Movies Like House of the Witch (2017)

House of the Witch is a 2017 horror, tv movie film from Alex Merkin with a MovieMagicScore of 4.7/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with The Houses October Built 2 and Before Someone Gets Hurt.

Horror TV Movie

The Houses October Built 2

2017

Recovering from the trauma of being kidnapped last Halloween by the Blue Skeleton - a group who take "extreme haunt" to another level - five friends decide they must face their fears in order to move on. Heading back out on the road to visit more haunted house attractions, signs of the Blue Skeleton start appearing again and a new terror begins.

4.9

MagicScore

Before Someone Gets Hurt

2019

Tim and his team are the rising stars of the ghost hunting game. One thing they all like better than a good haunt is a great prank. When the team arrives at a new investigation, they cannot figure if the occurrences are part of some elaborate master prank or if the house is actually haunted. Unfortunately, they don't find the answer until it is far too late.

3.9

MagicScore

Don't Knock Twice

2017

A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

5.5

MagicScore

The Hollow

2015

It's Halloween eve on Shelter Island, and the small town is preparing for a killer storm. But the dark clouds gathering over the island are bringing with them a curse one-hundred years in waiting. As the woods give birth to an ungodly and insatiable creature of fire, bones, and earth, three sisters must scramble to stay alive through the long dark night of the Hollow. For it's not something you can kill. It's only something you can try and survive.

4.8

MagicScore

The Conjuring

2013

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

7.5

MagicScore

Poltergeist

1982

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

7.2

MagicScore

Lonesome Ghosts

1937

On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.

6.9

MagicScore

Haunt

2019

On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.

6.7

MagicScore

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

#10

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

#11

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

2019

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

6.5

MagicScore

#12

The Amityville Horror

1979

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

6.3

MagicScore

#13

Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House

2016

Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

Haunt Season

2024

A masked maniac targets cast members at a suburban Halloween haunt attraction, turning their staged injuries into gruesome real-life horrors. As the terror escalates, the lines between performance and reality blur.

6.1

MagicScore

#15

Truth or Dare

2017

Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

5.4

MagicScore

#16

The Skeptic

2009

After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the house which gnaws at Becket - some strange connection he senses he has with the house's past. Soon, the haunting turns personal.

5.3

MagicScore

#17

Night of the Demons III

1997

When a group of rambunctious teens take refuge in Hull House to escape the law, they soon realize their grave error upon meeting Angela.

5.3

MagicScore

#18

The Houses October Built

2014

Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them…

4.9

MagicScore

#19

Halloweentown

1998

On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.

6.8

MagicScore

#20

Return to Halloweentown

2006

As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for evil.

6.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like House of the Witch?

The top films similar to House of the Witch by MovieMagicScore are The Houses October Built 2 (4.9), Before Someone Gets Hurt (3.9), Don't Knock Twice (5.5). Each shares horror/tv movie themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is House of the Witch worth watching?

House of the Witch holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.7/10 from 134 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is House of the Witch?

House of the Witch (2017) is a horror, tv movie film directed by Alex Merkin, starring Emily Bader, Michelle Randolph, Jules Hartley.

Where can I find more recommendations like House of the Witch?

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About movies like House of the Witch

This ranked list pairs House of the Witch (2017), a horror and tv movie film from Alex Merkin, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Emily Bader 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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