20 best movies like The Evil Within (2017)


List of the best movies like The Evil Within (2017): The Eye, Incarnate, The Endless, Re-cycle, The Hollow Child, A Night of Horror Volume 1, I Know You're in There, The Bye Bye Man, The Dark Tapes, Mercy.

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:32

Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryUSA
Duration02:16

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, fantasy
CountryThailand, Hong Kong
Duration01:48

Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer. She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable things and finds that she is experiencing the supernatural events that she described in her novel-to-be.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror
CountryCanada
Duration02:10

Samantha has lived her whole life in different foster homes. Now living in a small town, she never feels like she quite fits in, even with her own current foster family who might adopt her, or the boy who follows her around doing her classwork. So, it’s perhaps natural that she doesn’t know what to do with a curious tagalong little sister named Olivia. One day, Sam callously ditches Olivia, who wanders off into the woods on her own and disappears.

Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, Canada, Australia

Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

When his mother commits suicide, Tom Redding discovers he has a long lost sister that cannot move or talk. Together they travel to their dead mother's isolated home, where Tom hopes to document her illness, only to be driven to the brink of madness by a supernatural evil.

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: 4.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:19

A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:43

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

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
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA, Japan
Duration01:36

In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

A horror anthology of shorts themed around the five senses.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountrySweden
Duration01:16

Caroline, a woman in her late thirties, has lost everything and is searching for a new beginning. She moves into an old apartment and starts to realize that she is not as alone as she thought she was. Just as she is searching for something new, something old is searching for her.

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: 6.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, action, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:28

A relentlessly-paced hybrid of gritty crime thriller and Lovecraftian supernatural horror, "The Devil's Mile" follows a trio of kidnappers who take an ill-advised detour en route to deliver their hostages - two teenage girls - to their mysterious and powerful employer. When they accidentally kill one of the girls during a botched escape attempt, their simmering mistrust explodes into shocking violence. But what they thought was their worst case scenario is only the beginning, as they are engulfed by the hellish forces that haunt the road - a road they realize they may never escape. Now captors and captive must fight together to escape the monstrous forces pursuing them and somehow survive ...

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

    After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryCanada, USA

    A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Brothers Mike and Jody join family friend Reggie to battle the Tall Man and his evil minions from another dimension, for the final time.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:41

    Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan reimagine and contemporize the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:46

    Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.

    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: 5.2
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUSA

    A psychological horror about a young woman coping with an unwanted pregnancy after moving into a seemingly haunted house.

    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: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A group of Confederate soldiers who hole up in an abandoned plantation after robbing a bank, and find themselves at the mercy of supernatural forces.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    Trapped inside his car by a mudslide, smooth talking Jackson Alder suddenly finds himself in a situation he can't talk his way out of. With no hope of rescue, he must defy the odds; battling Mother Nature for his survival.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

      About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      A young writer experiences visions during episodes of sleep paralysis, and she retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated house in the desert. As the visions worsen, she teeters on the edge of insanity as she uncovers a life-threatening secret.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:01

      Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Indonesia

      Devil's Whisper is a supernatural horror film about demonic possession but at its core it's a psychological thriller about repressed memories, childhood trauma and the cycle of abuse.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      A group of young men dare a classmate to reach the porch of a legendary old house, said to be haunted by the thirteen victims of a family massacre. In hopes of making a viral video they arm him with a video camera to prove he was there or to capture him fleeing in terror before even reaching the house, as others have. When he doesn't return, the guys must go in to get him. Inside they discover the truth about the house, the fate of their friend and their own fate as well.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      One night at a secluded farmhouse deep in the Northern California woods, a small group of hardened young bikers and their girlfriends are tormented when one of the girls becomes savagely possessed and a gang of "Rockabillies" seemingly from the 1950's descends upon them to collect what is growing inside her.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryCanada, France
      Duration01:23

      A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA, Spain
      Duration01:21

      V/H/S: VIRAL's segments include the story of a deranged illusionist who obtains a magical object of great power, a homemade machine that opens a door to a parallel world, teenage skaters that unwillingly become targets of a Mexican death cult ritual, and a sinister, shadowy organization that is tracking a serial killer. The segments are tied together by the story of a group of fame-obsessed teens following a violent car chase in LA that unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last…

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      On the night of November 13th, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. took a high powered rifle and murdered his entire family as they slept. At his trial, DeFeo claimed that 'voices' in the house commanded him to kill. This is their story.

      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: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, documentary
      CountryUSA

      As mass hysteria breaks-out over an alleged demonic possession in an Indiana home, referred to as a “Portal to Hell,” Ghost Adventures host and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans buys the house, sight unseen, over the phone. He and his crew then become the next victims of the most documented case of demonic possession in US history… the “house of 200 demons.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.




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