
Movies that feel like The Ritual (2017)
If you loved The Ritual, the closest films we have are Absentia (2011), The Little Stranger (2018) and The Lodge (2020). All three share The Ritual's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Paramount Plus Premium and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.
If The Ritual hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: grief

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath
The difference: Missing the melancholy of The Ritual

Common ground in both: murder and cabin

The same preoccupation in both: murder
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Twisty and melancholy in the same breath
The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Ritual does

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Mystery built on unease, twice over
The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than The Ritual does

One thread runs through both: nightmare
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

Common ground: monster

Both are working the same pair: forest, friends

Twisty horror, and it commits to that
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