Movies like Are You Scared (2006)
The best movies like Are You Scared (2006) are The Human Race (2013), Game of Death (2017) and Heartstopper (2006). If Are You Scared hooked you with its action and 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 1,983 votes
- NewestGhost in the Cell (2026)Released 2026
The Human Race (2013)
A cancer survivor, an amputee, several immigrants, and many others are snatched from a Los Angeles street and forced to take part in a deadly race.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisGame of Death (2017)
Kill or be killed is the golden rule of the Game of Death. Sucks for seven millennials who ignored that rule. Now each one's head will explode unless they kill someone. Will they turn on each other to survive, or will this sunny day be the last for the innocent people of their middle-of-nowhere town?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHeartstopper (2006)
Two hospitalized young people discover that things can get even worse when the dilapidated institution is stranded by a severe storm and a maniac stalks the corridors butchering the patients and staff.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Dead Tone (2007)
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSee No Evil (2006)
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel but little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain band together to survive against the brutal killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Killing Jar (2010)
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Million (2009)
8 contestants compete for $1,000,000 on a survival reality TV show set in the Australian desert. After the first eliminated contestant is found dead, they find themselves in horrifying situations as they deal with each others' lies and deceits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Hills Run Red (2009)
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHouse of 9 (2005)
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisExit Speed (2008)
On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas and are forced off the road by a motorcycle gang. The passengers then take refuge in an abandoned scrap yard. When their defense against the gang weakens and their numbers dwindle they must do the unthinkable go on the offense.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisKill Theory (2009)
While celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisStorm Warning (2007)
A couple becomes lost in a massive storm and seek refuge at a nearby farmhouse, only to be captured by deranged killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPanic Button (2011)
Four young people have won a trip with their favorite social network. On board the private plane that took them to New York, they are invited to participate in an in-flight entertainment: a new online gaming experience. Trapped at 30,000 feet, they will play for their lives and those of their families. They will discover the hard way that putting your life online can have dire consequences...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHouse of Fears (2007)
The night before a local haunted house opens for Halloween, six friends sneak in for a few hours of fun. Soon after entering, they find themselves trapped inside with no way out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
P2 (2007)
A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisElevator (2013)
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon becomes the only reasonable solution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWrong 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: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like this47 Hours to Live (2019)
Two socially awkward teenage girls, are bored one night and turn to the internet for scary stories. They find a game on a creepy website that claims you can use your phone to summon the supernatural...and if you lose the game...you lose your life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like this4Closed (2013)
When a young family moves into a foreclosed house, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidation and terror. The deranged man will stop at nothing to get his home back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Gravedancers (2006)
After a night of drunken exploits, Allison, Harris, and Kira are chased and terrorized by the ghosts of a child pyromaniac, an ax murderer, and a rapist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisReady or Not (2012)
A new reality television show chooses six contestants to travel to a secluded mansion to compete for one million dollars. The game is Hide-and-Seek. But the rules change when one contestant is found murdered by the very cameraman who was sent to record their every move. The players realize that this is no game. It's a real life horror film and they are the stars. What began as a contest for quick fame and easy fortune becomes a battle for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Unrest (2006)
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisGhost in the Cell (2026)
In a notorious prison, an invisible force begins killing inmates brutally, compelling enemy gangs and corrupt guards to work together as they try to survive the mounting bloodshed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWalled In (2009)
Having finally secured her first assignment from her family's demolition business, Sam Walczak is sent to supervise the destruction of an apartment house, only to discover a group of tenants still living in the condemned building. One such tenant, Jimmy, tells Sam an urban legend about a serial murderer who used to live in the building and entomb his victims in the walls. What's worse, the dead are believed to still harass the residents to this day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Belko Experiment (2017)
A group of eighty American workers are locked in their office and ordered by an unknown voice to participate in a twisted game.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hunt (2020)
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHunted (2021)
A woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & 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 thriller & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJigsaw (2017)
Law enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabolical new game that's only just begun.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEscape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive... and discovering they've all played the games before.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Are You Scared?
The closest matches to Are You Scared are The Human Race (2013), Game of Death (2017) and Heartstopper (2006). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Are You Scared?
People who watched Are You Scared most often go on to The Human Race (2013), Game of Death (2017) and Heartstopper (2006).
What is the highest-rated movie like Are You Scared?
Grindhouse (2007), rated 7.0/10 by 1,983 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Are You Scared?
Ghost in the Cell (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Are You Scared?
Yes: The Human Race (2013), Game of Death (2017) and Heartstopper (2006).
How are movies similar to Are You Scared chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Are You Scared, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.