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Movies Like Crucible of Horror

If you liked Crucible of Horror (1971), a horror and thriller movie directed by Viktors Ritelis, 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. 1Bone 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…

  2. 2The Stepfather

    The Stepfather (1987)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller

    Seemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison has just murdered his entire family. After adopting a new identity and skipping town, he begins building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter. However, he soon…

  3. 3Daddy's Head

    Daddy's Head (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.

  4. 4The Deliverance

    The Deliverance (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services…

  5. 5The Cellar

    The Cellar (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror

    When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk…

  6. 6You Shall Not Sleep Tonight

    You Shall Not Sleep Tonight (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    A boy is haunted by terrifying nightmares where a monster lurks inside the closet. To his relief, his father appears in the middle of the night helping him to face his fears. But the boy will begin to question the true…

  7. 7Succubus

    Succubus (2024)

    ★ 8.3/10Also horror and thriller

    A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he…

  8. 8The 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…

  9. 9Whisper

    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.

  10. 10Sleepwalkers

    Sleepwalkers (1992)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam…

  11. 11The Dark and the Wicked

    The Dark and the Wicked (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the…

  12. 12Poltergeist II: The Other Side

    Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition…

  13. 13You'll Never Find Me

    You'll Never Find Me (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the…

  14. 14Hereditary

    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.

  15. 15Pyewacket

    Pyewacket (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.

  16. 16Cheat

    Cheat (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10Also thriller and horror

    On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek…

  17. 17Daddy's Little Girl

    Daddy's Little Girl (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture…

  18. 18825 Forest Road

    825 Forest Road (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    After a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark history of being haunted by a ghostly…

  19. 19Black 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…

  20. 20Creep

    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…

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