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Movies Like Saw
Saw chains two strangers in a decaying bathroom and lets the puzzle of how they got there drive the dread, with a killer who frames his crimes as tests. Traps, games and impossible choices, from brutal survival scenarios to captors with a twisted philosophy, define what comes next.
Matched to Saw (2004), rated 5/5 by the HorroRated team. Our own picks come first, then the closest matches by director, subgenre and mood.
Why it fits
- Our pick if you liked Saw
- Death Game
- Torture Horror
- Serial Killer
Police locate John Kramer while a group of people including a detective's son are already trapped inside a house running a second game.
Malignant
2021 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with Saw in our reviews
- Also from James Wan
- Serial Killer
Madison Lake wakes up from abdominal surgery and finds that what was done to her has created something that begins moving through walls and killing people.
PickThe House That Jack Built
2018 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with Saw in our reviews
- Serial Killer
- Psychological
Streaming on Shudder, AMC+, Tubi
Jack, a methodical intellectual killer, narrates his crimes across a twelve-year span and asks the audience to follow his logic.
PickThe Conjuring
2013 · MovieWhy it fits
- Also from James Wan
- Psychological
Streaming on HBO Max
Ed and Lorraine Warren are called to examine a Rhode Island farmhouse and find the family has been living with something for years.
PickUntil Dawn
2025 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with Saw in our reviews
- Psychological
Streaming on Netflix
The Until Dawn film places a new group in the mountain setting from the game and uses the butterfly effect mechanic as narrative structure.
PickTerrifier
2018 · MovieWhy it fits
- Torture Horror
- Serial Killer
- Independent
Streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, Tubi
Art the Clown works through Miles County on Halloween night with complete commitment. The film has no interest in anything other than that.
The Collector
2009 · MovieWhy it fits
- Torture Horror
- Serial Killer
- Independent
Streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
Arkin breaks into a house to rob it and finds a family being held captive inside an elaborate network of traps by someone already inside with them.
PickHalloween (1978)
1978 · MovieWhy it fits
- Serial Killer
- Psychological
- Cult Classic
Streaming on Shudder, AMC+
Michael Myers escapes a psychiatric institution fifteen years after murdering his sister and returns to Haddonfield on Halloween night. Laurie Strode has no idea she's about to become his target.
PickPsycho
1960 · MovieWhy it fits
- Serial Killer
- Psychological
- Cult Classic
Streaming on Netflix, Peacock
Marion Crane stops at an empty motel on the run from her own bad decision, and the manager seems harmless. The house on the hill behind the office is another matter.
American Psycho
2000 · MovieWhy it fits
- Serial Killer
- Psychological
- 2000s horror
Streaming on Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock
Patrick Bateman is a wealthy Manhattan investment banker in 1987 with a very precise skincare routine, an obsession with business cards, and a body count he may or may not be imagining.