Movies like The Offering (2016)
The best movies like The Offering (2016) are Dark Signal (2016), Body Cam (2020) and Observance (2016). If The Offering hooked you with its mystery and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHereditary (2018)7.3/10 from 9,088 votes
- NewestMoon Garden (2023)Released 2023
Dark Signal (2016)
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBody Cam (2020)
As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisObservance (2016)
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDarkness Visible (2019)
London-raised Ronnie returns to his home in India to discover his mother Suleka has died in mysterious circumstances. As he uncovers a series of similar past murders, Ronnie's own inner-darkness come to light.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Last Shift (2014)
Rookie police officer Jessica Loren has been assigned the last shift at a closing police station and must wait for a hazmat crew to collect biomedical evidence. Ordered not to leave the station under any circumstances, Jessica comes to learn that it's more than just an outdated station, it's home to the ultimate embodiment of evil and his devoted bloodthirsty followers. Jessica is left to fend for herself in the Devil's playground.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dead Center (2019)
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Vigil (2020)
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dark Stranger (2016)
Haunted by a terrifying spirit out of her graphic novel, a young artist struggles to overcome her psychosis before it destroys her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The 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 Heretics (2017)
A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDig Two Graves (2014)
A girl's obsession with her brother's disappearance leads her on a nightmarish journey through a small town's Gothic landscape where she is faced with a deadly proposition. How far will she go to save the people she loves?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Dark Song (2016)
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)
Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisMoon Garden (2023)
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother's voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Other Side of the Door (2016)
Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her daughter becomes the focus of terror. She must now protect against the evil that was once her beloved son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSon (2021)
When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJessabelle (2014)
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBroadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)
In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisHereditary (2018)
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDarling (2015)
A young woman slowly goes crazy after taking a job as the caretaker for an ancient New York home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMary Loss of Soul (2015)
After vanishing from her family’s lake house, 15 year-old Mary Solis returns without any memory of the traumatic events she experienced—and without part of her soul. Even while a shocking mystery surrounds her disappearance, and her disembodied soul begins a grim haunting, the Solis family’s biggest fear has yet to be faced. When it’s discovered that two little girls, the same age as Mary’s sister, Sophia, went missing on the lake the very night that Mary disappeared, the stakes are raised. Is Mary suffering from a centuries old condition known as Loss of Soul? Or, is it something more nefarious? After enlisting the help of a Shaman, the Solis family embarks on a journey to the spirit worlds, hunting for a supernatural cure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Malicious (2018)
A young college professor and his pregnant wife unwittingly release a malevolent entity with murderous intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Power (2021)
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift, finding herself in a dark, near empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face both her own traumatic past and deepest fears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemonic (2015)
A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisI'll Take Your Dead (2018)
William has a simple job: he makes dead bodies disappear. His daughter Gloria has become used to rough-looking men dropping off corpses, and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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 thisCover Versions (2018)
On the eve of their biggest gig ever, the members of synth-rock band Starfoxy throw a rager that ends with a fan mysteriously dead in the pool.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Nocebo (2022)
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Rainbow (1989)
Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband, Tom. But Tom isn't dead... yet. And Martha not only knows he will die, she also knows who killed him. And the murderer knows she knows...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Offering?
The closest matches to The Offering are Dark Signal (2016), Body Cam (2020) and Observance (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Offering?
People who watched The Offering most often go on to Dark Signal (2016), Body Cam (2020) and Observance (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Offering?
Hereditary (2018), rated 7.3/10 by 9,088 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Offering?
Moon Garden (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Offering?
Yes: Dark Signal (2016), Body Cam (2020) and Observance (2016).
How are movies similar to The Offering chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Offering, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.