Movies like House of Horrors (1946)
The best movies like House of Horrors (1946) are The Raven (1935), The Body Snatcher (1945) and The Lodger (1944). If House of Horrors hooked you with its horror and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFreaks (1932)7.8/10 from 1,361 votes
- NewestDark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)Released 1981
The Raven (1935)
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Body Snatcher (1945)
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Lodger (1944)
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead of Night (1945)
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Amazing Mr. X (1948)
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark man, Alexis, who seems to know all about such things. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and younger sister Janet become enmeshed in the eerie artifices of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper deviltry than he had in mind...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Black Cat (1941)
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Spiral Staircase (1946)
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHorror Island (1941)
A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Black Cat (1934)
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Devil Bat (1940)
Dr. Paul Carruthers is frustrated because he thinks his employers, Mary Heath and Henry Morton, have cheated him out of the company's profits. He decides to get revenge by altering bats to grow twice their normal size and training them to attack when they smell a perfume of his own making. He mixes the perfume into a lotion, which he offers as a gift to Mary and Henry. When they turn up dead, a newspaper reporter decides to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFreaks (1932)
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight Monster (1942)
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrip of the Strangler (1958)
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSon of Frankenstein (1939)
One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Frankenstein (1944)
Deranged scientist, Gustav Niemann, escapes from prison and overtakes the director of a traveling chamber of horrors, soon reviving the infamous Count Dracula, the frozen Frankenstein Monster, and the Wolf Man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night Has Eyes (1942)
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Old Dark House (1932)
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)
Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Frankenstein's unscrupulous colleague, Dr. Bohmer, plans to transplant Ygor's brain so he can rule the world using the monster's body, but the plan goes sour when he turns malevolent and goes on a rampage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisInvisible Ghost (1941)
The town's leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Invisible Ray (1936)
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has already started affecting Rukh. Consumed by paranoia, he begins to suspect that his wife is having an affair. Wild for revenge, Rukh hatches a deadly plot...using his own poisoned body as a weapon to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wolf Man (1941)
After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSon of Dracula (1943)
Carpathian Count Alucard is invited to the U.S. by a young heiress. Her boyfriend and local officials are suspicious of the newcomer, who is interested in the "virile" soil of the new world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Invisible Woman (1940)
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that will make her invisible so that she can use her invisibility to exact revenge on her ex-boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like House of Horrors?
The closest matches to House of Horrors are The Raven (1935), The Body Snatcher (1945) and The Lodger (1944). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after House of Horrors?
People who watched House of Horrors most often go on to The Raven (1935), The Body Snatcher (1945) and The Lodger (1944).
What is the highest-rated movie like House of Horrors?
Freaks (1932), rated 7.8/10 by 1,361 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like House of Horrors?
Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like House of Horrors?
Yes: The Raven (1935), The Body Snatcher (1945) and The Lodger (1944).
How are movies similar to House of Horrors chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside House of Horrors, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.