Movies Like The Devil's Carnival (2012)

The Devil's Carnival is a 2012 horror, music film from Darren Lynn Bousman with a MovieMagicScore of 5.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival and Constantine.

Horror Music

Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival

2016

Lucifer incites Heaven’s wrath by dispatching train cars of condemned souls a-crashin’ through the pearly gates. As God plots to put an end to the rebellious deeds, a fable is told, and the midway gets set for a fateful reunion between God’s Agent and Hell’s Painted Doll, promising to make sinner and saint alike scream Alleluia!

6.0

MagicScore

Constantine

2005

John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

7.1

MagicScore

Frailty

2002

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

7.0

MagicScore

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

1999

In this feature film based on the hit animated series, the third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance and Phillip, and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy spirals into a call to wage war on Canada and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row, with the kids their only hope of rescue.

7.3

MagicScore

Reaper

2014

Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

5.4

MagicScore

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic

2010

Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.

7.0

MagicScore

Dead in Tombstone

2013

An outlaw named Guerrero Hernandez is shot in the back and killed whilst attempting to free his half-brother from a small-town prison. Making a deal with the devil, Hernandez returns from the dead to take his revenge.

5.0

MagicScore

The Magdalene Sisters

2002

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

7.4

MagicScore

Hell Torture

2023

Four siblings go missing and wake up in the afterlife, undergoing punishment for their worldly sins in the depths of hell.

6.4

MagicScore

#10

Repentance

1987

The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son's garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse keeps returning until the police capture the local woman who is responsible. This woman says that Varlam should never be laid to rest since his Stalin-like reign of terror led to the disappearance of her family and friends.

7.0

MagicScore

#11

Levity

2003

Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the newly paroled man seeks redemption. Instead, redemption—in the form of a mysterious minister and two needy women— finds him.

6.2

MagicScore

#12

Lady Death

2004

When accused by the townspeople of being in league with the Devil, Hope finds herself in a satanic deal for her life. After refusing the terms of the deal, she transforms into the powerful Lady Death and vows to wrest control of hell from her father.

7.1

MagicScore

#13

The Ninth Gate

1999

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

6.5

MagicScore

#14

The Witch's Curse

1962

Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.

4.6

MagicScore

#15

The Little Prince

1974

After a pilot is forced to make an emergency landing in the Sahara Desert, he befriends a young prince from outer space; the friendship conjures up stories of journeys through the solar system for the stranded aviator.

6.8

MagicScore

#16

Oldboy

2003

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.

8.2

MagicScore

#17

Hell's Bells

1929

The demons of hell play music for Satan, whose delight turns to wrath when an insubordinate refuses to become food for Cerberus.

6.5

MagicScore

#18

It

2017

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

7.2

MagicScore

#19

Hell House LLC

2015

Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.

6.5

MagicScore

#20

Dead Silence

2007

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

6.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Devil's Carnival?

The top films similar to The Devil's Carnival by MovieMagicScore are Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (6.0), Constantine (7.1), Frailty (7.0). Each shares horror/music themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Devil's Carnival worth watching?

The Devil's Carnival holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.4/10 from 91 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Devil's Carnival?

The Devil's Carnival (2012) is a horror, music film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Briana Evigan, Jessica Lowndes.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Devil's Carnival?

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About movies like The Devil's Carnival

This ranked list pairs The Devil's Carnival (2012), a horror and music film from Darren Lynn Bousman, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Sean Patrick Flanery take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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