Movies like Return to Horror Hotel (2019)
The best movies like Return to Horror Hotel (2019) are Body Bags (1993), Terror Tract (2000) and Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge (2022). If Return to Horror Hotel 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 ratedRe-Animator (1985)7.1/10 from 1,773 votes
- NewestTotally Killer (2023)Released 2023
Body 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: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerror Tract (2000)
A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're looking at.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge (2022)
Following the events of the original with the survivors attending the funeral of “Rad Chad” Buckley, which quickly devolves into an elaborate series of death traps centered around Chad’s favorite films, forcing the guests to band together and use the rules of horror to survive the bloody game.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Borrower (1991)
Aliens punish one of their own by sending him to earth. The alien is very violent, and when the body he occupies is damaged, he is forced to find another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisLocker 13 (2014)
The story of Skip, a young ex-convict who takes a position as a night janitor at an old-west theme park. His supervisor Archie, teaches him the ropes, but more importantly attempts to convey critical philosophical messages through a series of four stories: a down and out boxer is given the opportunity to become a real golden gloves killer; an assassin kidnaps three people in order to find out who hired him for his latest hit; a new recruit is initiated into a lodge of fez-wearing businessmen where hazing can take a malevolent turn; and a member of a suicide club introduces real fear into a man about to jump to his death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Dead of Night (1977)
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisNecronomicon (1993)
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisScare Package (2019)
Chad Buckley is super crazy about horror movies, but also very lonely. He mostly spends his days in his small movie shop having wild discussions with his only returning customer, Sam.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAsylum (1972)
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHorror Noire (2021)
An anthology film presenting six short horror stories from black writers and directors, featuring racist vampires, supernatural creatures, and Satan his damn self.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCreepshow (1982)
Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mortuary Collection (2020)
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrick 'r Treat (2007)
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlack Friday (2021)
A group of toy store employees must protect each other from a horde of parasite infected shoppers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeyond Re-Animator (2003)
Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Monster Club (1981)
A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisUseless Humans (2021)
A thirtieth birthday -- and the survival of mankind -- are left hanging in the balance after a mysterious creature crashes the party, forcing four childhood friends to save the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Campfire Tales (1997)
Anthology of famous, scary urban legends done with a modern twist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisRe-Animator (1985)
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdult Swim Yule Log (2022)
Get in the holiday spirit with this cozy, crackling fire.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPsycho Goreman (2020)
Siblings Mimi and Luke unwittingly resurrect an ancient alien overlord. Using a magical amulet, they force the monster to obey their childish whims, and accidentally attract a rogues’ gallery of intergalactic assassins to small-town suburbia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNekrotronic (2018)
A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the internet.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBrain Damage (1988)
Brian comes under the addictive spell of a parasite with the ability to induce euphoric hallucinations in its hosts.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTotally Killer (2023)
When the infamous "Sweet Sixteen Killer" returns 35 years after his first murder spree to claim another victim, 17-year-old Jamie accidentally travels back in time to 1987, determined to stop the killer before he can start.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShivers (1975)
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Asphyx (1972)
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Return to Horror Hotel?
The closest matches to Return to Horror Hotel are Body Bags (1993), Terror Tract (2000) and Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Return to Horror Hotel?
People who watched Return to Horror Hotel most often go on to Body Bags (1993), Terror Tract (2000) and Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Return to Horror Hotel?
Re-Animator (1985), rated 7.1/10 by 1,773 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Return to Horror Hotel?
Totally Killer (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Return to Horror Hotel?
Yes: Body Bags (1993), Terror Tract (2000) and Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge (2022).
How are movies similar to Return to Horror Hotel chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Return to Horror Hotel, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.