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Movies Like The Beast Must Die

If you liked The Beast Must Die (1974), a horror and mystery movie directed by Paul Annett, 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. 1The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It

    The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror

    Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking…

  2. 2The Haunting

    The Haunting (1963)

    ★ 7.1/10Also horror

    Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced…

  3. 3Dracula

    Dracula (1958)

    ★ 7.2/10Also horror

    After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's…

  4. 4Monster Summer

    Monster Summer (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also mystery and horror

    When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.

  5. 5The Cellar

    The Cellar (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror and mystery

    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. 6Van Helsing

    Van Helsing (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror

    Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with…

  7. 7Dracula's Daughter

    Dracula's Daughter (1936)

    ★ 6/10Also horror

    A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.

  8. 8Siren

    Siren (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    A bachelor party becomes a savage fight for survival when the groomsmen unwittingly unleash a fabled predator upon the festivities.

  9. 9Basilisk: The Serpent King

    Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by…

  10. 10Fear in the Night

    Fear in the Night (1972)

    ★ 5.8/10Also mystery and horror

    It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled…

  11. 11Something Wicked This Way Comes

    Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

    ★ 6.5/10Also mystery and horror

    In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?

  12. 12The Horror of Frankenstein

    The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror

    Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.

  13. 13Pyewacket

    Pyewacket (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    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.

  14. 14Red Riding Hood

    Red Riding Hood (2011)

    ★ 6/10Also mystery and horror

    Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is…

  15. 15House on Haunted Hill

    House on Haunted Hill (1959)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery

    Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a…

  16. 16The Innocents

    The Innocents (1961)

    ★ 7.5/10Also horror and mystery

    In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

  17. 17The Blob

    The Blob (1958)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to…

  18. 18Dracula

    Dracula (1931)

    ★ 7.2/10Also horror

    A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves and drives the agent to insanity, the pair return to London…

  19. 19The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also mystery

    Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…

  20. 20Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con

    Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con (2021)

    ★ 7.2/10Also mystery

    When Aida Teagarden's real estate client is found murdered, her sleuthing daughter Aurora sets out with her fiancé Nick and the Real Murders Club to solve the murder.

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