Movies like Leatherface (2017)
The best movies like Leatherface (2017) are Alone in the Dark (1982), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and See No Evil 2 (2014). If Leatherface 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 Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)7.3/10 from 4,068 votes
- NewestThe Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026)Released 2026
- Same seriesLeatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Alone in the Dark (1982)
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSee No Evil 2 (2014)
A group of friends pays a late-night visit to the city morgue to surprise Amy on her birthday. But the surprise is on them when the one-eyed corpse of brutal psychopath Jacob Goodnight unexpectedly rises from a cold sub-basement slab, turning their wild party into a terrifying slay-fest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLeatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road where they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his family.
Why it matches: Same series: Texas Chainsaw Massacre · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBereavement (2010)
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim's screams were drowned out by the rural countryside. For five years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan. While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren't quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet's nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Devil's Rejects (2005)
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Collector (2009)
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHostel (2006)
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrayed (2007)
Pat Baker is a small town sheriff. His son, Kurt, is a deranged young man with a dark secret. Sheriff Baker's worst nightmare comes true when Kurt escapes from a psychiatric hospital where he was locked away for the brutal murder of his mother thirteen years earlier. Gary, a hospital security guard, sets out into the woods to stop him, but soon finds himself relentlessly hunted by the deranged psychopath intent on killing him and anyone who crosses his path. Sheriff Baker launches an intense search to find his son, only to discover that his daughter, Sara, and her friends are camping in the same woods where Kurt has escaped. Kurt's psychosis escalates, as does his vengeful killing spree, culminating in a terrifying, climactic confrontation with Kurt, the sheriff and his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026)
Tethered by a frightening conclusion, Maya and the Strangers are locked on an unavoidable, unforgiving collision course — a showdown that proves they’re far from strangers now.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
Why it matches: Same series: Texas Chainsaw Massacre · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Strangers (2008)
After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Bloody Valentine (2009)
Ten years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gearing up for another party.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Strangers: Chapter 2 (2025)
After learning that one of their victims, Maya, is still alive, The Strangers return to finish the job. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, Maya soon finds herself in a brutal fight for survival against psychopaths more than willing to kill anyone who stands in their way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJeepers Creepers (2001)
On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerrifier (2011)
After witnessing a brutal murder on Halloween night, a young woman becomes the next target of a maniacal entity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWrong Turn (2003)
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHush (2016)
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTexas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.
Why it matches: Same series: Texas Chainsaw Massacre · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisI Spit on Your Grave (2010)
A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hills Run Red (2009)
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFriday the 13th (2009)
A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCreep (2004)
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Nightmare (2002)
A deranged female serial killer stalks seven young people whom phone a radio call-in show to discuss their darkest fears and a night-long game of cat-and-mouse is put into motion by the darkly sinister-looking murderess.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHalloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHalloween II (1981)
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her life. The institution proves to be particularly suited to serial killers, however, as Myers cuts, stabs and slashes his way through hospital staff to reach his favorite victim.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrick (2019)
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Leatherface?
The closest matches to Leatherface are Alone in the Dark (1982), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and See No Evil 2 (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Leatherface?
People who watched Leatherface most often go on to Alone in the Dark (1982), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and See No Evil 2 (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Leatherface?
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), rated 7.3/10 by 4,068 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Leatherface?
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Leatherface part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which includes Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013).
Are there English movies like Leatherface?
Yes: Alone in the Dark (1982), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and See No Evil 2 (2014).
How are movies similar to Leatherface chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Leatherface, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.