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Movies Like The Conjuring
The Conjuring follows Ed and Lorraine Warren into a Rhode Island farmhouse and builds its scares with patience and old-school craft rather than gore. Look below for more haunted houses, possessions and investigators of the unexplained.
Matched to The Conjuring (2013), rated 5/5 by the HorroRated team. Our own picks come first, then the closest matches by director, subgenre and mood.
- Pick
Why it fits
- Our pick if you liked The Conjuring
- Also from James Wan
- Religious Horror
- Ghost Story
Streaming on HBO Max
Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the Enfield Poltergeist case in 1977 England, involving a single mother and her children in a council house.
Insidious
2011 · MovieWhy it fits
- Also from James Wan
- Haunted House
- Ghost Story
Streaming on AMC+, Tubi
Josh and Renai Lambert's son falls into an unexplained coma. What's actually happening is worse than a medical condition, and it isn't confined to their house.
The Haunting in Connecticut
2009 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Conjuring in our reviews
- True Crime
- Ghost Story
- Demons
Streaming on AMC+
The Campbell family rents a Connecticut house to be closer to the hospital treating their teenage son's cancer. Matt has visions that his illness can't fully account for.
Longlegs
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- True Crime
- Religious Horror
- Ghost Story
Streaming on Hulu
Lee Harker is sent to Astoria, Oregon to investigate a series of killings and finds that the local killer has connections to her own past the case file doesn't explain.
PickHereditary
2018 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Conjuring in our reviews
- Demons
- Family Horror
- Supernatural
Streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu
Annie's mother has just died, and the grief in the Graham household turns out to be the least of what's coming for this family. Something has been arranged for them long before anyone realized it.
Presence
2025 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Conjuring in our reviews
- Haunted House
- Ghost Story
- Family Horror
Streaming on Hulu
A family moves into a New Jersey house that already has an occupant, and the audience sees everything through its eyes. The presence isn't there to hurt them.
PickThe Shining
1980 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Conjuring in our reviews
- Haunted House
- Supernatural
- Psychological
Streaming on HBO Max
Jack Torrance moves his family into an empty mountain hotel for the winter to write and recover, but the hotel has other plans for him.
PickIt
2017 · MovieWhy it fits
- Haunted House
- Ghost Story
- Demons
Streaming on HBO Max
Bill Denbrough and the Losers Club spend a summer in 1989 Derry, Maine confronting Pennywise, a shape-shifting entity that has been working the town for centuries.
PickLate Night with the Devil
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- Premonition
- Religious Horror
- Demons
Streaming on Hulu, Shudder, AMC+
Jack Delroy's show Late Night with the Devil broadcasts from Studio 6B on Halloween night 1977. The special's escalating content is recovered on videotape years afterward.
PickSinners
2025 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Conjuring in our reviews
- Religious Horror
- Supernatural
Streaming on HBO Max
Smoke and Stack Ruffin return to their 1932 Mississippi hometown and open a juke joint that draws the local community together. Visitors arrive that night with a very specific interest in what's happening inside.