Movies like The XXXorcist (2006)

The best movies like The XXXorcist (2006) are The Cleansing Hour (2019), The Exorcist (1973) and Saint Catherine (2024). If The XXXorcist 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 ratedThe Exorcist (1973)7.8/10 from 9,035 votes
NewestEvil Dead Burn (2026)Released 2026

The Cleansing Hour (2019)
Two entrepreneurs stage elaborate fake exorcisms on social media until one of their girlfriends becomes possessed by a demon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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The Exorcist (1973)
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Saint Catherine (2024)
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
Now confined to a mental hospital, young Kirsty insists her supposedly dead father is actually stuck in Hell following his wife’s betrayal. Few believe the young woman’s lurid stories aside from the thrill-seeking Dr. Channard. Kirsty is undeterred and, with the help of a fellow patient, heads to Hell for a rescue.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Nightmare Cinema (2018)
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Two Witches (2023)
A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering the most horrific curses.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Hellraiser (1987)
A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Play Dead (2025)
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Evil Dead Burn (2026)
After her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family — descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into creatures that feed on fear, she comes to discover that the vows she took in life survive even in death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Daddy's Head (2024)
A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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The Possession of Michael King (2014)
Michael King asks occultists to summon all evil spirits to prove his point that they do not exist. But something goes wrong and he becomes a danger to everyone.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Hostel: Part II (2007)
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Scars of Dracula (1970)
The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death by Dracula's mistress. But after they discover his blood-drained corpse in Dracula's castle necropolis, the Vampire Lord's lustful vengeance begins.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Mother's Day (2010)
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Saw 3D (2010)
As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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The Evil Dead (1983)
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Ginger Snaps (2000)
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Mirrors (2008)
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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47 Hours to Live (2019)
Two socially awkward teenage girls, are bored one night and turn to the internet for scary stories. They find a game on a creepy website that claims you can use your phone to summon the supernatural...and if you lose the game...you lose your life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Cheat (2023)
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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The Exorcism of God (2022)
An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a secret that’s eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his demon one final time.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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A Closer Walk With Thee (2017)
A quartet of young missionaries establish a small congregation in a rough LA neighborhood, but problems arise when one of the missionaries can’t control his homosexual urges towards their handsome leader.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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The Monk (2022)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Devil's Prism (2025)
Shown entirely from Gabi's perspective, the film follows a thief who joins her friends for a routine heist which finds her in an unsettling encounter with a mysterious object that unleashes a dark entity, taking possession of her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Love and Rage (1978)
The richest merchant in XIX century Sarajevo and his fellow travelers are captured by a group of bandits. In order to learn more about merchant’s riches, the bandits’ leader investigates the group and discovers that merchant’s wife, who cheated on merchant during one of his travels, later – in fear of his vengeance played to be possessed by “rage”. Looking for the cure, the merchant brings his wife to Ahmed Jusuf – former warrior and man of authority. Jusuf advised the merchant to take his wife and move into another region – having an idea on what was the story behind wife’s rage, bat also in an attempt to protect himself from the feelings that have already stifled.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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KTHAI (2023)
What should have been a normal day is interrupted when Damien wakes up to a small wooden box being left at his front door. A box connected to a malevolent spirit that wants Damien dead...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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The Devil's Well (2018)
Karla Marks mysteriously vanishes while conducting a paranormal investigation with her husband. A year after her disappearance, a group of paranormal investigators attempt to uncover the truth about her disappearance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Grace (2014)
A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college freshman trying to deal with campus culture and her outgoing roommate as an evil entity takes over her body and unleashes chaos.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Aval (2017)
Two families have a tough time dealing with a revenge-seeking spirit, which is strangely connected with one of its members
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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The Outing (1987)
A group of high schoolers decide to stay in a natural museum after closing hours, but a newly acquired and mysterious lamp hiding a deadly force will turn the fun into horror.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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What are the best movies like The XXXorcist?

The closest matches to The XXXorcist are The Cleansing Hour (2019), The Exorcist (1973) and Saint Catherine (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after The XXXorcist?

Start with The Cleansing Hour (2019), the closest match to The XXXorcist.

What is the highest-rated movie like The XXXorcist?

The Exorcist (1973), rated 7.8/10 by 9,035 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like The XXXorcist?

Evil Dead Burn (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like The XXXorcist?

Yes: The Cleansing Hour (2019), The Exorcist (1973) and Saint Catherine (2024).

How are movies similar to The XXXorcist chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The XXXorcist, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.