Movies like The Killing Kind (1974)
The best movies like The Killing Kind (1974) are Impulse (1974), The Baby (1973) and Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973). If The Killing Kind 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 ratedPsycho (1960)8.4/10 from 11,436 votes
- NewestHer Name Was Christa (2020)Released 2020
Impulse (1974)
A paranoid, leisure-suit-clad conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an attractive widow, her preteen daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Baby (1973)
A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. The problem is, the baby is twenty-one years old.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDaddy's Deadly Darling (1973)
The owner of a roadside diner and his new helper kill people and feed them to pigs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeranged (1974)
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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
Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
Mrs Rosie Forrest, aka 'Auntie Roo', has a holiday tradition of inviting orphans to her mansion for a party. But Roo isn't completely sane; she lost her husband and is obsessed with her deceased daughter, whose corpse she still keeps in the house. When Katy Coombs sneaks into the party with her brother, Christopher, the deranged biddy abducts the young girl with the hopes of replacing her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mafu Cage (1978)
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
I Don't Want to Be Born (1976)
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Demons of the Mind (1972)
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAn Eye for an Eye (1973)
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
All the Kind Strangers (1974)
An LA photographer, driving through backwoods country, spots a young boy walking on the side of the road and offers him a ride home. After reaching the isolated house, he discovers that the boy and his siblings are keeping a woman prisoner as their "mom" and now he is expected to be their "dad"...or else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Frenzy (1972)
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPsycho (1960)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCrawlspace (1986)
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Road Builder (1971)
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there may be more to him than meets the eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
See No Evil (1971)
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Look Now (1973)
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisButcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981)
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPatrick (1978)
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRepulsion (1965)
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEdge of Sanity (1989)
When his experiments into a powerful new anesthetic go hideously awry, respected physician Dr. Jekyll transforms into the hideous Jack Hyde. As his wife Elisabeth passes her time in charitable work, rehabilitating the district's fallen women, Hyde is drawn into an escalating cycle of lust and murder that seems to know no bounds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Birds (1963)
Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHenry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBen (1972)
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPsycho III (1986)
When Maureen Coyle, a suicidal nun who resembles Norman's former victim, Marion Crane, arrives at the motel, all bets are off and "Mother" is less than happy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhite Dog (1982)
Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties.Today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring metaphor and gripping pulp filmmaking. Kristy McNichol stars as a young actress who adopts a lost German shepherd, only to discover through a series of horrifying incidents that the dog has been trained to attack black people, and Paul Winfield plays the animal trainer who tries to cure him. A snarling, uncompromising vision, White Dog is a tragic portrait of the evil done by that most corruptible of all animals; the human being.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beguiled (1971)
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBaxter (1989)
A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHer Name Was Christa (2020)
Stephen is a socially awkward, middle-aged telemarketer and is desperately alone. At the suggestion of a co-worker, he goes out into the night to find a prostitute for "The Girlfriend Experience." He meets Christa, a streetwise call girl who's happy to fulfill his needs, and something unexpected happens. What starts as a business agreement blossoms into true love. But what happens when death enters the picture? How far would you go to keep the one person you've always wanted?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Killing Kind?
The closest matches to The Killing Kind are Impulse (1974), The Baby (1973) and Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Killing Kind?
People who watched The Killing Kind most often go on to Impulse (1974), The Baby (1973) and Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Killing Kind?
Psycho (1960), rated 8.4/10 by 11,436 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Killing Kind?
Her Name Was Christa (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Killing Kind?
Yes: Impulse (1974), The Baby (1973) and Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973).
How are movies similar to The Killing Kind chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Killing Kind, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.