Still Creeped Out by The Autopsy of Jane Doe? Stream These Next.

Did you just finish watching The Autopsy of Jane Doe and immediately open a Google search tab to figure out what that wild ending actually meant? You are definitely not alone.

When people search online right after the credits roll, they are usually looking for straight answers to three big questions: Who was Jane Doe? Why were her internal organs so messed up? And what was up with that creepy radio song at the end?

Here is the breakdown of what actually happened. The whole mystery connects back to the Salem Witch Trials in 1693. But the twist is that Jane Doe wasn’t originally a witch. She was just an innocent girl. Back then, the puritans were so paranoid that they brutally tortured her using things like jimsonweed to paralyze her, cutting out her tongue, and stabbing her internally.

The movie’s theory is that by inflicting all that crazy, horrific trauma on an innocent person, the puritans accidentally created the exact monster they were afraid of. Jane Doe became a living voodoo doll. Her brain is still active, and her body looks perfect on the outside because she physically forces her victims to feel her internal pain so she can heal. Every hallucination, the dying cat, and the creepy radio song “Open Up Your Heart” were all illusions she created to trap the father and son. In the end, she didn’t just escape—she was completely healed by their deaths and is now on her way to a new city to start the cycle all over again.

If that creepy, locked-in-a-basement mystery left you wanting more scary stories based around a dissection table, you can stop scrolling through Netflix. Here are three awesome horror stories you should put Next Up on your watchlist tonight:

1. The Disappearance: The Body (El Cuerpo, 2012)

• The Premise: A mysterious woman’s corpse completely vanishes from a morgue right before the doctors can start her autopsy. The lead detective locks down the entire building, trapping the main suspect—the woman’s husband—inside for a single, rainy night of intense mind games to find out what happened.
• Why It’s Next Up: Just like Jane Doe, this movie turns a dark, locked-down morgue into a total pressure cooker. It focuses on a smart script and plot twists instead of cheap visual jump scares.

2. Talking to the Dead: The Nightshifter (Morto Não Fala, 2018)

• The Premise: A guy works the night shift in a busy, creepy morgue and hides a terrifying secret: he can actually talk to the dead bodies on his table. But when one of the corpses tells him a dark secret about his own family, he uses the information, breaks the rules of the dead, and brings a terrible curse down on his life.
• Why It’s Next Up: This is a hidden gem from Brazil that perfectly captures that lonely, spooky feeling of being in an empty autopsy room at 3:00 AM with a really cool supernatural twist.

3. The Alien Anatomy: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities: “The Autopsy” (2022)

• The Premise: This is a movie-length episode inside a Netflix horror series, but it plays like its own standalone film. It follows an old, sick doctor who is called into a small town to examine a group of miners who died in a bizarre explosion. Working totally alone at night, he cuts into the bodies and realizes a strange, alien parasite is hiding inside the flesh.
• Why It’s Next Up: The visual style and slow, creepy vibe of this episode are the closest thing you will ever find to The Autopsy of Jane Doe. It is super gross, smart, and deeply unsettling.