15 Movies Like Absurd
Loved Absurd? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
#1
Bring Her Back
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Absurd.
#2
Lola's Secret
A young man's dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she has a secret that leads to trouble.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Absurd.
#3
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Absurd.
#4
Terrifier 3
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Absurd.
#5
Halloween
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Absurd.
#6
Cannibal Holocaust
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Absurd.
#7
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Absurd.
#8
Curse of Chucky
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Absurd.
#9
Cult of Chucky
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Absurd.
#10
Suspiria
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Absurd.
#11
Halloween
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Absurd.
#12
Convent of Sinners
Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, are jealous and angry, they want Susanna for themselves, and accuse her of being possessed by the Devil.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Absurd.
#13
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Absurd.
#14
The Holy Boy
A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Absurd.
