Movies like A Creepshow Animated Special (2020)
The best movies like A Creepshow Animated Special (2020) are Mad God: Part 2 (2016), Mad God: Part 1 (2014) and The Separation (2003). If A Creepshow Animated Special hooked you with its animation and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMad God (2021)6.8/10 from 614 votes
- NewestDecorado (2025)Released 2025
Mad God: Part 2 (2016)
Part 2 of Animation Legend Phil Tippett's apocalyptic stop-motion descent into the bowels of the unconscious
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & animation
Mad God: Part 1 (2014)
Mad God is a fully practical stop-motion film set in a Miltonesque world of monsters, mad scientists, and war pigs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
The Separation (2003)
The separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
We Are the Strange (2007)
Two outcasts fight for survival in a sinister fantasy world. Their lives are constantly in jeopardy after they're caught in the middle of a deadly battle between bizarre monsters on their way to the ice cream shop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
OPAL (2020)
A curious girl investigates the cries she hears coming from a forbidden house across the street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisNight of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn (2015)
A group of survivors trapped in a New York apartment fight to stay alive against legions of zombies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
To Your Last Death (2019)
In order to save her siblings, a young woman takes on her father and the powerful entity known as Gamemaster, who ensnares humans into diabolical plots while her species gambles on the outcome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Timekeepers of Eternity (2021)
In this mesmerizing experimental film, Stephen King television mini-series The Langoliers is compressed and transformed through hypnotic black and white collage animation that meticulously reconstructs and reshapes its supernatural drama to an eerie and profound effect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Cosmos Laundromat (2015)
On a desolate island, a suicidal sheep named Franck meets his fate…in the form of a quirky salesman named Victor, who offers him the gift of a lifetime. The gift is many lifetimes, actually, in many different worlds – each lasting just a few minutes. In the sequel to the pilot, Franck will find a new reason to live…in the form of a bewitching female adventurer named Tara, who awakens his long-lost lust for life. But can Franck keep up with her?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKorgoth of Barbaria (2006)
In a dark future wasteland, the great cities have risen and fallen, primordial beasts have reclaimed the wilderness and thieves and savages populate sparse, dirty towns. From the frozen north emerges a warrior known as Korgoth, and his merciless savagery may be his only key to survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Abruptio (2024)
Les Hackel is a guy down on his luck who wakes to find an explosive device has been implanted in his neck. He must carry out heinous crimes in order to stay alive while trying to identify the mastermind manipulating the now twisted and strange world around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 (2015)
The fourth instalment in the surreal Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared videos in which the three returning characters enter a sinister digital world through their computer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWait, Wait, Don't Kill Me (2020)
On the hottest day of the year, an unknown virus spreads throughout inner-city Philadelphia. The infected victims, crazed by dehydration, begin attacking other residents of the neighborhood in gruesome ways. When the military is brought in to contain the situation, but realize they can't come up with a vaccine quickly enough, they fence off the area and let everyone die. A group of locals, stuck in the basement of their building, behind the fences, and separated from their family members, band together to try to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & animation
From Inside (2008)
Cee, a young pregnant woman, finds herself on a damaged train slowly transcribing its way across a bleak, apocalyptic landscape. Flood, war, starvation, and a plague of death threaten the train's passengers. Cee struggles through these dangers while coping with the memory of her lost husband and the imminent birth of her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Decorado (2025)
Arnold, an unemployed middle-aged mouse, confides to his wife Maria that he suspects his entire world is nothing more than a set, and his life a scripted performance. When his best friend Ramiro dies under mysterious circumstances, he traces the conspiracy to a monolithic corporation whose influence reaches every corner of their daily lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Consuming Spirits (2012)
Three residents of a small Rust Belt town lead sad, interconnected lives full of social service intervention, foster care, romance, and hatred.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993)
A boy born the size of a small doll is kidnapped by a genetic lab and must find a way back to his father in this inventive adventure filmed using stop motion animation techniques.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Tales from the Far Side (1994)
A series of Gary Larson's "Far Side" gags are turned into short animated gags, such as a Frankenstein cow; an insect airline's in-flight movie; deers, hunters, and ufos; wolf home-movies; egg horror flicks; and cowboys & aliens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Kuso (2017)
Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDon't Hug Me I'm Scared (2012)
A disturbing puppet short exploring the concept of creativity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Hug Me I'm Scared 5 (2015)
The two remaining puppets learn about eating healthy, but things go awry when they receive a mysterious phone call.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Apostle (2012)
A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIdiots and Angels (2008)
Angel, a selfish rotter is hanging around in a local bar, groping the wife of the barman and dealing with weapons. One morning he wakes up finding a pair of wings growing at his back. These wings do good deeds against his nature. But suddenly he finds himself fighting those who want these wings for their own dark plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlatland²: Sphereland (2012)
Set on the eve of Flatland's first mission into their 'outer-space,' the story presents the intriguing mysteries of triangles with angle sums greater than 180 degrees and flipping into dimensions that are literally out of this world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
The Spine of Night (2021)
When ancient dark magic falls into sinister hands and unleashes ages of suffering onto mankind, a group of heroes from different eras and cultures must band together in order to defeat it at all costs.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead Space: Downfall (2008)
On a deep space mining mission to a remote planet, an ancient religious relic - thought to be proof of the existence of God - is unearthed and brought aboard. When the unholy artifact unleashes a long-dormant alien race, its glimpse of Heaven transforms the ship into a living Hell. A prequel to the events of the 2008 video game Dead Space.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMad God (2021)
A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaylight's End (2016)
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Resurrected (1991)
Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAzrael (2024)
In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Creepshow Animated Special?
The closest matches to A Creepshow Animated Special are Mad God: Part 2 (2016), Mad God: Part 1 (2014) and The Separation (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Creepshow Animated Special?
People who watched A Creepshow Animated Special most often go on to Mad God: Part 2 (2016), Mad God: Part 1 (2014) and The Separation (2003).
What is the highest-rated movie like A Creepshow Animated Special?
Mad God (2021), rated 6.8/10 by 614 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Creepshow Animated Special?
Decorado (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like A Creepshow Animated Special?
Yes: Mad God: Part 2 (2016), Mad God: Part 1 (2014) and The Separation (2003).
How are movies similar to A Creepshow Animated Special chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Creepshow Animated Special, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.