Movies like Ghoul (2015)
The best movies like Ghoul (2015) are Apartment 143 (2011), Hangman (2015) and Haunted Changi (2010). If Ghoul hooked you with its thriller and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)6.6/10 from 1,581 votes
- Newest#MissingCouple (2024)Released 2024
Apartment 143 (2011)
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infrared filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group’s attempts to contact the “other side” will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHangman (2015)
Returning from vacation, the Miller family find their home has been broken into. After cleaning up the mess they continue with their lives, shaking off the feeling of being violated. But little do they know the nightmare has just begun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHaunted Changi (2010)
In January of 2010, a group of local filmmakers began exploring the famously haunted Old Changi Hospital in Singapore with terrifying and tragic results. This movie pieces together the original Haunted Changi film crew's footage to tell the full story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Entity (2012)
In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisUndocumented (2010)
A documentary film crew runs afoul of sadistic radicals when they follow illegal immigrants sneaking over the U.S. border.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Inner Demons (2014)
INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSavageland (2015)
When a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSanatorium (2013)
On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they may just get their answer the hard way when members of the team mysteriously disappear, leaving behind unnerving evidence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHollows Grove (2014)
A young filmmaker documents his ghost-hunting, reality show friends as their routine investigation of an abandoned orphanage turns into a nightmare from which they can't escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFound Footage 3D (2016)
A group of filmmakers sets out to make the first 3D found footage horror movie, but find themselves IN the first 3D found footage horror movie when the evil entity from their film escapes into their behind-the-scenes footage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLong Pigs (2007)
Two desperate filmmakers began a documentary about a cannibalistic serial killer. What follows is their actual footage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
They're Watching (2016)
An American TV crew gets trapped in a centuries-old web of revenge, horror, and blood, when their home improvement show is attacked by angry Eastern European villagers out to kill the show's star.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfflicted (2014)
Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChernobyl Diaries (2012)
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide' who, ignoring warnings, takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but now a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDigging Up the Marrow (2015)
A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like this21 Days (2014)
Three filmmakers embark on a paranormal challenge by barricading themselves in a house so haunted, no one has been able to live in for more than 21 days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
I Blame Society (2020)
A struggling filmmaker senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film and committing the perfect murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
#MissingCouple (2024)
A real #vanlife couple were on an adventure to renovate an abandoned farm in middle-of-nowhere Mississippi. Cameras blazing, they chronicled their project on social media. But the farm was full of disturbing surprises, especially at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Houses October Built (2014)
Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisJeruzalem (2016)
When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dark Tapes (2017)
A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Possession of Michael King (2014)
Michael King asks occultists to summon all evil spirits to prove his point that they do not exist. But something goes wrong and he becomes a danger to everyone.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEvidence (2013)
Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisApocalyptic (2014)
A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Gags the Clown (2019)
It's been eight days since the clown first showed up in Green Bay, WI. Now, over the course of one night, four different groups of people cross paths with the clown everyone calls "Gags" and his true intentions are finally revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHaunting on Fraternity Row (2018)
A fraternity house throws their big "Winter Luau" party but when fraternity brothers and coeds begin dying horrible deaths they discover an evil entity has taken over the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Appearance (2018)
Mateho, an officer of the Inquisition and rational man of science, visits a remote monastery to investigate a bizarre murder of a monk. And you guessed it: something evil is afoot. But is the terror man-made or the result of witchcraft?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRaised by Wolves (2014)
When a group of friends come across an abandoned house in the barren desert, what follows is a terrifying tale of evil possession causing the friends to slowly turn against each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCreep (2014)
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Ghoul?
The closest matches to Ghoul are Apartment 143 (2011), Hangman (2015) and Haunted Changi (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Ghoul?
People who watched Ghoul most often go on to Apartment 143 (2011), Hangman (2015) and Haunted Changi (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like Ghoul?
The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), rated 6.6/10 by 1,581 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Ghoul?
#MissingCouple (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Ghoul?
Yes: Apartment 143 (2011), Hangman (2015) and Haunted Changi (2010).
How are movies similar to Ghoul chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Ghoul, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.