Movies like Lair of the Killer Clowns (2023)
The best movies like Lair of the Killer Clowns (2023) are The Jack in the Box Rises (2024), Terrifier (2018) and The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022). If Lair of the Killer Clowns hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGrindhouse (2007)7.0/10 from 1,984 votes
- NewestMonkey’s Magic Merry Go Round (2026)Released 2026
The Jack in the Box Rises (2024)
When a creepy Jack-in-the-Box is discovered and opened on the grounds of an exclusive girls' school, six brave students soon enter a fight to the finish against the unleashed demon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerrifier (2018)
A mute maniac named Art the Clown terrorizes two friends on Halloween and everyone else who gets in his way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022)
When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is opened by a dying woman, she enters into a deal with the demon within that would see her illness cured in return for helping it claim six innocent victims.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClown (2014)
A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisClown in a Cornfield (2025)
Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down. As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Jester (2023)
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerrifier 2 (2022)
Resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County to terrorize a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStitches (2012)
The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Jester 2 (2025)
When teen magician Max crosses paths with the sinister Jester on Halloween night, she must outsmart a supernatural killer whose magic is all too real and whose tricks always end up in blood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Harvest (2023)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn Halloween (2020)
A journalist goes in search of the truth after a series of brutal deaths and disappearances lead back to an urban legend about a serial killing clown that has stalked the woods of Century Park for over a hundred years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Devil Comes at Night (2023)
A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrindhouse (2007)
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMonkey’s Magic Merry Go Round (2026)
After a mysterious bout of amnesia, a beloved children’s television host struggles to piece together his fractured memories, only to find his once-cheerful puppet co-stars behaving with sinister intent. As reality unravels, the line between performance and nightmare begins to blur.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Boogeyman (2023)
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Nun's Curse (2020)
A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil (1978)
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBunnyman Vengeance (2017)
The man known as Bunnyman returns home to find his family running a haunted house attraction. The family welcomes him home, but soon realizes you cannot domesticate a wild animal. Death and mayhem ensue as the family turn on one another to fulfill their bloodlust.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHack! (2007)
Seven college students are picked to travel to a private island owned by the reclusive Vincent King and his film-obsessed wife Mary Shelley to study island wildlife. But is isn't long when a mysterious killer begins killing the students one-by-one, and modeling them after gory murder scenes from numerous horror films.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack Clown (2022)
Mysterious clowns torment a pair of 20-year-old buddies and haunt the mind of a schizophrenic man in this two-part horror film.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
It Kills: Camp Blood 7 (2017)
A group of college kids on break find themselves in a terrifying situation when they become stranded at the infamous Camp Blood.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Out of the Dark (1988)
A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPhantom of the Big Tent (1954)
Mr. Rossi and Mr. Capelli, co-owners of a successful traveling circus, have a rivalry over the affections of the lovely Dolores. That's all settled after Rossi is mauled to death by a lion. Years later a series of accidents, attacks and mysterious deaths plague the circus.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
House of Whores 2: The Second Cumming (2016)
What do you get when you cross a sexually depraved Preacher with 2 coke snorting nymphomaniacs? Well, you get a visit from Slasho, Shago and Smasho, that's what you get! That's right, the Clowns are back for an all-new adventure! Follow along as our 3 Masked Maniacs terrorize another home hidden in the suburbs of degenerates. Travel deep into the depths of Sluggo's lab and marvel at his latest creation, Skanko! Feast your eyes on the stunning beauty of Naughty Nina as you helplessly fall under the alluring spell of Nurse Hatchet...the Ruler of Pussyland!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Dream Nightmare (2016)
A Manny Velazquez Psychological Thriller about a young detective finds a handcrafted Indian sculpture in an alley, and takes it home with him, but he soon realizes that the sculpture is bringing his worst fears to life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Camp Blood 666 Part 2: Exorcism of the Clown (2023)
Camp Blood is under new ownership as the updated "Camp Blackwood". Locals hope to bury the infamous clown killer's past, and release the victims from their torment. But when a pastor with ties to the previous grounds takes his church group out to make contact with restless spirits, wrath is all they are doomed to find. The clown killer is back, and this time he has an enemy of equal evil. His former cult followers have turned, as well as a vengeful witch, who will stop at nothing to see these titans of terror collide, and destroy anyone in their path.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Clown Murders (1976)
A group of young professionals decides to play a practical joke on one of their ex-girlfriends who married a rich man who is about to close a major real estate deal. They plan to kidnap her and mess up the deal. Unfortunately, the joke becomes deadly serious.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Drive Thru (2007)
A high-school student must save townspeople from a murderous clown who works at a fast-food place.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Lair of the Killer Clowns?
The closest matches to Lair of the Killer Clowns are The Jack in the Box Rises (2024), Terrifier (2018) and The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Lair of the Killer Clowns?
Start with The Jack in the Box Rises (2024), the closest match to Lair of the Killer Clowns.
What is the highest-rated movie like Lair of the Killer Clowns?
Grindhouse (2007), rated 7.0/10 by 1,984 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Lair of the Killer Clowns?
Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Lair of the Killer Clowns?
Yes: The Jack in the Box Rises (2024), Terrifier (2018) and The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022).
How are movies similar to Lair of the Killer Clowns chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Lair of the Killer Clowns, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.