Movies Like It Lives Inside (2023)

It Lives Inside is a 2023 horror, mystery film from Bishal Dutta with a MovieMagicScore of 5.7/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Come Play and Don't Follow Me.

Horror Mystery

Come Play

2020

A lonely young boy feels different from everyone else. Desperate for a friend, he seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy's devices against him to break into our world, his parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.

6.4

MagicScore

Don't Follow Me

2025

Obsessed with going viral with her videos of ghosts and paranormal events, aspiring influencer Carla moves into a famous haunted building. There, she begins faking ghostly apparitions to gain more followers, unaware that a real evil entity resides in her apartment and will torment her until no one, not even she, can distinguish what's real and what isn't.

6.2

MagicScore

undertone

2026

The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.

6.0

MagicScore

Bring Her Back

2025

Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.

7.3

MagicScore

Insidious

2011

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

7.0

MagicScore

The Conjuring: Last Rites

2025

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.

7.0

MagicScore

Hokum

2026

When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.

6.9

MagicScore

Black Phone 2

2025

Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

6.8

MagicScore

Saccharine

2026

After succumbing to an obscure weight-loss craze involving the eating of human ashes, lovelorn medical student Hana finds herself haunted by the ghost of the person she's eating.

6.8

MagicScore

#10

Insidious: Chapter 2

2013

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

6.7

MagicScore

#11

Insidious: The Red Door

2023

To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying terrors that lurk behind the red door.

6.5

MagicScore

#12

Insidious: Out of the Further

2026

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

6.5

MagicScore

#13

Insidious: Chapter 3

2015

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

6.3

MagicScore

#14

Insidious: The Last Key

2018

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

6.3

MagicScore

#15

The Monkey

2025

When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.

6.0

MagicScore

#16

The Curse of La Llorona

2019

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

5.7

MagicScore

#17

Night Swim

2024

Forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, former baseball player Ray Waller moves into a new house with his wife and two children. He hopes that the backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for himself. However, a dark secret from the home's past soon unleashes a malevolent force that drags the family into the depths of inescapable terror.

5.5

MagicScore

#18

Bhooth Bangla

2026

A man inherits a palace in rural Mangalpur and plans his sister's wedding there, but strange supernatural events and panicked locals force him to investigate the property's mysterious past.

5.4

MagicScore

#19

Final Destination Bloodlines

2025

Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

Smile

2022

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

6.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like It Lives Inside?

The top films similar to It Lives Inside by MovieMagicScore are Come Play (6.4), Don't Follow Me (6.2), undertone (6.0). Each shares horror/mystery themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is It Lives Inside worth watching?

It Lives Inside holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.7/10 from 267 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is It Lives Inside?

It Lives Inside (2023) is a horror, mystery film directed by Bishal Dutta, starring Megan Suri, Neeru Bajwa, Mohana Krishnan.

Where can I find more recommendations like It Lives Inside?

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About movies like It Lives Inside

This ranked list pairs It Lives Inside (2023), a horror and mystery film from Bishal Dutta, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Megan Suri 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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