Certain scenes in Can Evrenol's 2015 surrealist horror film "Baskin" were compared to "Begotten". James Quinn's 2017 experimental horror film "Flesh of the Void" was noted by several critics as being similar to Merhige's film in style and narrative. However, Quinn himself stated, in an interview with "Nightmare on Film Street", that he felt his film did not fall into the same category. Certain scenes from Blake Williams' 2018 avant-garde science fiction film "Prototype" were compared to "Begotten" by Glenn Kenny of "The New York Times". Jimmy Joe Roche's 2018 experimental short film, "Skin of Man", was also said to have been influenced by "Begotten".