20 best movies like Devil's Tree: Rooted Evil (2018)

List of the best movies like Devil's Tree: Rooted Evil (2018): The Offering, Truth or Dare, Under the Tree, The Bye Bye Man, You Might Be the Killer, Cucuy: The Boogeyman, Escape Room, 5 Souls, Way of the Wicked, Ghastly.

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Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountrySingapore, USA
Duration01:48

When young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister's and must join forces with her sister's husband in order to defeat a demonic entity that is using new technology to complete an ancient mission.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, detective
CountryIceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration01:53

When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, China
Duration02:22

When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam (Fran Kranz) is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert (Alyson Hannigan) to discuss his options.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

When children start disappearing, a rebellious teen under house arrest starts to suspect that a legendary evil, a boogeyman known as the Cucuy, might be responsible.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

Six friends test their intelligence in a game that takes a dark turn.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:19

When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and begins collecting the fifth and final soul, he learns that his pact may have eternally horrifying consequences…

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrethriller, fantasy
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:32

Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving boss, while Hauer plays a man-of-the-cloth who aids the cop on his mission.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:31

After his parents are murdered, Bin is taken into the care of relatives. He begins to act strangely, the new occupants of his house experience horrific nightmares, and a mystery unfolds as a terrible secret is revealed.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

A group of friends download a Siri-like App which, at first, seems like a harmless way to get directions or a restaurant recommendation. But the sinister nature of the App soon reveals itself. The App not only knows each person’s deepest, darkest fears, but is able to manifest these fears into the real world to literally scare the kids to death.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

In Nightscape, an emotionally guarded drifter, Kat (Galesh), crosses paths with a phantom car responsible for a wave of supernatural violence. The drifter must learn to trust again if she is to end a lifetime of bad luck and help her new found companions survive the growing chaos and carnage.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, Romania
Duration01:40

    A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    A bus full of strangers find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from an ancient Gothic tome, bringing six dead serial killers back to life, who proceed to hunt them down one by one.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    When remorseless killer James Bennett escapes from lockdown in a mental hospital, an FBI agent and a U.S. Marshal track the madman to his hometown, where he plans to slay a group of graduate students studying his case. But to catch their prey, the officers must plumb the mysteries of psychology, Greek mythology and more.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA

    A young woman slowly goes crazy after taking a job as the caretaker for an ancient New York home.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:29

    A teen must resort to extreme measures to protect her family from a supernatural entity.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind are cell phone calls made the night she died. To avenge Sandy's death Jake must risk everything and walk a bloody path to find her killer.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they may just get their answer the hard way when members of the team mysteriously disappear, leaving behind unnerving evidence.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA

    Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.

    Markimdb: 3.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA

    A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of some marine life in an inland salt water lake that has been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of a legend.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:08

    With his business in shambles, a mounting criminal record, and a cheating wife, today is the day that Buddy Hutchins snaps.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    Ten years after the events of the original movie, Victor Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and proceeds to kill once more.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?

    Markimdb: 2.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration02:26

    A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:39

    A thief makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are no longer how he expected.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Romania, USA
    Duration02:54

    When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    Fifteen years after conjuring an imaginary phantom known as Mercy Black, a repentant woman returns to her hometown to live with her sister and young nephew. But as Mercy continues to haunt her and the death count rises, she must face her deepest terror and discover the truth of her past before Mercy Black claims her nephew. Daniella Pineda, Austin Amelio, Elle LaMont, Miles Emmons, Lee Eddy, and Janeane Garofalo star in this terrifying story of regret, redemption, and the dark side of belief.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:39

    A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING... not knowing if what they're seeing is real, or staged.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:10

    Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA

    The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Four friends on their way to Coachella stop off in Los Angeles to tour true-crime occult sites, only to encounter a mysterious young runaway who puts them on a terrifying path to ultimate horror.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    Seven friends from Sacramento, California head out on a documented road trip to Las Vegas. Their trip takes a very unexpected turn for the worse when their back tires mysteriously blow out. A couple miles down the road, they find a little gas station Diner/Motel, run by the most friendly, polite and "helpful" people. It appears that their problems are solved, but boy are they wrong! When convinced by "The Helpers" to stay overnight, the friends all wake up in their rooms to a new kind of gruesome and bloody terror!

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    A group of hard up bounty hunters must survive the night in a desert motel against a horde of savage cartel killers. They soon realize that their fugitive, a mysterious Chinese woman, is much more than she lets on.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A fashion photographer is traveling to meet his sister at Eden Parish. Once there, his friends begin to film interviews with the Eden Parish inhabitants, all of whom speak of the commune in glowing terms. However, they soon discover that there is a sinister edge to the commune that belies the seemingly peaceful setting.




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