Movies Like Beckoning the Butcher

If you liked Beckoning the Butcher (2013), a drama and horror movie directed by Dale Trott, 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
The Ritual (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and drama
Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.
2
Muse (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller and horror
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a…
3
The Surrender (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
4
Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror
When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when…
5
The Entity (1982)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thriller
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
6
Race with the Devil (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
7
Wolf Creek (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
8
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thriller
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before…
9
Lake Mungo (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and…
10
Kill List (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
11
Midsommar (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and drama
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets…
12
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and horror
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred…
13
Hereditary (2018)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thriller
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
14
Dust Devil (1992)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller
A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.
15
Barbarian (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thriller
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she…
16
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
17
Devil (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.
18
Wolf Creek 2 (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site's…
19
The Gift (2000)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and drama
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of…
20
The Exorcism of God (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and drama
An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a secret that’s eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his demon one…