Movies like Maria (2026)

Nightmare Cinema (2018)

A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

MaXXXine (2024)

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Saccharine (2026)

After succumbing to an obscure weight-loss craze involving the eating of human ashes, lovelorn medical student Hana finds herself haunted by the ghost of the person she's eating.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

The 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

Never Let Go (2024)

As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Grindhouse (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

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

Play Dead (2025)

A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

The 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

Reborn (2018)

A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying violent destruction and chilling chaos behind her.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)

Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish showdown when each realizes they are being hunted by an inbred family of cannibals determined to make them all dinner!

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

The 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

V/H/S/2 (2013)

Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But you must fight the urge to relax: this is no mere movie night. Those obsolete spools contain more than just magnetic tape. They are imprinted with the very soul of evil.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Hellraiser (1987)

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Trick (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

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

The Inhabitant (2022)

Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

The Strangers (2008)

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)

After witnessing his parents' brutal murder on Christmas Eve, Billy transforms into a Killer Santa, delivering a yearly spree of calculated, chilling violence. This year, his blood-soaked mission collides with love, as a young woman challenges him to confront his darkness.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Vela (2023)

Young Xime hopes to restore her grieving family by arranging a Día de Los Muertos altar...meanwhile a looming presence closes in.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale (2018)

While sorting her dead grandmother's affairs, a young woman boards in a southern mansion and soon discovers the matriarch may desire more than just her company.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Willard (1971)

A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Negativ (2023)

A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Ben (1972)

A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Infernal Gluttony (2010)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

The Vampire Bat (1933)

In the superstitious European village of Kleinschloss, a wave of mysterious deaths take place where victims are found with neck wounds that elders and superstitious locals blame on vampires or bats.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

easybake (2024)

After consuming a clay sculpture, an insecure teen wakes with the ability to sculpt her own body, leading to an obsessive pursuit of "perfection".

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Smile (2022)

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Mother Duck (2026)

A self-perceived failing mother yearns for a connection with her son, only to find it even more challenging when he forms an inseparable bond with a duckling.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror