Movies Like Occult

If you liked Occult (2009), a horror and mystery movie directed by Koji Shiraishi, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Noroi: The Curse (2005)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and mystery
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.
2
Backrooms (2026)
★ 7/10Also horror and mystery
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
3
Strange Harvest (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and mystery
Detectives are thrust into a chilling hunt for a sadistic serial killer from the past whose return marks the beginning of a new wave of grotesque, otherworldly crimes tied to a cosmic force.
4
Ring 2 (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and mystery
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her…
5
Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and mystery
Twenty years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful…
6
Creep 2 (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller
After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the…
7
Paranormal Activity (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and mystery
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of…
8
Ring (1998)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and thriller
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
9
Don't Let Go (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and mystery
A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
10
V/H/S/2 (2013)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain…
11
Malignant (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.
12
The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and mystery
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening…
13
V/H/S/94 (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material…
14
Grave Encounters (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
15
The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mystery
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence…
16
Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mystery
A group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is…
17
The Ring (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel…
18
Laplace's Witch (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and science fiction
An environmental analyst is asked by the police to determine if two deaths by hydrogen sulfide poisoning are an accident - or a murder. But when he meets a young woman at both sites, a scientific mystery begins.
19
Creep (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote…
20
Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night (2010)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
Koichi takes care of his sister, who has recently returned from a trip abroad in the United States as she is not well. While caring for her, he records evidence of ghosts in their home.