Movies like The Nun
2018 · Movie · R · your starting pointIf The Nun is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like The Nun, ranked

1. The Nun II (2023)
The same demonic nun returns to torment a new protagonist through another atmospheric European setting, maintaining James Wan's signature blend of gothic dread and jump-scares across isolated, consecrated spaces.

2. Immaculate (2024)
A remote convent setting and isolated nuns confronting supernatural dread create the same claustrophobic spiritual terror, with both films mining religious iconography and institutional paranoia for visceral horror.

3. The Bad Nun (2018)
The claustrophobic dread of a lone protagonist trapped with a malevolent nun builds the same suffocating psychological horror through confined spaces and religious terror.

4. The First Omen (2024)
Both films explore religious corruption and supernatural dread through isolated protagonists uncovering sinister Vatican conspiracies, but The First Omen builds its terror through methodical conspiracy unraveling rather than jump scares.

5. The Ritual (2025)
A haunted location steeped in religious dread and ritualistic terror creates the same suffocating atmosphere of spiritual corruption, with both films using isolated settings to trap characters between faith and supernatural forces beyond comprehension.

6. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
Both films position a faith-shaken priest investigating supernatural evil in isolated, historically cursed locations, but Dominion deepens the psychological horror by grounding demonic conflict in postwar trauma and moral ambiguity rather than pure gothic dread.

7. The Pope's Exorcist (2023)
Russell Crowe's exorcist hunts supernatural evil within crumbling religious institutions, blending visceral possession horror with investigations into the Catholic Church's buried conspiracies.

8. Luciferina (2018)
The isolated convent setting and creeping dread of demonic presence return here, but filtered through psychological unraveling as a novice's faith fractures amid ritualistic horror.
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