15 Movies Like Nightmares
Loved Nightmares? 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.
Smile
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
The Jester
A malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
Play Dead
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
Never Let Go
As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
The Jester 2
When teen magician Max crosses paths with the sinister Jester on Halloween night, she must outsmart a supernatural killer whose magic is all too real and whose tricks always end up in blood.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
The Entity
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
Nightbreed
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
Bloodline Killer
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
Play Dead
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
Nightmare Cinema
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
I, Madman
A bookshop clerk starts seeing the disfigured killer from her favorite 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
The Evil
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
Blackwood
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally look to be going Ben's way. Until, that is, he starts to feel that something isn't quite right in the house. Finding himself plagued by spectral visions, Ben becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind a local mystery that appears to be putting the lives of his family in danger
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Nightmares.
The Housemaid
When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Nightmares.