Movies like The Holy Boy (2025)

Name: The Holy Boy
Released: 2025

10 films to watch after The Holy Boy, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

1

Midsommar (2019)

Fit 78%

Shares Horror and Drama with The Holy Boy.

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
2

The Wicker Man (1973)

Fit 75%

Shares Horror with The Holy Boy.

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.
3

The Believers (1987)

Fit 68%

Shares Horror and Thriller with The Holy Boy.

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
4

Goodnight Mommy (2022)

Fit 67%

Shares Horror and Thriller with The Holy Boy.

When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
5

Chained (2012)

Fit 58%

Shares Horror, Thriller and Drama with The Holy Boy.

A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
6

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Fit 52%

Shares Drama and Thriller with The Holy Boy.

Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival. Democracy and order soon begin to crumble when a breakaway faction regresses to savagery with horrifying consequences.
7

The Surrender (2025)

Fit 50%

Shares Drama and Horror with The Holy Boy.

A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
8

Caged (2021)

Fit 49%

Shares Thriller, Horror and Drama with The Holy Boy.

An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
9

Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)

Fit 48%

Shares Drama, Horror and Thriller with The Holy Boy.

Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
10

Dust Devil (1992)

Fit 45%

Shares Horror and Thriller with The Holy Boy.

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.