Movies Like The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale
If you liked The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale (2018), a horror and thriller movie directed by Derrick Sims, 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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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thrillerAn aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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Hereditary (2018)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thrillerWhen the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
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You're Not Alone (2020)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller and horrorAfter the premature death of her estranged husband, Emma (Winter) regains custody of their young daughter Isla (Jones) and hopes to rebuild their relationship after many years apart. But when an evil entity begins to…
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Burnt Offerings (1976)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thrillerA family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
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Presence (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and dramaA couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in…
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The Eternal Daughter (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerAn artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
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Flowers in the Attic (1987)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thrillerAfter the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their…
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The Surrender (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horrorA 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.
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The Others (2001)
★ 7.6/10Also horror and thrillerGrace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to…
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Pearl (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also horror and dramaTrapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions…
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825 Forest Road (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerAfter 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…
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Ghost Story (1981)
★ 6/10Also horror and dramaFour successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of…
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1922 (2017)
★ 6/10Also horror and dramaA simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
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Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horrorRecently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by…
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Byzantium (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerResidents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
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Starve Acre (2024)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and dramaWhen their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.
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Pyewacket (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerA frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.
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The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horrorA young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
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House of Usher (1960)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and dramaConvinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop…
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I'll Take Your Dead (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and dramaWilliam has a simple job: he makes dead bodies disappear. His daughter Gloria has become used to rough-looking men dropping off corpses, and is even convinced that some of them are haunting their house.