Movies like The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
The best movies like The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976) are Massacre at Central High (1976), Jennifer (1978) and The House by the Lake (1976). If The Witch Who Came from the Sea hooked you with its drama and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDeep Red (1975)7.7/10 from 1,663 votes
- NewestDeadly Friend (1986)Released 1986
Massacre at Central High (1976)
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student engineers acts of revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisJennifer (1978)
Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The House by the Lake (1976)
Harry is a rich dentist who often brings women up to his rural lakehouse. One weekend, he invites Diane, a former fashion model. On their way to the house, Diane runs a gang of thugs off the road. Humiliated, the thugs track down the couple for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadhouse (1974)
A horror movie star returns to his famous role after spending years in a mental institution, but the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloody Birthday (1981)
In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadhouse (1981)
A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bad Seed (1956)
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSee 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 horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe House That Vanished (1973)
A young model, Valerie, and her petty thief boyfriend witness a murder in a backwoods manor. Valerie escapes, but soon finds herself being stalked by the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeep Red (1975)
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Go to Sleep (1982)
One year after a young girl dies in a car accident, her sister begins seeing visions of her, while the family home is plagued by strange happenings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFear in the Night (1972)
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWerewolf Woman (1976)
A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisExposé (1976)
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDay of the Woman (1978)
A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Mortal Sin (1976)
A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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 drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAssault (1971)
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Night Visitor (1971)
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisDeadly Friend (1986)
When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSexy Sisters (1977)
Edna keeps her younger sister Millie drugged and chained to her bed. The drugs have made Millie a nymphomaniac whose endless supply of men that Edna providers her cannot satisfy her and seeing her sister unsatisfied gets Edna off. But Edna's main plan from all of this is to inherit her deceased parents' fortune which is supposed to all go to Millie on her 21st birthday, so if she can prove Millie insane she will get the fortune. But when one of the men appears to satisfy Millie, Millie discovers the outside world and the two will try to stop Edna's evil plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Driller Killer (1979)
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarrie (1976)
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBuster and Billie (1974)
Dimwitted but sweet high school girl of easy virtue and the most popular boy in the school share an improbable romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
Aimless country girl Bobbie Jo Baker abandons her carhop job to join Wild West outlaw wannabe Lyle Wheeler for an adventure in theft, mayhem, and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with a neighbor Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Witch Who Came from the Sea?
The closest matches to The Witch Who Came from the Sea are Massacre at Central High (1976), Jennifer (1978) and The House by the Lake (1976). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Witch Who Came from the Sea?
People who watched The Witch Who Came from the Sea most often go on to Massacre at Central High (1976), Jennifer (1978) and The House by the Lake (1976).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Witch Who Came from the Sea?
Deep Red (1975), rated 7.7/10 by 1,663 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Witch Who Came from the Sea?
Deadly Friend (1986) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Witch Who Came from the Sea?
Yes: Massacre at Central High (1976), Jennifer (1978) and The House by the Lake (1976).
How are movies similar to The Witch Who Came from the Sea chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Witch Who Came from the Sea, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.