Movies like Pathology (2008)
The best movies like Pathology (2008) are Vacancy 2: The First Cut (2008), Saw V (2008) and The Clinic (2010). If Pathology hooked you with its crime and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedRed Dragon (2002)7.1/10 from 4,950 votes
- NewestMidnighters (2018)Released 2018
Vacancy 2: The First Cut (2008)
Three young people check into the Meadow View Inn for a night's rest, fully unaware of the inn's sick-minded employees and their nefarious intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSaw V (2008)
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Clinic (2010)
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight Train (2009)
Two Passengers and the conductor discover that a person has passed away on their Night Train cabin. They come across valuable diamonds on his person, that they decide to keep for themselves...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisDouble Identity (2009)
In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisD-Tox (2002)
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBorderland (2007)
Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dead Girl (2006)
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAutopsy (2008)
Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPanic Button (2011)
Four young people have won a trip with their favorite social network. On board the private plane that took them to New York, they are invited to participate in an in-flight entertainment: a new online gaming experience. Trapped at 30,000 feet, they will play for their lives and those of their families. They will discover the hard way that putting your life online can have dire consequences...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMother's Day (2010)
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom Within (2008)
When the citizens of a small evangelical town systematically begin committing suicide, a young girl struggling to reconcile her Christian upbringing with her desire to experience the outside world finds her faith put to the ultimate test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Deaths of Ian Stone (2008)
Deaths tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadhouse (2004)
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Betrayed (2008)
Kidnappers force a young mother to recover money stolen by her shady husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tortured (2010)
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRed Mist (2008)
A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPoker Night (2014)
When a new detective is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement, he must use the knowledge he learned from some of the best detectives at Poker Night, then match wits against his captor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisBloodwork (2012)
A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisShuttle (2008)
When two friends return from a girls weekend vacation in Mexico, they find themselves stranded at the airport. Trying to get home safely, they board an airport shuttle for the short trip. But once their feet cross the threshold of the shuttle, a night that had started like any other turns terrifying, and the ride home becomes a descent into darkness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisDot.Kill (2005)
Charlie Daines is a morphine-addicted detective on the trail of a psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As he closes in on the killer, Charlie realises that he is to be the final victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Midnighters (2018)
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPsych:9 (2010)
A young woman with a troubled past takes a job at recently closed down hospital. Working the night shift alone she begins to experience a series of unsettling events that lead her to believe that the hospital may be connected to a number of recent murders in the area. To uncover the truth she will have to revisit the past behind the walls of Psych:9.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrain (2008)
After a night of wild partying and missing their train, the group of students is invited to board another which happens to be heading their way. Once on board, members of the team begin to go missing, and their would-be saviors claim to have no idea what could have happened to them... When they discover the truth, it is too late to escape and they must fight for their lives against their captors to put an end to their ride to hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBotched (2007)
Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSaw IV (2007)
Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaw III (2006)
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLike Minds (2006)
A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRed Dragon (2002)
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWould You Rather (2013)
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather" hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Pathology?
The closest matches to Pathology are Vacancy 2: The First Cut (2008), Saw V (2008) and The Clinic (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Pathology?
People who watched Pathology most often go on to Vacancy 2: The First Cut (2008), Saw V (2008) and The Clinic (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Pathology?
Red Dragon (2002), rated 7.1/10 by 4,950 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Pathology?
Midnighters (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Pathology?
Yes: Vacancy 2: The First Cut (2008), Saw V (2008) and The Clinic (2010).
How are movies similar to Pathology chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Pathology, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.