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Movies Like House Guest

If you liked House Guest (2013), a thriller and horror movie directed by Jake Jalbert, 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. 1Funny Games

    Funny Games (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and horror

    When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to…

  2. 2Bone Lake

    Bone Lake (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream…

  3. 3Halloween

    Halloween (1978)

    ★ 7.6/10Also horror and thriller

    Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

  4. 4The Strangers

    The Strangers (2008)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they…

  5. 5The Call

    The Call (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller

    Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a…

  6. 6Watcher

    Watcher (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller

    As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

  7. 7The Conjuring

    The Conjuring (2013)

    ★ 7.5/10Also horror and thriller

    Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying…

  8. 8Mindcage

    Mindcage (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and…

  9. 9Ma

    Ma (2019)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller

    Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting…

  10. 10Whisper

    Whisper (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller

    Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.

  11. 11Black Phone 2

    Black Phone 2 (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also horror and thriller

    Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of…

  12. 12The Black Phone

    The Black Phone (2022)

    ★ 7.5/10Also horror and thriller

    Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney…

  13. 13Bloodline

    Bloodline (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

  14. 14Bloodline Killer

    Bloodline Killer (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.

  15. 15Like Minds

    Like Minds (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and horror

    A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.

  16. 16Hider in the House

    Hider in the House (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

  17. 17Sinister 2

    Sinister 2 (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

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

  18. 18Insidious: Chapter 2

    Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and thriller

    The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

  19. 19Insidious: The Last Key

    Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller

    Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

  20. 20No Good Deed

    No Good Deed (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him…

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