Movies like Devil Times Five (1974)
The best movies like Devil Times Five (1974) are Bloody Birthday (1981), Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973) and House of Mortal Sin (1976). If Devil Times Five 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 ratedHalloween (1978)7.6/10 from 6,517 votes
- NewestThe Lodge (2020)Released 2020
Bloody 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 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 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 thisCathy's Curse (1977)
A young girl is possessed by the spirit of her dead aunt, who died in a car accident. Soon members of her family begin to mysteriously die off.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisClownhouse (1990)
Three teenage brothers are terrorized by a trio of escaped mental patients disguised as clowns.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightmare (1981)
A drug-treated schizophrenic plagued by horrible nightmares is released from the hospital and goes on a killing spree.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBad Ronald (1974)
When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Abomination (1988)
A mother obsessed with mind-altering televangelism consequently vomits a pulsating growth that slithers down the throat of her son during the night. Upon spewing the parasite, the son is driven by an uncontrollable force to murder and feed corpses to the now-multiple-toothed monsters manifesting throughout the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSatan's Slave (1976)
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her wicked uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even those she thought were dead return to haunt her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDiary of a Madman (1963)
Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMansion of the Doomed (1976)
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Two eccentric fugitives become roommates in Miami to avoid the law, while one dresses in drag as the other's aunt, leading to deception and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Don'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 thisSchizoid (1980)
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown black-clad assailant, he and his daughter both come under suspicion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Unseen (1980)
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Places (1973)
The heir of a mysterious estate must unveil its secrets and discover its treasures before a scheming doctor and his seductive sister can steal what is rightfully his.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Strange Behavior (1981)
When the teenagers in a small Illinois town start getting murdered, the police chief makes a connection to the mysterious scientific experiments being done at the local university and must stop them before his own son is dragged into the deadly scheme.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCriminally Insane (1975)
An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Fiend (1972)
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
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 thisTourist Trap (1979)
After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Attic Expeditions (2001)
Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Ek, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
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 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Visitor (1971)
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHalloween (1978)
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOrphan (2009)
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Devil Times Five?
The closest matches to Devil Times Five are Bloody Birthday (1981), Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973) and House of Mortal Sin (1976). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Devil Times Five?
People who watched Devil Times Five most often go on to Bloody Birthday (1981), Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973) and House of Mortal Sin (1976).
What is the highest-rated movie like Devil Times Five?
Halloween (1978), rated 7.6/10 by 6,517 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Devil Times Five?
The Lodge (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Devil Times Five?
Yes: Bloody Birthday (1981), Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973) and House of Mortal Sin (1976).
How are movies similar to Devil Times Five chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Devil Times Five, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.