Movies like The Fury (1978)
The best movies like The Fury (1978) are Firestarter (1984), The Sender (1982) and The Dead Zone (1983). If The Fury hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Omen (1976)7.4/10 from 2,555 votes
- NewestPatrick (2013)Released 2013
Firestarter (1984)
Charlene "Charlie" McGee has the amazing ability to start fires with just a glance. Can her psychic power and the love of her father save her from the threatening government agency which wants to destroy her?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sender (1982)
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dead Zone (1983)
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. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPhenomena (1985)
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Power (1968)
One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Carrie (1976)
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPatrick (1978)
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Terminal Man (1974)
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisScanners (1981)
A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Manitou (1978)
A psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400 year-old demonic Native American spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Brood (1979)
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Stepford Wives (1975)
Joanna Eberhart comes to the town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAltered States (1980)
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatrick Still Lives (1980)
A group of strangers are summoned to the secluded home of Patrick, a young man rendered comatose after a freak accident, but soon find themselves falling victim to Patrick's mysterious psychic powers and murderous rage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Primal Rage (1988)
A scientist at a Florida university inadvertently creates a "rage virus" while performing experiments intended to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. When a journalist for the college paper breaks into the campus lab, he's bitten by one of the infected baboons; the virus soon spreads to a trio of rapists and a valley girl, all of whom go on killing sprees.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeadly Friend (1986)
When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatrick (2013)
Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital, his only action being his involuntary spitting. When a pretty young nurse, just separated from her husband, begins work at the hospital, she senses that Patrick is communicating with her, and he seems to be using his psychic powers to manipulate events in her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
A horrible massacre strikes up after an outcast teenage girl is taunted by a group of high school jocks, all of them unaware of her cutthroat telekinetic powers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Omen (1976)
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Puppet Masters (1994)
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Medusa Touch (1978)
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKilldozer (1974)
A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when a spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisVillage of the Damned (1960)
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Visitor (1979)
An ancient intergalactic warrior arrives on Earth to put a stop to a demonic child's plot to reproduce Satan's next generation of evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBad Dreams (1988)
Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. Years later, the nightmare of Unity Field remains buried in her mind. But when those around Cynthia start killing themselves, and she begins having visions of Harris, she may be forced to confront the past -- before it confronts her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDemon Seed (1977)
A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMurder by Phone (1982)
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Dreamscape (1984)
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGolden Years (1991)
When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisImpulse (1984)
After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Fury?
The closest matches to The Fury are Firestarter (1984), The Sender (1982) and The Dead Zone (1983). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Fury?
People who watched The Fury most often go on to Firestarter (1984), The Sender (1982) and The Dead Zone (1983).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Fury?
The Omen (1976), rated 7.4/10 by 2,555 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Fury?
Patrick (2013) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Fury?
Yes: Firestarter (1984), The Sender (1982) and The Dead Zone (1983).
How are movies similar to The Fury chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Fury, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.