Movies like Scream at the Devil (2015)
The best movies like Scream at the Devil (2015) are The Black String (2018), Horror House (2008) and The Canal (2014). If Scream at the Devil 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 ratedHush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)7.3/10 from 297 votes
- NewestBone Lake (2025)Released 2025
The Black String (2018)
When a suburban slacker has a reckless encounter with a mysterious woman, his life begins to unravel in horrific fashion. His friends and family believe he's losing his mind, but he's convinced something far more sinister is taking place.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorror House (2008)
Best pals and struggling actresses Chloe and Jazz accept roles in a unscripted horror flick set in a creepy, abandoned house but soon realize that the deranged director's plans include shooting some bona fide murders. As their fellow cast members begin to disappear, Chloe and Jazz know they must escape from the house before cameras roll on the snuff film's final scenes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
The Canal (2014)
A man who suspects his wife is cheating on him begins having nightmarish visions of an evil presence that he believes inhabits his house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Other Mother (2017)
A divorcee is surprised to learn her ex-husband has suddenly remarried a much younger woman; and even more surprised to discover her dark and treacherous past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Havenhurst (2016)
A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Unborn (2009)
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Haunted (2018)
In a rambling, isolated house, Emily’s first night-shift as carer to an elderly dementia patient turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit and uncovers the house's dark secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhost House (2017)
A young couple go on an adventurous vacation to Thailand only to find themselves haunted by a malevolent spirit after naively disrespecting a Ghost House.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLovely Molly (2011)
A supernatural presence menaces a newlywed couple after they move into the wife's long-abandoned childhood home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeadly Delusion (2018)
Hoping for a fresh start, Julia moves to Los Angeles with her boyfriend. After settling into a fancy new home, it seems her demons have come back to haunt her when mysterious things begin to happen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
100 Feet (2008)
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMine Games (2012)
A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPickman's Muse (2010)
An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Diabolical (2015)
When a single mother and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence in their quiet suburban home, she turns to her scientist boyfriend to take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightened to face.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sinister Surrogate (2018)
Josh and Danielle have found the perfect surrogate, Kailee, to bear their child. But when Kailee gives birth to a beautiful baby girl, the happy couple learns how deep and dark a mother's love can go. But is it really Kailee whom they need to fear, or is she just a pawn in someone else's game? Someone who will stop at nothing to take what she views as hers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Darker Than Night (2014)
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHusk (2011)
A group of friends stranded near a desolate cornfield find shelter in an old farmhouse, though they soon discover the dwelling is the center of a supernatural ritual.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrimal (2010)
Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and mentally regresses to a vicious predatory state. Mel has gone primal. Mel’s lover and friends realise they are the prey as she savagely hunts them down. Before they can escape another one of them starts to regress, posing a hideous choice; kill their friends or be killed by them. Their only hope of survival is through a cave, where Anja learns too late the meaning of the ancient rock art they came to study.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPortal (2019)
When an ambitious ghost hunter performs a risky ritual, opening a portal to "the other side", he and his team quickly find themselves way in over their heads in a fight for survival against an ancient demonic force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Don't Look Away (2017)
When a teenage girl tells her father about a mysterious figure staring at her, all her father can say is: "DON'T LOOK AWAY".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSolstice (2008)
While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisGoodnight Mommy (2022)
When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBone Lake (2025)
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBarbarian (2022)
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor X (1932)
A wisecracking reporter investigates the cannibalistic 'Moon Killer' murders tied to a medical academy, culminating in a chilling reenactment experiment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJigsaw (2017)
Law enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabolical new game that's only just begun.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGod Is a Bullet (2023)
Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Infernal Machine (2022)
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he encounters leads to an emotional roller-coaster ride full of fear and danger, where things are not always as clear as they seem to be, and where past deeds can have dire consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Light (2019)
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Scream at the Devil?
The closest matches to Scream at the Devil are The Black String (2018), Horror House (2008) and The Canal (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Scream at the Devil?
People who watched Scream at the Devil most often go on to The Black String (2018), Horror House (2008) and The Canal (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Scream at the Devil?
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), rated 7.3/10 by 297 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Scream at the Devil?
Bone Lake (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Scream at the Devil?
Yes: The Black String (2018), Horror House (2008) and The Canal (2014).
How are movies similar to Scream at the Devil chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Scream at the Devil, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.