A Nightmare on Elm Street

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Horror

If you loved A Nightmare on Elm Street, you'll love these similar films. Handpicked based on shared themes, genre, and feel.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987 ★ 6.7

A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

1988 ★ 5.9

Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.

Haunt

Haunt

2019 ★ 6.7

On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.

The Children

The Children

2008 ★ 6.1

A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day

2010 ★ 6.5

Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.

Mirrors

Mirrors

2008 ★ 6.3

An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Terrifier 3

Terrifier 3

2024 ★ 6.8

Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare. The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.

Barbarian

Barbarian

2022 ★ 6.8

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

Halloween

Halloween

1978 ★ 7.6

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Becky

Becky

2020 ★ 6.3

A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

Dagon

Dagon

2001 ★ 6.2

A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a monstrous god of the sea...and Dagon's unholy offspring are on the loose...

Ghostland

Ghostland

2018 ★ 7.4

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

Cult of Chucky

Cult of Chucky

2017 ★ 5.8

Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family... until a string of grisly deaths occur after her psychiatrist introduces a new group therapy tool -- a "Good Guy" doll.

Fear Street: 1994

Fear Street: 1994

2021 ★ 6.7

After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

Freddy vs. Jason

Freddy vs. Jason

2003 ★ 6.1

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

Nightmare Cinema

Nightmare Cinema

2018 ★ 5.8

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.

The Curse of Buckout Road

The Curse of Buckout Road

2017 ★ 6.5

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.

Halloween

Halloween

2007 ★ 6.2

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2003 ★ 6.3

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

Daddy's Head

Daddy's Head

2024 ★ 6.0

A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.

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