Movies like The Banishing (2021)
The best movies like The Banishing (2021) are They Live in the Grey (2022), The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014). If The Banishing hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Innocents (1961)7.5/10 from 707 votes
- NewestThe Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)Released 2025
They Live in the Grey (2022)
While investigating a child abuse case, Claire discovers that the family is being tormented by a supernatural entity. In order to save the family, she must confront her own fears and use her emerging clairvoyance to stop the malevolent force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long lost daughter, who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar eclipse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOculus (2014)
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEli (2019)
A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow patients.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnd Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of the Fengriffen family. The young bride is victim of terrifying visions and apparitions, threatening her very sanity. A London psychiatrist comes to her help and uncovers the terrible secret that haunts the estate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThings Heard & Seen (2021)
A young woman discovers that both her husband and their new home harbor sinister secrets after they leave Manhattan for small-town life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisInsidious (2011)
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Innocents (1961)
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisThe Witch in the Window (2018)
When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make – she's getting stronger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Woman in Black (1989)
A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInsidious: The Last Key (2018)
Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShock (1977)
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisDelirium (2018)
A man recently released from a mental institute inherits a mansion after his parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe it is haunted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Changeling (1980)
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Haunting (1963)
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLights Out (2016)
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil Next Door (2020)
A dad moves into a new house with his son and girlfriend. When he's out of town working, the son makes a new "friend" next doors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVeronica (2017)
In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe Are Not Alone (2016)
A family, Mateo, Monica and eight year old Sofia, move into a house on the outskirts of Lima. From the first night, the girl is haunted by a terrifying being. These harassments become every time more violent and disturbing, and soon enough will require the presence of a priest, who will try to help without imagining the consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPoltergeist (1982)
The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Stone Tape (1972)
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil (1978)
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like this825 Forest Road (2025)
After a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark history of being haunted by a ghostly woman who drives residents to suicide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNo One Gets Out Alive (2021)
An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou're Not Alone (2020)
After the premature death of her estranged husband, Emma (Winter) regains custody of their young daughter Isla (Jones) and hopes to rebuild their relationship after many years apart. But when an evil entity begins to torment them, mother and daughter are forced to face the inexplicable presence that inhabits the walls of their new home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Unholy (2021)
Alice is a young hearing-impaired girl who, after a supposed visitation from the Virgin Mary, is inexplicably able to hear, speak and heal the sick. As word spreads and people from near and far flock to witness her miracles, a disgraced journalist hoping to revive his career visits the small New England town to investigate. When terrifying events begin to happen all around, he starts to question if these phenomena are the works of the Virgin Mary or something much more sinister.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Banishing?
The closest matches to The Banishing are They Live in the Grey (2022), The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Banishing?
People who watched The Banishing most often go on to They Live in the Grey (2022), The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Banishing?
The Innocents (1961), rated 7.5/10 by 707 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Banishing?
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Banishing?
Yes: They Live in the Grey (2022), The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014).
How are movies similar to The Banishing chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Banishing, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.