Movies Like The Field Guide to Evil (2019)

The Field Guide to Evil is a 2019 horror film from Severin Fiala with a MovieMagicScore of 5.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Headhunter and Nightmares.

Horror

Headhunter

1989

A Miami cop finds out his wife has a female lover, so he starts crashing on the couch of his female partner. Meanwhile, a voodoo demon from Africa arrives among Miami's Nigerian community and begins decapitating some people and possessing others.

4.0

MagicScore

Nightmares

1983

A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.

5.6

MagicScore

Screams of a Winter Night

1979

Ten college friends take a winter weekend camping trip to Lake Durand. The group holes up in an old cabin where the original owners were once found dead, with local Native Americans suspecting they were the victims of a spirit called Shataba. As the group nestles in for the night, they start telling each other scary stories.

4.7

MagicScore

Fréwaka

2025

Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.

7.4

MagicScore

The Witch

2016

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

7.0

MagicScore

Devil Story

1986

After their car breaks down in the French countryside, a young couple must fend off a Nazi mutant and his gypsy mother, a mummy, and a possessed horse.

4.5

MagicScore

When Evil Lurks

2023

Residents of a small rural town discover that a demon is about to be born among them. They desperately try to escape before the evil is born, but it may be too late.

7.2

MagicScore

Incubus

1966

On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.

5.7

MagicScore

100 Candles Game: The Last Possession

2023

Influencer bloggers evoke spirit of vanished "black countess" during ritual at her mansion. She disappeared playing dimensional game. Their ritual unleashes otherworldly demons, and survivors must banish them back.

6.3

MagicScore

#10

Häxan

1922

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

7.6

MagicScore

#11

The Wailing

2016

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

7.4

MagicScore

#12

Night of the Demon

1957

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.

7.0

MagicScore

#13

Viy

1967

Based on the story by Nikolai Gogol, an Orthodox priest on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village, who turns into a beautiful young woman. Her dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights in the village, with terrors occurring and his faith waning as he reads prayers on overnight watch.

6.9

MagicScore

#14

A Dark Song

2016

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

6.3

MagicScore

#15

The Exorcist

1973

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

7.7

MagicScore

#16

Evil Dead Burn

2026

After her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family — descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into creatures that feed on fear, she comes to discover that the vows she took in life survive even in death.

7.7

MagicScore

#17

Hereditary

2018

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

7.3

MagicScore

#18

The Conjuring 2

2016

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

7.3

MagicScore

#19

Evil Dead Rise

2023

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

7.0

MagicScore

#20

Don't Look at the Demon

2022

A spiritual medium leads a paranormal investigative TV crew to a haunted home only to discover that the evil spirit she’s facing holds the key to her troubled past.

6.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Field Guide to Evil?

The top films similar to The Field Guide to Evil by MovieMagicScore are Headhunter (4.0), Nightmares (5.6), Screams of a Winter Night (4.7). Each shares horror themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Field Guide to Evil worth watching?

The Field Guide to Evil holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.5/10 from 87 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Field Guide to Evil?

The Field Guide to Evil (2019) is a horror film directed by Severin Fiala, starring Marlene Hauser, Luzia Oppermann, Birgit Minichmayr.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Field Guide to Evil?

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This ranked list pairs The Field Guide to Evil (2019), a horror film from Severin Fiala, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Marlene Hauser 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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