Movies Like The Pit and the Pendulum
If you liked The Pit and the Pendulum (1991), a horror movie directed by Stuart Gordon, 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.
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The Exorcist (1973)
★ 7.8/10Also horrorWhen a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
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Saint Catherine (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorAn orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
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Two Witches (2023)
★ 6/10Also horrorA matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering the most horrific curses.
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Ghostland (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also horrorA mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house…
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The Believers (1987)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorMourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
★ 5.8/10Also horrorA teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
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The Final (2010)
★ 6/10Also horrorA group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
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Psycho Killer (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorFollowing the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
★ 7.4/10Also horrorTeenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive…
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Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorNow confined to a mental hospital, young Kirsty insists her supposedly dead father is actually stuck in Hell following his wife’s betrayal. Few believe the young woman’s lurid stories aside from the thrill-seeking Dr…
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Orphan (2009)
★ 7/10Also horrorAfter losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
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Play Dead (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorA woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
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Vampires (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorThe church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
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House of Whipcord (1974)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorSomewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their…
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Saw V (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorFollowing Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome…
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Mirrors (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorAn ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
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Hellraiser (1987)
★ 6.9/10Also horrorA hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
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Hostel: Part II (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorThree American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.
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Books of Blood (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorA journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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Daddy's Head (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorA boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.