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Movies Like Weapons
Weapons opens with almost an entire class of children vanishing on the same night and follows a town’s search for answers through more than one point of view. Missing kids, small-town secrets and mysteries that grip a whole community connect the films in this list.
Matched to Weapons (2025), 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 Weapons
- Supernatural
- Psychological
- 2020s horror
Streaming on HBO Max
Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate a case in their final years that connects to the larger demonic framework established across the previous Conjuring films.
PickScary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · MovieWhy it fits
- Our pick if you liked Weapons
- Social Horror
- Folk Horror
- Small Town Horror
Streaming on Peacock
Stella and her friends find Sarah Bellows's book of horror stories. The creatures from the illustrations start manifesting.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · MovieWhy it fits
- Our pick if you liked Weapons
- Supernatural
Streaming on Prime Video
Kat and Rose are both traveling home from Bramford Academy during a school break. One of them is taken in by a stranger with unclear intentions.
House of 1000 Corpses
2003 · MovieWhy it fits
- Our pick if you liked Weapons
- Occult
- Psychological
Streaming on Prime Video, Peacock, AMC+
Two couples following a documentary about American roadside oddities stop at a rural Texas attraction and end up as guests of a family that doesn't let people leave.
PickUntil Dawn
2025 · MovieWhy it fits
- Witchcraft
- Folk Horror
- Teen Horror
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.
PickThe Love Witch
2016 · MovieWhy it fits
- Witchcraft
- Folk Horror
- Occult
Streaming on Peacock, Tubi
Elaine is a modern-day witch who uses spells and potions to make men fall in love with her. The men keep ending up dead, which isn't exactly what she had in mind.
PickBarbarian
2022 · MovieWhy it fits
- Also from Zach Cregger
- Urban Horror
- Psychological
Streaming on Hulu
Tess and Keith arrive at a Detroit rental for a business trip and find an unexpected passageway in the basement.
PickThe Black Phone
2022 · MovieWhy it fits
- Small Town Horror
- Teen Horror
- Urban Horror
Streaming on Netflix
Finney Shaw is taken by the Grabber and held in a soundproofed basement in 1978 Denver. A disconnected black phone on the wall begins receiving calls from boys who were killed before him.
PickMidsommar
2019 · MovieWhy it fits
- Witchcraft
- Folk Horror
- Occult
Streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu
Dani follows her boyfriend and his friends to a remote Harga commune in Sweden months after a personal tragedy. The midsummer festival they attend becomes increasingly difficult to classify as merely cultural.
PickThe Wicker Man (1973)
1973 · MovieWhy it fits
- Witchcraft
- Folk Horror
- Occult
Streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
Sergeant Howie flies to a remote Scottish island to investigate a missing girl. The islanders are warm, cooperative, and completely evasive about the one thing he came to find.