20 movies like Sinister, ordered by similarity : House at the End of the Street(2012), Clive Barker's Book of Blood(2008), Worry Dolls(2016), The Devil's Candy(2015), The Lodgers(2017), The Wailing(2016), Sometimes They Come Back(1991), The Babadook(2014), One Missed Call 2(2005), Dark Was the Night(2014), Brimstone and Treacle(1982), Us(2019) ...
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|UK|Canada
2012
109 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Vincent D'Onofrio James Ransone Fred Dalton Thompson Clare Foley Juliet Rylance Michael Hall D'Addario Victoria Leigh Nick King Rob Riley Tavis Smiley
writer wife son daughter professor frightening tense household town murder relocation writer's block supernatural discovery mystery 2010s
Washed-up true crime writer Ellison Oswalt finds a box of super 8 home movies in his new home that suggest the murder that he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the 1960s.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada
2012
101 Minutes
Jennifer Lawrence Max Thieriot Elisabeth Shue Gil Bellows Eva Link Nolan Gerard Funk Allie MacDonald Jordan Hayes Krista Bridges James Thomas Hailee Sisera
single mother daughter boy neighbor townsperson waitress eerie suspenseful dark thrilling frightening small town household diner relocation murder family secrets strange happenings unusual friendship unlikely allies
After moving with her mother to a small town, a teenager finds that an accident happened in the house at the end of the street. Things get more complicated when she befriends a boy. A double murder is not an accident.
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Horror
2008
100 Minutes
Jonas Armstrong Sophie Ward Paul Blair Doug Bradley James Watson Clive Russell Romana Abercromby Simon Bamford
professor expert student young man partner writer suspenseful gory frightening house college bedroom diner bar truck supernatural haunted houses investigation strange happenings murder
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2016
86 Minutes
Christopher Wiehl Brea Grant Samantha Smith Kennedy Brice Kym Jackson Tina Lifford Yohance Myles Ashlynn Ross
police detective serial killer doll murder victim daughter brutal shocking somber frightening gory police station house curse murder murder plot obsession killer dolls pursuit mystery discovery
Guatemalan parents teach their children to allay their troubles by getting handmade worry dolls, but several of these talismans find their way into the hands of residents of a small Southern town and set off a grisly wave of bloodshed.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2015
80 Minutes
Ethan Embry Shiri Appleby Pruitt Taylor Vince Kiara Glasco J. Alan Nelson Mylinda Royer Jamie Tisdale Tony Amendola Arthur Dale
painter wife daughter heavy metal fan possessed person preacher chilling disturbing frightening frightful eerie tense texas demonic possession heavy metal mental illness antichrist moving horror discovery
School's out for summer... but not at the Bannister house! When their beloved dog Zeus (voiced by Mario Lopez) destroys a party planned by Belinda (Elisa Donovan), Grandma (Mindy Sterling) ... See full summary »
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Ireland
2017
93 Minutes
Charlotte Vega Bill Milner Eugene Simon David Bradley Deirdre O'Kane Moe Dunford Roisin Murphy Brendan O'Rourke Emmet Kelly Anthony Murphy Jack O'Malley
orphan twin outcast veteran supernatural being parent dark disturbing uneasy emotional frightening tense ireland house haunted house lake countryside small town incest rule breaking
A family curse confines orphaned twins Rachel and Edwards to their home, in punishment for their ancestors' sins. Bound to the rules of a haunting childhood lullaby, the twins must never let any outsiders inside the house.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2016
156 Minutes
Kwak Do-won Jun Kunimura Jeong-min Hwang Woo-hee Chun So-yeon Jang Heo Jin
villager stranger murderer serial killer suspenseful thrilling tense shocking village korea murder murder accusation village life strangers strange behavior discovery mystery 2010s
Suspicion leads to hysteria when rural villagers link a series of brutal murders to the arrival of a mysterious stranger (Kunimura Jun).
Horror
1991
97 Minutes
Tim Matheson Brooke Adams William Sanderson Robert Gorman Robert Rusler Bentley Mitchum Chris Demetral
teacher wife son ghost brother teenager creepy dark tense high school small town house tunnel relocation murder false accusations traumatic past supernatural second chance discovery
Teens from hell seek belated revenge on a high-school teacher (Tim Matheson) with a wife (Brooke Adams) and son.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Australia|Canada
2014
93 Minutes
Essie Davis Daniel Henshall Noah Wiseman Hayley McElhinney Barbara West Cathy Adamek Benjamin Winspear Craig Behenna
widow son monster intense somber thrilling shocking suspenseful brutal house child's room bedroom depression children's book monsters mother/son relationship fear horror films transformation mystery
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Japan
2005
105 Minutes
Mimura Yû Yoshizawa Asaka Seto Renji Ishibashi Peter Ho Haruko Wanibuchi
journalist friend teen girl spirit murderer sister frightening gory eerie japan taiwan hospital mining town ghost town tokyo murder investigation strange happenings supernatural travel survival
A Japanese restaurant cook/owner dies after answering his daughter's cellphone. Other people are getting strange, same ringtone calls as well and dying painfully. It happened in Taiwan as well. Can the police stop it if it's a ghost?
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2014
98 Minutes
Kevin Durand Lukas Haas Bianca Kajlich Nick Damici Sabina Gadecki Steve Agee Heath Freeman Billy Paterson
logger sheriff deputy townsperson monster father brutal dark disturbing frightening gripping uneasy woods united states small town church forest unexplained phenomenon curse missing persons
An evil is unleashed in a small town when a logging company sets up shop in the neighboring woods.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1982
87 Minutes
Sting Denholm Elliott Joan Plowright Suzanna Hamilton Benjamin Whitrow Dudley Sutton Mary MacLeod Tim Preece
writer wife disabled person con artist daughter chilling dark suspenseful england house strangers supernatural rape husband/wife relationship infidelity deception discovery transformation mystery 1980s
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Japan|USA
2019
116 Minutes
Lupita Nyong'o Winston Duke Elisabeth Moss Tim Heidecker Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Anna Diop Evan Alex Shahadi Wright Joseph Madison Curry Cali Sheldon Noelle Sheldon
husband son daughter masked man stranger uneasy frightening creepy gory brutal chilling beach beach house car woods bedroom living room home invasion survival family
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
UK
2015
95 Minutes
Diana Vickers Tony Curran Rupert Hill Peter Woodward Adrian Bouchet Sophie Lovell Anderson
lawyer father daughter fiancée accident victim man bleak brutal intense suspenseful creepy dark house woods hideout horror accident father/daughter relationship murder tradition
Deep in the English moors, a sociopath preys on innocent people, until one day his secrets are finally revealed and an inevitable confrontation is at hand.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2013
96 Minutes
Alix Elizabeth Gitter James Ralph Erick Avari Steve Bacic Jade Ramsey James C. Burns Nikita Ramsey Tadhg Kelly Tara Westwood James Cavlo
orphan uncle young girl murder victim murderer ghost creepy dark dreamy suspenseful touching thrilling united states countryside country house village small town murder murder investigation ghosts
A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is, only to find the killer is very close to her.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
2020
97 Minutes
Mary J. Blige Nat Wolff David Zayas Anika Noni Rose Demetrius Gross Sue-Lynn Ansari Ian Casselberry Sylvia Grace Crim Renell Gibbs
police officer murder victim supernatural being young person corrupt police officer bleak disturbing brooding dark gripping precinct house crime scene house street murder investigation supernatural phenomenon cover-up police corruption discovery mystery
When a routine traffic stop results in the unexplained, grisly death of her colleague, a cop realizes footage of the incident will play for her eyes only. As the attacks mount, she races to understand the supernatural force behind them.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2017
97 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Christopher Abbott Carmen Ejogo Riley Keough Kelvin Harrison Jr. Griffin Robert Faulkner David Pendleton Chase Joliet Mick O'Rourke
husband wife son refugee mother survivor bleak brooding creepy disturbing tense thrilling house woods basement forest home disease evil spirits mysterious illness
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2007
89 Minutes
Jaime King Cheng Pei-Pei Terry Chen Regan Oey Henry O Colin Foo Michael Biehn Vicky Huang
husband wife son pharmacist aunt ghost eerie dark tense vancouver, british columbia hospital funeral house pharmacy murder husband/wife relationship mourning visions chinese mythology supernatural
Jason and Sarah travel to Vancouver for a funeral, and their son begins seeing ghosts and violent deaths. After he is hospitalized, Sarah learns supernatural forces threaten her son.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|UK
2018
85 Minutes
Christina Hendricks Martin Henderson Bailee Madison Lewis Pullman Emma Bellomy Damian Maffei Lea Enslin Leah Roberts
husband wife son daughter stranger murderer brutal frightening gory uneasy brooding bleak abandoned house rv car cabin bridge living room abandoned spaces strangers
A family of four staying at a secluded mobile home park for the night are stalked and then hunted by three masked psychopaths.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Western
2018
86 Minutes
Caitlin Gerard Julia Goldani Telles Ashley Zukerman Miles Anderson Dylan McTee
woman husband ghost supernatural being newlywed couple creepy uneasy frightening thrilling intense wilderness frontier homestead supernatural mysterious strangers mystery relationships mystery adventure
When a frontierswoman in the 19th-century wilderness begins to sense a sinister presence, her dread is dismissed by her husband. But a newlywed couple arrives, amplifying fears and setting a shocking chain of events into motion.
Horror, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2017
91 Minutes
Lee Pace Carrie Coon Anna Diop Ray Baker Jane Daly Cliff Chamberlain Julian LaTourelle Ruby Moncrieff-Karten Lylah Raye Acosta
lawyer father estranged wife son ghost tense somber sad frightening engaging dark chilling family home death horror reunion forgiveness supernatural grief mystery
10 years after the death of their son, a divorced couple are suddenly reunited by supernatural events that offer them a chance at forgiveness.