20 best movies like The Lords of Salem (2012)

List of the best movies like The Lords of Salem (2012): Grave Encounters 2, Odd Thomas, In the Mouth of Madness, Vanishing on 7th Street, The Hollow, The Uninvited, The Order, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, The Dead Zone, Sinister 2.

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Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryCanada
Duration01:40

Tortured by the ghosts of the demonized insane asylum that killed the crew of GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, film students fight to escape death as their own paranormal investigation goes terribly wrong in this horrifying sequel.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:33

    In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

      A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic horror. Realizing they may in fact be the last people on earth, a dark shadow hones in on them alone.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
      CountryUSA

      Restless spirits stir this Hollow's Eve, beckoning Ian Cranston, the last blood relative of Ichabod Crane, back to Sleepy Hollow. Thundering hooves unleash a wave of bone-chilling screams as the ghost of the Headless Horseman rides again! Ian must try to save the town and his girlfriend, Karen and determine whether the sword-wielding stalker is their clownish classmate, Brody in costume, or the dark rider himself. If it's truly the Headless Horseman... how do you kill what's already dead?

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
      Duration01:27

      Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:42

      For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:09

      Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

      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: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:34

      A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada, France
      Duration01:50

      Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where they went was a single word etched into stone near the forest’s edge: YELLOWBRICKROAD.

      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: 6.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg
      Duration01:48

        A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

        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.

        Markimdb: 3.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:34

        A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
        Duration01:38

        After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in their sleep from a heart attack, Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:08

        WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:23

        A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family take an unexpected turn.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        An evil is unleashed in a small town when a logging company sets up shop in the neighboring woods. Isolated and threatened, a mysterious force hidden within the trees outside the small town of Maiden Woods, strikes fear in the townspeople as Sheriff Paul Shields attempts to overcome the demons of his past while protecting those that he loves.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada

        An eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

        Markimdb: 3.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        A torn suburban family refuses to heed the warning of an innocent prank left upon them which causes an unknown supernatural force to wreak havoc.

        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: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUSA, Belgium
        Duration01:36

        A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
        Duration01:56

        The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
        Duration01:34

        Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.

        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: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

        Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
        CountryUSA

        Young Noa and Michael are put in the care of their new nanny, Leonor, who Noa suspects is a malicious supernatural being. Dismissed by those around her, Noa works to uncover Leonor's true identity, but soon finds herself with far more than she bargained for.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryCanada, France
        Duration01:37

        A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden
        Duration01:34

        40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

        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: 4.8
        Genrehorror, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, western, detective
        CountryUSA

        A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland

        Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

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