Movies like The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre (2025)
The best movies like The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre (2025) are Pilgrim (2019), Play Dead (2025) and Lowlifes (2024). If The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPsycho Killer (2026)6.7/10 from 273 votes
- NewestHuman Hibachi 3: The Last Supper (2026)Released 2026
Pilgrim (2019)
In an attempt to remind her family of their privilege and help them bond, Ms. Anna Barker invites Pilgrim reenactors to stay with them over Thanksgiving. When the “actors” refuse to break character, the Barker family learns that there is such a thing as too much gratitude.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPlay Dead (2025)
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLowlifes (2024)
The survival instincts of a road-tripping family are put to the test when they have no other choice but to stay the night at a remote homestead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Nun's Curse (2020)
A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYear 10 (2024)
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRiver of Blood (2024)
Four kayakers take the wrong river into a jungle inhabited by a tribe of merciless cannibals.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSilent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAzrael (2024)
In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Devil Comes at Night (2023)
A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Mortal Sin (1976)
A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Harvest (2023)
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Midnight Meat Train (2008)
A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Children (2008)
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPsycho Killer (2026)
Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have imagined.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRace with the Devil (1975)
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKill List (2011)
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpell (2020)
A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the ancient remedies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaddy's Little Girl (2014)
After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisResurrection (1999)
A jaded homicide detective has been put on the case of a ruthless killer in the city of Chicago, who leaves a trail of horribly mutilated and dismembered corpses along with perversely ironic biblical quotes.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBed Rest (2023)
After struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers becomes pregnant and moves into a new home with her husband. She's ordered to mandatory bed rest, and begins seeing ghostly happenings throughout the house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisINTRUDr (2023)
In a near-future world where petty thieves use the dark web to coordinate robberies, a destitute burglar is confronted with a malevolent presence in an apartment she found online.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Night of the Groping Dead (2001)
After discovering that Misty has a magic stone called the "The Crack of Dawn", Queen Zombie Ruby sends her army of zombies to get it, get her, grope her and turn her into a zombie too.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Cannibal Girls (1973)
A young couple spend the night in a restaurant, only to find out that it is haunted by three dead women who hunger for human flesh.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStudio 666 (2022)
Legendary rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThanksKilling (2008)
An evil, fowl-mouthed turkey carves up college students on Thanksgiving break.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHuman Hibachi 3: The Last Supper (2026)
A man who suffers from hyper-religiosity, leads a cult of devout followers to partake in a "last supper" where sacrificed humans are the main course.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Hippocampus M 21th (2014)
Apartment 37413 Once a week three crazy brothers meet to relive their childhood disorder eating human raw organs and living a sadomasochistic rapport/intercourse... Apartment 28513 The torture of Barbie. A man enjoys torturing and scarring Barbie, but one day he'll decide to do it with real women... Apartment 13396 A painter uses his blood and his muse's faces to prepare the perfect colors for his masterpiece... Apartment 1932301 A woman is looking for a way to becomes excited and she'll discover it touching/with the contact of insects and cockroaches... Apartment 121197 A self-destructive necromancer conserves the mummified corpse of his husband and every night she has sex with it... Apartment 7428M An erotomaniac obsessed by a clown who is in his house blowing up balloons and exploding it.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Gore Positive (2021)
Gore Positive is a film that explores different forms of love, both those related to our inner self-care (literally) and those linked to marital love to the extreme. The short film tells the story (without establishing any dialogue) of a woman (Cannibal) who, one day, waking up, finds her husband (Corpse) dead, probably after trying to eat some piece of his own body. Compassionate with the living intentions of his spouse, Cannibal decides to show his love in the only way possible at that moment.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Cannibal Campout (1988)
Four teenagers on an outing in the woods are attacked by a trio of mutant cannibals.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Mad Butcher (1971)
After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. As friends and relatives start asking questions about her disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher's display case.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre?
The closest matches to The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre are Pilgrim (2019), Play Dead (2025) and Lowlifes (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre?
Start with Pilgrim (2019), the closest match to The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre?
Psycho Killer (2026), rated 6.7/10 by 273 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre?
Human Hibachi 3: The Last Supper (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre?
Yes: Pilgrim (2019), Play Dead (2025) and Lowlifes (2024).
How are movies similar to The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Priest: Thanksgiving Massacre, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.