Moderately so — Mudborn mixes scares with other modes. As a supernatural film, it scored 5.5/10 for fear, 5.5/10 for atmosphere, and 5.1/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 2 ratings.

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Films similar to Mudborn on Watch Darkly include The Descent (2005), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Jeepers Creepers (2001) — selected by cosine similarity on the curator scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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Mudborn

2026 · NR · 1h 51m · Mandarin

Hsu-Chuan, who works at a game company, accidentally brings home a broken clay doll from a haunted house while developing a new horror VR game. Unexpectedly, his pregnant wife, Mu-Hua, a cultural relic restorer, develops an obsession with the doll and relentlessly tries to repair it. As strange things begin to happen in the house, Mu-Hua's condition deteriorates, and Hsu-Chuan, at his wits' end, seeks help from a spiritual medium, Ah-Sheng. Meanwhile, the horrifying secret hidden behind the clay doll begins to surface.

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5.1

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5.1Overall

Fear5.5

Gore5.5

Atmosphere5.5

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