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Movies Like The Exorcist
The Exorcist watches a mother run out of medical answers as her daughter changes in ways no doctor can explain, until two priests are called in. Possession, faith under strain and families desperate for help are at the heart of the films that follow.
Matched to The Exorcist (1973), 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 The Exorcist
- Religious Horror
- Demons
- Supernatural
Streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, Tubi
Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.
PickRosemary's Baby
1968 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Exorcist in our reviews
- Religious Horror
- Demons
- Supernatural
Streaming on Paramount+, AMC+
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into a storied Manhattan apartment building and their charming elderly neighbors take an unusually strong interest in Rosemary's pregnancy.
PickThe Omen (1976)
1976 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Exorcist in our reviews
- Religious Horror
- Demons
- Supernatural
Streaming on Peacock
In a Rome hospital, a grieving American diplomat secretly accepts an orphaned newborn so his wife never learns their own baby died. Years later in London, death starts following the boy wherever he goes.
PickAlice, Sweet Alice
1976 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Exorcist in our reviews
- Religious Horror
- Psychological
- 1970s horror
Streaming on Prime Video, AMC+, Tubi
On the morning of her First Communion, a little girl is murdered inside a New Jersey church, and suspicion settles on her sullen older sister. Meanwhile, a figure in a yellow raincoat and a translucent mask keeps striking.
Stigmata
1999 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Exorcist in our reviews
- Religious Horror
- Demons
- Supernatural
Streaming on Tubi
A Pittsburgh woman with no religious faith suffers the wounds of the crucifixion. A Vatican investigator arrives to find out why.
PickTales from the Crypt
1972 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Exorcist in our reviews
- Supernatural
- 1970s horror
- Cult Classic
Streaming on Tubi
Five tourists take a wrong turn beneath a cemetery and find a hooded keeper who has a story prepared for each of them. The stories are not kind.
Salem's Lot
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Exorcist in our reviews
- Religious Horror
- Supernatural
- Literary Adaptation
Streaming on HBO Max
Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot after decades away and finds that a recent arrival in an old house has been systematically working through the town.
Heretic
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Exorcist in our reviews
- Religious Horror
- Psychological
Streaming on HBO Max, Hulu, Tubi
Hugh and Felix are visitors to a small Utah bed and breakfast when Mr. Reed produces evidence he claims proves God exists and refuses to let them leave without engaging with it.
PickCarrie (1976)
1976 · MovieWhy it fits
- Religious Horror
- Supernatural
- Psychological
Streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max
Carrie White has spent her whole life absorbing cruelty from her mother and her classmates. Prom night is when the account comes due.
PickAnnabelle: Creation
2017 · MovieWhy it fits
- Religious Horror
- Demons
- Supernatural
Streaming on HBO Max
A group of orphaned girls is placed in the Mullins household in the 1950s, where the parents have been living with a tragedy and something attached to a doll.