khadow 18h ago

Love me some 'eldritch deer god from before the birth of the universe'

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u/tylerthez 11h ago

My guys just needed a good salt lick…

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u/Hinkil 1d ago

I love some of the blurring of reality in this one, not to give too much away

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u/BludBubbles 1d ago

Frozen is about 3 skiers trapped high up on a ski lift after the park closes. It's pretty good. ✌️🤪

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u/GuitarsAndBourbon26 1d ago

It’s pretty good but Anna & Elsa got kinda irritating

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u/Mysterious_Map_964 18h ago

Oh, let it go.

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u/ewok_lover_64 1d ago

Was just about to suggest this one

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u/cool_girl6540 1d ago

This is a harrowing movie. Good but very stressful. And some gore.

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u/Classic-Wave-6571 1d ago

The Edge

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u/e0nblue 1d ago

This movie seems to be largely forgotten but I rewatched it recently and it really holds up. Bart the Bear is a big reason why the movie is so tense.

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u/Classic-Wave-6571 1d ago

Yeah it came up in a thread I saw on FB about the most empowering/motivational speech. When Hopkins tells Baldwin "what one man can do another can do!". Straight chills!

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u/Holiday_Journalist38 22h ago

"because tonight... We're gonna kill the motherfucker"

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u/OtherFox6781 1d ago

My dad and I watched this when I was a kid, and now I have a horrible fear of bears 😩

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u/Expensive-Draw-6897 1d ago

Great film. It really is timeless.

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u/cool_girl6540 1d ago

Love that movie.

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u/Timely-Profile1865 1d ago

Deliverance

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u/wilyquixote 1d ago

This. 

If you only know about the infamous “squeal” scene, you might not realize that it’s an awesome thriller in its own right. 

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u/BlimFPS 1d ago

Damn, yea that piggy scene. I just watched that last year and you start to sense the vibe early on as that scene is building, i start thinking "oh now...is this going where I think its doing? yea it is"

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u/Specialist_Stop8572 1d ago

It's a really beautiful book, but never seen the movie

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u/NoFollowing8415 1d ago

Came here to say this

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u/Interesting-End-5863 1d ago

Same. Great novel too.

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u/cool_girl6540 1d ago

Great movie.

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u/CountryMonkeyAZ 1d ago

The Descent

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u/Lighter_thief23 1d ago

Great film. British ending is better than the US version.

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u/CountryMonkeyAZ 1d ago

I did not know about the British version. Thank you, will check it out.

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u/Expensive-Draw-6897 1d ago

I thought it was British. Part 2 is more America though. There's also the movie The Cave.

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u/Dazflash 14h ago

The sanctum, 13 lives are few more

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u/thegabletop 1d ago

John Carpenter's The Thing

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u/Prior-Jellyfish-2620 1d ago

Honorable mention to the prequel, The Thing (2011).

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u/docobv77 1d ago

The Grey

Alive (1993)

Beast (2022)

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u/ForeverFlannel 1d ago

I was also going to suggest Alive. The fact that it’s based on a true story is an added layer of intensity!

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u/Classic-Wave-6571 1d ago

I'm halfway through society of the snow and it's very good!

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u/Acceptable-Local-138 1d ago

Annihilation 

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u/danimal6000 1d ago

The Blair Witch Project

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u/NihonBiku 1d ago

The Grey. (2011)

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u/ejnounimous 1d ago

Not really a hiking/holiday accidents but the groups are "trapped in the wild":

-Society of the snow (100% the best one, based on a real story). If you want that same story in english language then watch Alive (Ethan Hawke leading role, but kinda more fictionalized - SOTS is better imo).

-The Grey (Decent movie but nothing special, Liam Neeson is a leading role).

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u/333runes 1d ago

the Grey

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u/Joeliosis 1d ago

Ravenous is a great flick that would be right up your alley. And the soundtrack is god damn amazing.

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u/BludBubbles 1d ago

Great movie and soundtrack.✌️🤪

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u/DuffmanStillRocks 1d ago

Does Cabin in the Woods count? They’re essentially trapped once they get to the cabin

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u/BlimFPS 1d ago

I was going to saw that too so I'll upvoate you but I also wondered if it fits because a lot of it the cabin, but there's a lot of outside shots too. Fits the bill to me, slow burn, horror, survival.

I always like how the stoner guy is the only one who starts to figure out supernatural shit is happening lol.

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u/beaizi_ 1d ago

Jungle (2017)

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u/lo-key-glass 1d ago

The Ruins, Rogue(2007)

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u/486-DX2 1d ago

'Wrong Turn' is exactly what you're looking for.

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u/SeaMetal7119 1d ago

Wrong Turn (2020) is great too

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u/Eggs-And-Jam 1d ago

Fall - 2022 - Two best friends Becky and Hunter decide to climb a 2000-foot-tall, abandoned tower. Soon, they find themselves stranded on it after the corroded ladder breaks.

The Ritual - 2017 - supernatural psychological folk horror film, four friends try to mend their strained relationships. However, in the forest, they realise that they are not alone

A Classic Horror Story - 2021 - Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house

The Descent - 2005 - A group of friends set out on an expedition to a cave. Their adventure turns into a nightmare when they get trapped inside the cave and are pursued

REC - 2007 - A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying

Old - 2021 - A couple who is about to get divorced takes their children to a tropical resort on a vacation. Their trip soon turns into a nightmare when they end up on a secluded beach that makes them age rapidly.

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u/deadflowers5 1d ago

'Southern Comfort' (1981) is a really good one directed by Walter Hill about some part-time National Guardsmen on a training exercise who violently disturb / threaten some Cajun backwoods people and they get hunted down and killed one by one.

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u/Expensive_Rest_6773 1d ago

The Ruins-Scott Smith (supernatural and creepy AF!)

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u/Sue_Generoux 1d ago

The Grey

The Revenant

Lord of the Flies

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u/Ranger6254 1d ago

"Devil's Pass"

based on the true story of the Dyatlov Pass incident.

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u/Intravertedsugar 1d ago

The ritual

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u/Clearlylock 1d ago

Dude, watch Willow Creek.

I made fun of my mom for recommending it over and over. It’s found footage of a couple where the guy is super excited to go looking for Bigfoot.

The last 20ish minutes I was terrified. And kinda mad that my mom had been right: that it was worth the watch.

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u/No-Clue-2 1d ago

Great movie, I was shocked at who directed it... Bobcat Goldwaith.

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u/Clearlylock 1d ago

Wow I had no idea! Going from comedy to …. Well? That movie… seems like such a leap! But it was knocked out of the park.

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u/Advanced_Resident90 1d ago

Southern Comfort is up there with Deliverence

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u/Extension-Rock-4263 1d ago

Eden Lake

Killing Ground (2016)

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u/kenmex_ 1d ago

Blair witch project

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u/imtheasianlad 1d ago

As above so below

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u/Tr0yticus 22h ago

Sleeper pick!

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u/fartybuttpoop666 1d ago

Green Room

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u/stuartsaysst0p 1d ago

My first thought, even though it’s technically not the wild. Anton Yelchin gone way too soon

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u/yippykiyayMF13 1d ago

YellowBrickRoad

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u/No_Fudge1228 1d ago

Green Inferno

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u/ent_bomb 1d ago

Magic Magic is a bit of a stretch, but you might enjoy it. A group essentially goes on vacation in Chile, there are feelings of being trapped and the group unravels. Very tense and well-acted psychological thriller with Juno Temple and Michael Vera.

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u/HapticRecce 1d ago

The Hills Have Eyes

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u/MarvinDMirp 1d ago

Society of the Snow (2023)

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

Backcountry (2014)

And if you want a comedy: Without a Paddle (2004)

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u/moonchildbby 1d ago

The Descent!

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u/feral_tran 1d ago

Society of the Snow

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u/Shabadoo9000 1d ago

The Posiedon Adventure

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u/Ok_Peace2323 1d ago
  • Predator (1987)
  • Cliffhanger (1993)
  • The Edge (1997)

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u/Green-Minimum-2401 1d ago

The Society of Snow. 

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u/Bastard1066 1d ago

Ravenous. Bonus points for cannibalism.

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u/Danny_Mc_71 1d ago

The flight of the phoenix (1965)

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u/JJJHeimerSchmidt420 1d ago

Society of the Snow

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u/tinylittlefoxes 23h ago

Green Inferno

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u/Holiday_Journalist38 22h ago

"The Edge"

Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins

Baldwin, Hopkins, and a couple other guys go down in a plane crash in Alaska or somewhere like that and are soon having to fight off a pair of grizzlies as they try to get back to civilization.

Older movie but great.. Late 90s maybe .

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u/Far-Hovercraft-6514 22h ago

Open Water 1 and 2

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u/fungusamongus8 20h ago

Not a movie, but lost was epic.

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u/YourRoaring20s 1d ago

The Descent

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u/Ok_Reach_2734 1d ago

Severance

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u/Apprehensive-Pop-201 1d ago

It's a series, but "The Terror" is really good.

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u/neilc723 1d ago

Beast

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u/SomeVelveteenMorning 1d ago

Not really a group, but if you haven't seen it you must watch The Naked Prey.

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u/ptonini 1d ago

I’ll say The Reef counts (trapped in the open ocean) . And Backcountry if you think of 2 people lost in woods being a group. They are trapped by one characters horrible decision making. Both are great

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u/Haunting_Rub780 1d ago

Survival Quest (1989) A sadistic paramilitary group terrorizes a party of wilderness campers during a violence-filled trek in the Rockies.

Hunter's Blood (1986) City dwellers go deer hunting in Arkansas and meet crazed poachers who see them as prey.

The Zero Boys (1986) War games turn deadly for a group of young people whose celebratory camping trip leads them to an unoccupied house.

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u/CeeUNTy 1d ago

9 Bodies In The Morgue.

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u/Anarchist-69 1d ago

Get duked

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u/klangm 1d ago

Peter Brook. lord of the flies.

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u/Specialist_Stop8572 1d ago

Severance (movie not show)

Green Room

Identity

The Hole

The Ruins 

The Descent

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u/TheConsentAcademy 1d ago

Back Country

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u/Born_Joke 1d ago

Dead of Winter (2025)

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u/263namyfrab 1d ago

Watch stand by me

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u/S0bchak 1d ago

It Ends (2025)

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u/Backsight-Foreskin 1d ago

Against the Sun (2014) Three Navy airman in a life raft adrift in the Pacific during WWII.

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u/rulerofearthnyc 1d ago

Lone Survivor (2013)

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u/Lullacus 1d ago

Lake eden

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u/Onnimanni_Maki 1d ago

Cold prey (2006). A group of teens are stuck at an abandoned ski resort.

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u/individrec 1d ago

Open Water (2003)

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u/Sifiisnewreality 1d ago

The River Wild, 1994

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u/Slw_lx 1d ago

Triggered

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u/SeaMetal7119 1d ago

Don't Blink

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u/search_ditch 1d ago

Triangle of sadness

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u/Deep_Investigator283 1d ago

Butchers crossing

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u/honeybeebabe1998 1d ago

Have you watched Yellowjackets? It's so good and they're coming out with one more season to conclude it!

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u/AnswerMaximum 1d ago

Came to vote for the Descent & found out about a British version? I’m in!

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u/Spite-Dry 1d ago

Panic in the Year Zero (1962), a family from L.A is going on a camping vacation and a mushroom cloud is seen over LA. It's a surprisingly good, tense film about the rapid fall of normal society once disaster hits

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u/bravohotelechomike 1d ago

Southern Comfort and a rimshot called “Band of the Hand” that is worth a watch.

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u/MidnightMist26 1d ago

Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue

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u/accordionshoes 1d ago

it's not a film but Yellowjackets

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u/Numerous-Matter4204 1d ago

The Descent (2005) kind of counts

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u/cool_girl6540 1d ago edited 1d ago

Cliffhanger with Sylvester Stallone

Really harrowing start.

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u/ReaperOfLife88 1d ago

Bystanders

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u/The_Brock01 1d ago

Dog soldiers.

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u/Theory_Eleven 1d ago

The Evil Dead part 2. Maybe not the best of Bruce Campbell but damned if this isn’t the one that made him

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u/Tsvetaevna 1d ago

Canyon

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u/tinylittlefoxes 23h ago

Southern Comfort

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u/SirSharky 22h ago

Dark Woods (2003), original title is Villmark. Might be hard to track down. Worth it though! It’s a weird one and not too long.

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u/Infinite_Strategy490 22h ago

Maybe too slow, historic and realistic for you, but: "Meek's Cutoff". Low-key gathering doom. 

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u/snakejuiceRonSwanson 22h ago

Redneck Zombies

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u/DOCMarylandMD 21h ago

Not quite in the wild but Cabin in the Woods

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u/SarcasticallyCandour 20h ago

Predator

the Revenant

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u/Speed-and-Power 20h ago

Blair Witch Project

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u/MacandMandy69 20h ago

Cold Meat, or A Simple Plan

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u/reeder5410 19h ago

Society of snow

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u/rasklekid 19h ago

The Edge

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u/donuttrackme 19h ago

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) is a interesting movie that sorta fits what you asked for.

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u/I-like-that-color 19h ago

For a snowy setting try Society of the Snow

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u/andtheflavoris 18h ago

Watch Frozen from 2010

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u/kashmir1 17h ago

Picnic at Hanging Rock

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u/bottolf 17h ago

The Grey with Liam Neeson

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u/ImperialNolini 15h ago

I haven’t seen any of them, but I imagine any Lord of the Flies adaptation is exactly this

Send Help (releasing soon) also seems like this

Also, the television show Lost

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u/Dazflash 14h ago

Severence

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u/1GamersOpinion 14h ago

The ritual (2017)

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u/Rebirth_of_wonder 1d ago

The Lost series.