Movies like I Trapped the Devil (2019)
The best movies like I Trapped the Devil (2019) are Secret Santa (2018), The Price We Pay (2023) and Hosts (2020). If I Trapped the Devil hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)6.9/10 from 4,985 votes
- NewestA Creature Was Stirring (2023)Released 2023
Secret Santa (2018)
An unknown assailant spikes a family's Christmas punch with a military-grade drug, leaving them fighting to survive the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
The Price We Pay (2023)
After a pawn shop robbery goes askew, two criminals take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down, but find something much more menacing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 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 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 thisA Creature Was Stirring (2023)
A nurse taking care of her daughter's mysterious affliction struggles to hide her secrets when uninvited strangers take shelter in her house during a lethal blizzard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Retaliators (2022)
An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's brutal murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Nights Before Christmas (2020)
When a series of murders in the run up to Christmas are found to be linked, FBI Special Agent Natalie Parker is tasked with tracking a pair of psychotic serial killers that have based their personas on Santa and Mrs Claus. As Christmas approaches, they slaughter their way through their naughty list, playing a cat and mouse game with the FBI and leaving a trail of bloody bodies in their wake.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Ritual (2017)
A group of university friends reunite for a hiking trip in Sweden, but are stalked by a menacing presence when they're diverted through the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Look Like People (2016)
Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Righteous (2021)
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Home with a View of the Monster (2019)
Dennis and Rita arrive home to a series of mysterious events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Offseason (2022)
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lodge (2020)
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisPod (2015)
A family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisHead Count (2019)
Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone - or something - is among them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Leech (2022)
A devout priest welcomes a struggling couple into his house at Christmas time. What begins as a simple act of kindness quickly becomes the ultimate test of faith once the sanctity of his home is jeopardized.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSun Choke (2015)
Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Wretched (2019)
A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Follows (2015)
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnything for Jackson (2020)
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWho Invited Them (2022)
Adam and Margo's housewarming party goes well enough except there's this one mysterious couple lingering after the other guests have left.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisResolution (2013)
A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sacrifice Game (2023)
Christmas break, 1971. Samantha and Clara, two students who are staying behind for the holidays at their boarding school, must survive the night after the arrival of uninvited visitors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristmas Bloody Christmas (2022)
It's Christmas Eve and Tori just wants to get drunk and party, but when a robotic Santa Claus at a nearby toy store goes haywire and begins a rampant killing spree through her small town, she's forced into a battle for survival.
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 & mystery
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 thisMurder Death Koreatown (2020)
The bizarre found footage from an investigation into a true crime murder. An unemployed man’s curiosity about his neighbor’s murder warps into a conspiratorial obsession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like I Trapped the Devil?
The closest matches to I Trapped the Devil are Secret Santa (2018), The Price We Pay (2023) and Hosts (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after I Trapped the Devil?
People who watched I Trapped the Devil most often go on to Secret Santa (2018), The Price We Pay (2023) and Hosts (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like I Trapped the Devil?
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), rated 6.9/10 by 4,985 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like I Trapped the Devil?
A Creature Was Stirring (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like I Trapped the Devil?
Yes: Secret Santa (2018), The Price We Pay (2023) and Hosts (2020).
How are movies similar to I Trapped the Devil chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside I Trapped the Devil, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.