Movies like Weapons (2025)

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

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

1

The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)

Fit 69%

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Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.
2

The Witch (2016)

Fit 68%

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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.
3

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Fit 68%

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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.
4

Lady in White (1988)

Fit 63%

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Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
5

Suspiria (1977)

Fit 61%

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An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
6

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Fit 61%

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Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
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The Wretched (2019)

Fit 59%

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A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.
8

Seance (2021)

Fit 56%

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At an elite boarding school for girls, six friends jokingly engage in a late night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. Before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened.
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The Prodigy (2019)

Fit 50%

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A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.
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Dark Harvest (2023)

Fit 45%

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In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.