Movies like 7 Saal Baad (1987)
The best movies like 7 Saal Baad (1987) are Trick or Treat (1986), Vicious (2025) and Whisper (2007). If 7 Saal Baad hooked you with its horror and music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMetallica: Through the Never (2013)6.8/10 from 328 votes
- NewestThe Dreadful (2026)Released 2026
- In HindiRaaz (2002)Also in Hindi
Trick or Treat (1986)
Eddie Weinbauer, a metalhead teen who is bullied at school, looks to his heavy metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr, for guidance. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of his unreleased album, which, when played backwards, brings the rocker back to life. As Halloween approaches, Eddie begins to realize that this isn't only rock 'n roll...It's life and death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVicious (2025)
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhisper (2007)
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShades of Desire (2023)
After her twin sister Aubrey goes missing, Jennifer uncovers the scandalous, secret double-life that Aubrey leads - and that has put both of them in danger.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRaaz (2002)
A couple goes for a vacation to the scenic mountains of Ooty to save their crumbling marriage, but the bungalow they are staying at is haunted by a vengeful spirit that holds a secret.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPlay Dead (2022)
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEradication (2022)
When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting them down.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloodline Killer (2024)
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Breath (2024)
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRace with the Devil (1975)
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRipper's Revenge (2023)
One year on from the notorious Ripper murders, London is terrorised once again by a series of brutal killings. When gruesome letters from the Ripper begin landing on his desk, an innocent reporter finds himself drawn into a deadly mystery, threatening the lives of everyone around him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPitfall (2025)
After a young man is separated from his friends in the woods, he falls into a ten-foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through his leg and leaving him trapped. He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMetallica: Through the Never (2013)
Trip, a young roadie for Metallica, is sent on an urgent mission during the band's show. But what seems like a simple assignment turns into a surreal adventure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dreadful (2026)
In medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne's past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious knight and threatens to destroy them all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBloodline (2019)
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead of Winter (1987)
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSomeone's Watching Me! (1978)
A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBooks of Blood (2020)
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStranger in the Woods (2024)
Olivia and her friends go on a vacation. After Olivia nearly drowns with a slit wrist in her bathtub after her fiancé's funeral, her friends suspect that she tried to kill herself, but she believes someone attacked her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisEscape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive... and discovering they've all played the games before.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHo Sakta Hai! (2006)
Mohan is a medical student who lives in the United States. One day, he receives a strange phone call from his grandfather asking him to come back to his native village in India. Once he arrives, he finds out that his brother and sister-in-law have mysteriously disappeared. Moreover, his little cousin Tanaji survived, but is behaving very strangely, he never speaks a word, gets up in the middle of the night, sometimes suddenly turns cold, and mistreats his toys. Mohan tries to solve the mystery, but fails to find a rational explanation for all the creepy things that happen. Everything points in the direction of the caretaker's wife, Parvati, who performs rituals of black magic.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Madhosh (1994)
Much to his disapproval, a wealthy man finds history repeating itself when his daughter falls in love with a poor boy, who also happens to be the son of a past enemy.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both music
Adbhut (2024)
Follows Diana who doesn't believe in ghosts or supernatural power. But when she feels something strange happening on a regular basis, she reaches out to Nawaz for help.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Tahkhana (2001)
Baba puts an evil spirit in Shabnam body and Shabnam kills a village man in the Jungle. When Thakur Mahendra Pratap comes to know about this from his brother Vijay, he takes job of finding that evil. He goes in Jungle and finds Shabnam and brings her to the village and villagers hang her till death. But after sometime Baba comes there and takes Shabnam's body while Karishma and Vijay are going through Jungle. Baba arrests Vijay and by his Kali Shakti he puts Shabnam's soul in Karishma's body by which she kills her mother. Thakur sends Sonam to Mama. Day-by-day villagers find dead bodies in the village and Gullu suspects Karishma. After some years Sonam comes to haveli with Rahul and her mama and at the same time a doctor is murdered by Karishma. Another day Gullu was also killed. Rahul suspect on Baba and they follow Baba. Baba traps them and there they come to know Vijay is alive.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Dafan (2001)
Puja who is a girl who sees things in her dreams before they happen. Thakur Jagir Singh wants to make his house an orphange after he dies but Dharampal is after his property. He kills Thakur Jagir Singh but Puja has witnessed this in her dream and knows who the killer is but she can't find where the murder happened and who was murdered. Puja fiance is a police inspector and goes to investigate Thakur's muder and it is there she sets eyes on Dharampal. When Dharampal finds out that she knows who the murderer is, he and his friends kill her and it is her spirit that takes revenge.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Hide & Seek (2010)
Five former friends are abducted and held in a locked mall by a person dressed as Santa Claus.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Duplicate Jaani Dushman (2003)
The film is about a thakur who kills newlywed brides on their wedding nights but nobody is aware its the thakur. The film is a remake of the 1979 film Jaani Dushman.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like 7 Saal Baad?
The closest matches to 7 Saal Baad are Trick or Treat (1986), Vicious (2025) and Whisper (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after 7 Saal Baad?
Start with Trick or Treat (1986), the closest match to 7 Saal Baad.
What is the highest-rated movie like 7 Saal Baad?
Metallica: Through the Never (2013), rated 6.8/10 by 328 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like 7 Saal Baad?
The Dreadful (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Hindi movies like 7 Saal Baad?
Yes: Raaz (2002), Chudail No. 1 (1999) and Virana (2006).
How are movies similar to 7 Saal Baad chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside 7 Saal Baad, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.