Movies like The Sadist (1963)
The best movies like The Sadist (1963) are Chamber of Horrors (1966), A Bay of Blood (1971) and Exposé (1976). If The Sadist hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)6.9/10 from 355 votes
- NewestThe Shed (2019)Released 2019
Chamber of Horrors (1966)
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
A Bay of Blood (1971)
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExposé (1976)
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTorso (1973)
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFright (1971)
Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Kiss of Her Flesh (1968)
Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and brutally slaying any and every woman who crosses his path. However, this time he might have met his match as his deceased wife's sister, Maria, is hellbent on putting an end to his orgiastic rampage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Don't Go in the House (1979)
As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Bucket of Blood (1959)
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Gore Gore Girls (1972)
A young reporter enlists a top notch private eye to solve the murder of a female stripper at a Chicago nightclub.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFive Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGorilla at Large (1954)
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Centerfold Girls (1974)
Police try to halt a psychotic killer's rampage against women who posed nude in men's magazines.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Violent Midnight (1963)
An axe murderer is loose in a small New England town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBaron Blood (1972)
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Drink Your Blood (1971)
A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy, whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them, tries to get even - with deadly results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Saw What You Did (1965)
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBerserk! (1967)
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCrucible of Terror (1972)
An obsessed sculptor kills a young women to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Psychopath (1966)
Four men involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of World War II are found murdered with tiny dolls beside their corpses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Bluebeard (1972)
Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHouse of Whipcord (1974)
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLady in a Cage (1964)
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCircus of Horrors (1960)
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Shed (2019)
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrip of the Strangler (1958)
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Sadist?
The closest matches to The Sadist are Chamber of Horrors (1966), A Bay of Blood (1971) and Exposé (1976). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Sadist?
People who watched The Sadist most often go on to Chamber of Horrors (1966), A Bay of Blood (1971) and Exposé (1976).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Sadist?
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), rated 6.9/10 by 355 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Sadist?
The Shed (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Sadist?
Yes: Chamber of Horrors (1966), Exposé (1976) and Fright (1971).
How are movies similar to The Sadist chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Sadist, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.