Movies like Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House (2023)
The best movies like Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House (2023) are Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer (2018), Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster (2019) and Voyeur (2017). If Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House hooked you with its documentary and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedDear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)8.1/10 from 621 votes
- NewestZodiac Killer Project (2025)Released 2025
Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer (2018)
Ed Kemper, also known as the Co-Ed Killer, murdered and dismembered 10 people, including his own mother. Former FBI agent John Douglas takes us through his extensive interviews with Kemper, which became the backbone of modern criminal psychology.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster (2019)
New exclusive access and never before heard testimony gives a unique insight into the mind of America's most notorious serial killer, Ted Bundy. Breathtaking archive from the time and the voice of Bundy himself, reveals the monster inside the man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & documentary
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVoyeur (2017)
Legendary journalist Gay Talese unmasks a motel owner who spied on his guests for decades. But his bombshell story soon becomes a scandal of its own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisCropsey (2010)
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & documentary
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Toolbox Killer (2021)
Known as “The Toolbox Killer,” Lawrence Bittaker, alongside his partner Roy Norris, committed heinous acts. Bittaker remained silent about his crimes for 40 years until he met criminologist Laura Brand. Over the course of five years, Brand recorded her many conversations with Bittaker as he spoke from death row about his methods and motives, providing unique insights into the mind of a criminal sadist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
The Co-Ed Killer: Mind of a Monster (2021)
In 1972 Santa Cruz, Calif., police fear multiple serial killers are operating at the same time, as human remains wash upon the shores of the seaside community; victims include children, students, pedestrians and hitchhikers. The story and reality of Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer" who appears to be a gentle giant who offers rides to young female hitchhikers but is actually a perverted monster with a tormented childhood and dark sexual fantasies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
An Oscar nominated documentary about a middle-class American family who is torn apart when the father Arnold and son Jesse are accused of sexually abusing numerous children. Director Jarecki interviews people from different sides of this tragic story and raises the question of whether they were rightfully tried when they claim they were innocent and there was never any evidence against them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeware the Slenderman (2016)
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The entrance to the internet quickly leads to its darkest basement. How responsible are our children for what they find there?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbducted in Plain Sight (2017)
A family falls prey to the manipulative charms of a neighbor, who abducts their adolescent daughter. Twice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (2023)
After Kai saves a woman's life, he turns into an overnight hero and viral sensation — until disturbing truths about his erratic behavior come to light. This shocking documentary chronicles a happy-go-lucky nomad's ascent to viral stardom and the resulting steep downward spiral.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & documentary
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
Child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale life that turned out to be a living nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & documentary
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Imposter (2012)
In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKiller Legends (2014)
Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cheshire Murders (2013)
In the early-morning hours of July 23, 2007, in Cheshire, Conn., ex-convicts Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky broke into the family home of William Petit, his wife, Jennifer, and their daughters, Michaela, 11, and Hayley, 17. Dr. Petit was beaten and tied to a pole in the basement. The three women were bound in their bedrooms while the men ransacked the house. The brutal ordeal continued throughout the morning, ending with rape, arson and a horrific triple homicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2013)
An experimental documentary film that uses archival footage, interviews, and fictionalised scenarios to tell the story of the people around Jeffrey Dahmer during the summer of his arrest in 1991.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisAileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParadise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
Revisiting the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAmerican Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)
Using raw, firsthand footage, this documentary examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & documentary
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Haunting of Fox Hollow Farm (2011)
In the early 1990s the property was bought on contract by Herb Baumeister, a local business owner and family man. Although never brought to trial, he was the prime suspect in the disappearance of a number of individuals from the Midwest through two decades. Over a six-month period, six paranormal investigation teams,including psychics, a demonologist, EVP and visual specialists,investigated an 18-acre estate in Westfield, Indiana known as Fox Hollow Farm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Goodnight, Sugar Babe: The Killing of Vera Jo Reigle (2013)
The discovery of the mutilated body of a mentally challenged young mother begins a journey into madness that is so unbelievable the mastermind behind the crime ultimately got away with murder. Revealing for the first time how and why it happened filmmaker J. David Miles ventures into the insane mind of a small town crime family's matriarch and uncovers a conspiracy that continues to elude law enforcement to this very day. By going straight to the murderers themselves for interviews it is a true crime investigation like you have never seen, unveiling an alternate motive to what was presented in the courtroom that is as bizarre as it is heartbreaking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Tickled (2016)
Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1992)
In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJeffrey Dahmer: Confessions of a Serial Killer (2012)
Jeffrey Dahmer lived a ghastly double life as an adult, ultimately becoming known as one of America’s most infamous serial killers. Through an exclusive interview with Dahmer, as well as his mother and father, this program takes an extended look inside the mind of a serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2000)
A documentary about a man who molested generations of his children and stepchildren.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Zodiac Killer Project (2025)
Against the backdrop of deserted spaces, a filmmaker explores his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary, delving into the true crime genre's inner workings at a saturation point.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Missing 411: The Hunted (2019)
Hunters have disappeared from wildlands without a trace for hundreds of years. David Paulides presents the haunting true stories of hunters experiencing the unexplainable in the woods of North America.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary
The Killing of America (1981)
A documentary of the decline of America, composed of archival material and exclusive footage, carnage, madness, and mayhem with an unapologetic sincerity on the factual depiction of violence in the industrialized nation of the United States. Featuring a juxtaposition of detailed accounts of terrible acts, brutal behavior, and interviews from experts and convicted killers alike.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChaos: The Manson Murders (2025)
In August 1969, Charles Manson's followers killed seven people on his orders. Why? Explore a conspiracy of mind control, CIA experiments, and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both documentary & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House?
The closest matches to Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House are Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer (2018), Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster (2019) and Voyeur (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House?
People who watched Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House most often go on to Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer (2018), Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster (2019) and Voyeur (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House?
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008), rated 8.1/10 by 621 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House?
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House?
Yes: Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer (2018), Ted Bundy: Mind of a Monster (2019) and Voyeur (2017).
How are movies similar to Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Monster Inside: America's Most Extreme Haunted House, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.