Movies like The Midnight Man (2016)
The best movies like The Midnight Man (2016) are The Heretics (2017), Day of Reckoning (2017) and Malicious (2018). If The Midnight Man hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedMama (2013)6.3/10 from 4,552 votes
- NewestBodycam (2026)Released 2026
The 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 thisDay of Reckoning (2017)
Some years ago, the world experienced a "day of reckoning" when creatures came up from below and purged humanity of evil. Now, it is happening again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMalicious (2018)
A young college professor and his pregnant wife unwittingly release a malevolent entity with murderous intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHunting Souls (2024)
Hunting Souls is the story of an American couple who are dealing with the hardships of caring for their sick child. They discover that they are being hunted by a demon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Evil Within (2017)
The sadistic tale of a lonely, mentally handicapped boy who befriends his reflection in an antique mirror. This demonic creature orders him to go on a murderous rampage to kill the people he loves most.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIncarnate (2016)
An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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 this5ive Girls (2007)
Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Shrine (2010)
A group of young journalists investigate a cult said to practice human sacrifice, but their ambitious ways may lead them to becoming the cult's next victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hollow Child (2018)
Samantha has lived her whole life in different foster homes. Now living in a small town, she never feels like she quite fits in, even with her own current foster family who might adopt her, or the boy who follows her around doing her classwork. So, it’s perhaps natural that she doesn’t know what to do with a curious tagalong little sister named Olivia. One day, Sam callously ditches Olivia, who wanders off into the woods on her own and disappears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarricade (2012)
A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHaunt (2014)
An introverted teen sparks with his new neighbor, and together the couple begins to explore the haunted house that his family has unknowingly just purchased.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStill/Born (2018)
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child – a supernatural entity that has chosen her child and will stop at nothing to take it from her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBed of the Dead (2016)
Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sandman (2017)
A monster from a little girl's nightmares comes to life and attacks anyone who would harm her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Are Still Here (2015)
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeven in Heaven (2018)
Teenagers Jude and June spend seven minutes in a locked closet and emerge in a hostile and dangerous alternate world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOuija (2014)
A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSinister 2 (2015)
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Darkness (2016)
A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAwait Further Instructions (2018)
A dysfunctional family awake on Christmas morning to discover they’re sealed inside their house by a mysterious black substance. On television, a single line of text reads: “Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions.”
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBodycam (2026)
A call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHosts (2020)
On Christmas Eve, an innocent couple become hosts to a malicious entity. Throughout the night they terrorise a family of five in unimaginably violent and disturbing ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOuija: Origin of Evil (2016)
In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Breach (2022)
John Hawkins is set to retire from his post as police chief of the small town of Lone Crow, that is tucked away in the deep woods of northern Ontario. But following the discovery of a gruesome body with uncanny injuries, he’s pulled into an investigation to solve the horrifying mystery, which evades explanation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMama (2013)
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMalevolent (2018)
A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKnuckleball (2018)
Alone, and targeted on an isolated farm, 12 year old Henry finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of terror, and a dark family legacy, when his secretive grandfather dies suddenly in the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Midnight Man?
The closest matches to The Midnight Man are The Heretics (2017), Day of Reckoning (2017) and Malicious (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Midnight Man?
People who watched The Midnight Man most often go on to The Heretics (2017), Day of Reckoning (2017) and Malicious (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Midnight Man?
Mama (2013), rated 6.3/10 by 4,552 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Midnight Man?
Bodycam (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Midnight Man?
Yes: The Heretics (2017), Day of Reckoning (2017) and Malicious (2018).
How are movies similar to The Midnight Man chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Midnight Man, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.