Movies like Jack-O-Mantern (2024)
The best movies like Jack-O-Mantern (2024) are Night of the Living Dead (1990), The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007) and The Jester: Chapter 3 (2019). If Jack-O-Mantern hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNight of the Living Dead (1990)6.9/10 from 1,042 votes
- NewestThe Jester 2 (2025)Released 2025
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking for new tricks, she finds a little book called "The Evil Thing"
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Jester: Chapter 3 (2019)
On Halloween night, a young girl has no one to go trick-or-treating with....until The Jester offers to tag along.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies 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 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 thisSilver Bullet (1985)
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Hang Up (2016)
An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDangerous Game: The Legacy Murders (2022)
A family reunion at a remote mansion takes a lethal turn when they are trapped inside and forced to play a deadly survival game where only one will make it out alive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wailer (2006)
On their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUncanny Annie (2019)
On Halloween night a group of college students get trapped in a mysterious board game that brings their darkest secrets and fears to life, where they must play to escape…and win to survive.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVicious (2025)
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtinction (2015)
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 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 thisPlay Dead (2022)
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady in White (1988)
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeadsight (2018)
A man with partial blindness and a young pregnant police officer must work together to escape a deadly virus that has spread across Grey County.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Horror House (2012)
On Halloween night, a sorority house is overrun with ghosts, while a vengeful housemother goes on a killing spree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisTrick (2019)
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Corpse for Christmas (2023)
NecroPhiladelphia splatter punks celebrate Christmas with old pagan customs and putrifaction passion.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Territory (2024)
Discovering a territory in the Sierra Nevada mountains that has been shut down since the 1950s because of mysterious disappearances, Loretta leaves to explore, her husband Randy goes in after her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Lizzie Lazarus (2024)
Summer Solstice, 1990, two strangers carry a corpse through the woods looking for a mythical zone they believe will bring the dead body back to life. But what secrets will come back with it?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Playhouse (2005)
The Playhouse follows the story of a young orphan who is picked on by a group of girls at her new school. She then decides to go adventuring off on her own in an abandoned house, but who or what will she find lurking in the shadows of The Playhouse...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Heather and Puggly's Christmas Special (2010)
Heather and Puggly come back for a final fifth installment. This piece of lost media would have had one of Santa's Elves molest Puggly, and it's up to Heather and Puggly to stop the horny elf.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Fear and Desire (2019)
A woman awakens in a remote location to news that the world as she knows it has ended. As she adjusts to her new reality, events unfold and details emerge that may suggest otherwise.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Vexanthrone (2024)
A loner artist, exiled from the art community for creating a sculpture deemed too offensive, embarks on a bizarre odyssey of art, flesh, decomposition, and spiritual ascension. Vexanthrone details the mental and physical difficulties of the creative process in an experimental and surreal fashion that mixes arthouse sensibilities with gross-out body horror.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
El Chupacabra (2003)
After his capture in the wilderness, the legendary, bloodthirsty creature 'Chupacabra' escapes into the city creating mayhem and panic. As they pursue the deadly beast, an animal control officer and scientist realize that a vigilante with his own suspicious motive is also tracking the elusive killer for a mysterious research facility run by Dr. Goodspeed...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Raptor (2001)
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCheerleader Massacre (2003)
Five high school cheerleaders, their coach and a couple of adolescent sex-crazed guys travel to a cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway only to be killed off one by one by an unseen maniac.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Jack-O-Mantern?
The closest matches to Jack-O-Mantern are Night of the Living Dead (1990), The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007) and The Jester: Chapter 3 (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Jack-O-Mantern?
Start with Night of the Living Dead (1990), the closest match to Jack-O-Mantern.
What is the highest-rated movie like Jack-O-Mantern?
Night of the Living Dead (1990), rated 6.9/10 by 1,042 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Jack-O-Mantern?
The Jester 2 (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Jack-O-Mantern?
Yes: Night of the Living Dead (1990), The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007) and The Jester: Chapter 3 (2019).
How are movies similar to Jack-O-Mantern chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Jack-O-Mantern, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.