Movies like Horror Express (1994)
The best movies like Horror Express (1994) are Ghost Train (2025), Ghost Mansion (2021) and Three (2002). If Horror Express hooked you with its horror, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Horror Express
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGhost Mansion (2021)7.2/10 from 274 votes
- NewestDust Bunny (2025)Released 2025
- In KoreanGhost Train (2025)Also in Korean
Ghost Train (2025)
Da-kyung, a horror YouTuber desperate for views, uploads a video about the eerie urban legends surrounding Gwanglim Station—the site of the highest number of missing person cases in the country. The video goes viral overnight. Despite everyone's warnings, Da-kyung's thirst for views only grows stronger. But as she digs deeper, she uncovers a shocking secret behind the station…
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhost Mansion (2021)
A horror webtoon writer journeys to a shabby apartment building in search of ideas. The building's caretaker tells him about multiple strange events that happened throughout the building's history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThree (2002)
An anthology consisting of three horror shorts from different Asian directors: Memories by Kim Jee-woon, The Wheel by Nonzee Nimibutr, and Going Home by Peter Chan.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBooks of Blood (2020)
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree... Extremes (2004)
Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a novelist as well as her twin sister.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightmare 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisNever 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPlay 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Entity (1982)
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDust Bunny (2025)
Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster under her bed that she claims ate her family. To protect her, he must battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting that some monsters are real.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cat (2011)
So-yeon suffers from claustrophobia and inherits a Persian cat when its owner dies. She begins having nightmares and people around her begin dying as she searches for the truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSouthbound (2015)
On a desolate stretch of desert highway, weary travelers — two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation — are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales of terror and remorse on the open road.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBody Bags (1993)
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisV/H/S/99 (2022)
A thirsty teenager's home video leads to a series of horrifying revelations, harkening back to the final punk rock analog days of VHS, while taking one giant leap forward into the hellish new millennium.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKiller Toon (2013)
A web-comic artist finds that a series of murders are occurring that have a disturbing resemblance to the images in her work.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisV/H/S/94 (2021)
After the discovery of a mysterious VHS tape, a brutish police SWAT team launches a high-intensity raid on a remote warehouse, only to discover a sinister cult compound whose collection of pre-recorded material uncovers a nightmarish conspiracy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWarning: Do Not Play (2019)
A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Curse of Buckout Road (2017)
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisCampfire Tales (1997)
Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Horror Express?
The closest matches to Horror Express are Ghost Train (2025), Ghost Mansion (2021) and Three (2002). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Horror Express?
Start with Ghost Train (2025), the closest match to Horror Express.
What is the highest-rated movie like Horror Express?
Ghost Mansion (2021), rated 7.2/10 by 274 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Horror Express?
Dust Bunny (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Horror Express?
Yes: Ghost Train (2025), Ghost Mansion (2021) and Three (2002).
How are movies similar to Horror Express chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Horror Express, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.