Movies like The Maid (2020)
The best movies like The Maid (2020) are Meat Grinder (2009), Home for Rent (2023) and Body (2007). If The Maid hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDeath Whisperer (2023)7.4/10 from 247 votes
- NewestBone Lake (2025)Released 2025
Meat Grinder (2009)
A poverty stricken woman starts a restaurant where she slaughters people and serves up human flesh, cut from her victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHome for Rent (2023)
When her good tenants go bad, a landlord finds herself terrorized by a cult that seemingly has her husband enthralled — and her daughter in its sights.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBody (2007)
A man tries to prove that his nightmares about a girl who screams for help and is then murdered are real, and contain a message reaching out to her murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Whole Truth (2021)
When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArt of the Devil 2 (2005)
A beautiful teacher is wronged by six of her students. Calling on demons and forces of black magic, she extracts an ultra-gruesome retribution against each of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCracked (2022)
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Art of the Devil 3 (2008)
After Ta's mother is poisoned by his father, he finds himself in a dark and dangerous situation among demons when his family uses black magic to bring her back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisComing Soon (2008)
Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange events befall them following the viewing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLaddaland (2011)
A family moves into a neighborhood where they encounter a series of terrifying paranormal events that lead them to the edge of sanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like this4bia (2008)
Four directors create short films based on unique fears involving a lonely woman, a princess's corpse, a haunted camping trip and a cursed manuscript.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 8th Day (2008)
A mysterious story set in a run-down house where an eccentric elderly lady lives alone. One day, a little girl steps inside the house and never comes back. The girl seems to be locked inside the house for 8 days. No one knows what is going on in the house except for a young doctor who witnesses everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
The Swimmers (2014)
After falling pregnant to her boyfriend's best friend, a young woman commits suicide. She returns to haunt her unborn child's father while her friend seeks revenge on the person who drove her to her fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeath Whisperer (2023)
When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAttack 13 (2025)
Bussaba, a volleyball player who enjoyed bullying others, was found dead by hanging in a gym, causing chaos and horror among other team members.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Mae Bia (2015)
Mekhala is a young carefree lady who is wealthy, charming and lives in a large rural house. There is a rumor that any man who has romantic relationship with her will die mysteriously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Shutter (2004)
When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlone (2007)
When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the surviving sister, haunted by Ploy's vengeful ghost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCountdown (2012)
Three Thai teenagers plan the New Year's party of their lives by calling a drug dealer to drop drugs off at their apartment. They have no idea the drug dealer's visit will change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Ghost of Mae Nak (2005)
Mak and Nak are a young couple who have just moved into their first home as a married couple. But the house they own has a history much older than them and spirits who won't rest until they get what they want. And this time, love won't conquer all!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Slice (2009)
A serial killer is on the loose. There have been gruesome murders, with victims being ghastly dismembered and their severed body parts dumped in various locations. As the bodies keep piling up, the police remain in the dark without a single clue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Detention (2019)
In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPee Mak (2013)
Mak's friends just want to protect him, but his wife Nak won't let a small thing like her own death get in the way of true love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPhobia 2 (2009)
An anthology of five macabre short stories about hungry ghosts, comatose brain dead, a group of bright-eyed actors, an unscrupulous car salesman, and careless backpack tourists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNang Nak (1999)
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Goodnight Mommy (2015)
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJigsaw (2017)
Law enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabolical new game that's only just begun.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBone Lake (2025)
A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Children (2008)
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarbarian (2022)
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManiac Cop 2 (1990)
Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Maid?
The closest matches to The Maid are Meat Grinder (2009), Home for Rent (2023) and Body (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Maid?
People who watched The Maid most often go on to Meat Grinder (2009), Home for Rent (2023) and Body (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Maid?
Death Whisperer (2023), rated 7.4/10 by 247 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Maid?
Bone Lake (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to The Maid chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Maid, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.