50 Movies Like The Evil Dead (1981) You Need to Watch Next
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
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If you loved The Evil Dead (1981) by Sam Raimi, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Evil Dead, No One Will Save You, In the Mouth of Madness. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to The Evil Dead
Evil Dead
2013 · Fede Álvarez
Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote fores
In common: Horror
No One Will Save You
2023 · Brian Duffield
A lonely woman battles extraterrestrials who threaten her future while forcing her to face her past.
In common: Horror
In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · John Carpenter
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspiratio
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Hellraiser
1987 · Clive Barker
A 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 indi
In common: Horror
The Empty Man
2020 · David Prior
On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.
In common: Horror
Cobweb
2023 · Samuel Bodin
Eight year old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tapping from inside his bedroom wall—one that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter's fear intensifies, he believes that his
In common: Horror
Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · Gary Dauberman
Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glas
In common: Horror
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)
2015 · Tom Six
Taking inspiration from The Human Centipede films, the warden of a notorious and troubled prison looks to create a 500-person human centipede as a solution to his problems.
In common: Horror
Annabelle: Creation
2017 · David F. Sandberg
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll ma
In common: Horror
Saw II
2005 · Darren Lynn Bousman
The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews
In common: Horror
Annabelle
2014 · John R. Leonetti
A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.
In common: Horror
Ju-on: The Grudge
2002 · Takashi Shimizu
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via i
In common: Horror
Mama
2013 · Andy Muschietti
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued
In common: Horror
Christine
1983 · John Carpenter
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie,
In common: Horror
Rings
2017 · F. Javier Gutiérrez
Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her bo
In common: Horror
Poltergeist
1982 · Tobe Hooper
The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.
In common: Horror
Pet Sematary
2019 · Dennis Widmyer
Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a
In common: Horror
Suspiria
1977 · Dario Argento
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
In common: Horror
Halloween
2007 · Rob Zombie
The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.
In common: Horror
The Nun
2018 · Corin Hardy
A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.
In common: Horror
Triangle
2009 · Christopher Smith
When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.
In common: Horror
Jeepers Creepers
2001 · Victor Salva
On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
In common: Horror
Event Horizon
1997 · Paul W. S. Anderson
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident t
In common: Horror
The Cabin in the Woods
2012 · Drew Goddard
Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that
In common: Horror
The First Omen
2024 · Arkasha Stevenson
When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hope
In common: Horror
Jeepers Creepers 2
2003 · Victor Salva
When their bus is crippled on the side of a deserted road, a team of high school athletes discover an opponent they cannot defeat – and may not survive.
In common: Horror
Evil Dead II
1987 · Sam Raimi
Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they pl
In common: Horror
The Amityville Horror
2005 · Andrew Douglas
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. Howe
In common: Horror
Jeepers Creepers 3
2017 · Victor Salva
Taking place on the last day of the Creeper’s twenty-three-day feeding frenzy, as the skeptical Sergeant Tubbs teams up with a task force hellbent on destroying the Creeper for good. The Creeper fight
In common: Horror
Veronica
2017 · Paco Plaza
In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.
In common: Horror
The Mist
2007 · Frank Darabont
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that
In common: Horror
Annihilation
2018 · Alex Garland
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
In common: Horror
The Conjuring 2
2016 · James Wan
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
In common: Horror
The Nun II
2023 · Michael Chaves
In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.
In common: Horror
The Witch
2016 · Robert Eggers
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyal
In common: Horror
The Hills Have Eyes 2
2007 · Martin Weisz
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
In common: Horror
The Neon Demon
2016 · Nicolas Winding Refn
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
In common: Horror
Underwater
2020 · William Eubank
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
In common: Horror
Army of Darkness
1992 · Sam Raimi
Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.
In common: Horror
The Thing
1982 · John Carpenter
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
In common: Horror
Prometheus
2012 · Ridley Scott
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future
In common: Horror
Possession
1981 · Andrzej Żuławski
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he fin
In common: Horror
I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance Is Mine
2015 · Richard Schenkman
Jennifer Hills is still tormented by the brutal sexual assault she endured years ago. She’s changed identities and cities, reluctantly joining a support group where she begins to piece together a new
In common: Horror
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
In common: Horror
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Tim Burton
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit
In common: Horror
The Green Inferno
2013 · Eli Roth
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and th
In common: Horror
Carrie
2013 · Kimberly Peirce
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.
In common: Horror
The Babadook
2014 · Jennifer Kent
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
In common: Horror
Cujo
1983 · Lewis Teague
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
In common: Horror
The Descent
2005 · Neil Marshall
After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they
In common: Horror