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2017 · Movie · R · your starting pointIf The Ritual is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like The Ritual, ranked
1. The Red Book Ritual: Gates of Hell (2025)
This atmospheric supernatural descent trades forest isolation for a haunted house, but shares The Ritual's exploration of guilt-fueled visions and the creeping dread of summoning forces beyond human comprehension.
3. Blood Sacrifice (2021)
The mounting dread of guilt and fractured friendships under psychological pressure mirrors how the forest becomes a manifestation of the group's collective trauma and unresolved grief.
4. Wrong Turn (2021)
The film's remote wilderness setting and isolated group dynamic create the same suffocating dread, while both explore how guilt and poor decisions trap characters in escalating horror scenarios.
5. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Both films use found-footage-style intimacy and escalating dread to trap characters in forests where guilt and paranoia become as deadly as the lurking threat itself.
6. Tresspass into Terror (2015)
The claustrophobic dread of trespassing into hostile territory mirrors The Ritual's suffocating descent into danger, as both films trap groups of friends in isolated settings where every misstep deepens their peril.
7. Ashburn Waters (2019)
The oppressive forest setting and exploration of guilt through supernatural dread create a similarly claustrophobic atmosphere where the group's internal tensions become as threatening as the external horror stalking them.
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