Movies Like The Bad Seed

If you liked The Bad Seed (2018), a horror and thriller movie directed by Rob Lowe, 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
Goodnight Mommy (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller
When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
2
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…
3
Watcher (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
4
Buried Alive (1990)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and horror
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
5
The Bad Seed Returns (2022)
★ 7/10Also horror and thriller
Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent…
6
Like Minds (2006)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and horror
A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.
7
Orphan: First Kill (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thriller
After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip, she is put against a mother…
8
Infidelity in Suburbia (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and tv movie
With her husband away at work, and her son at school, Laura dreams of a home-renovation project to supplant her restless days. Elliott, her irresistibly hot private contractor, soon fulfills her more forbidden dreams.
9
Psycho (1960)
★ 8.4/10Also horror and thriller
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
10
Urban Legend (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
11
Us (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thriller
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors…
12
Night of the Hunted (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her…
13
Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and horror
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
14
The Lie (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.
15
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.
16
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thriller
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
17
Psycho II (1983)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
18
The Invisible Man (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and horror
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can…
19
Hierarchy (2025)
★ 6/10Also thriller and tv movie
In an undisclosed area of Texas after two adoptive brothers become entangled in criminal activity, forced to evade law enforcement and the greedy Russian mafia.
20
Bad Sister (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and tv movie
As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a…