Movies like Needful Things
If Needful Things's mix of small town, sheriff and pain stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Needful Things's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Gift
2000 · Directed by Sam Raimi · 112 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: small town, sheriff · Also horror and drama
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see.
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The Devil All the Time
2020 · Directed by Antonio Campos · 138 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: small town, sheriff
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
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It
2017 · Directed by Andy Muschietti · 135 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: small town · Also horror and drama
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · Directed by John Carpenter · 95 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: small town · Also horror and drama · From the same decade (1990s)
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
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The Exorcism of God
2022 · Directed by Alejandro Hidalgo · 98 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: small town · Also horror and drama
An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a secret that’s eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his demon one…
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Weapons
2025 · Directed by Zach Cregger · 129 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: small town
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.
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Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Directed by Tim Burton · 105 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: small town · From the same decade (1990s)
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…
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The Dead Zone
1983 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 103 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: sheriff
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years.