Movies like Halloween 2018

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Halloween (2018)
 6.5
 168K
Halloween (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This film, the 11th film in the "Halloween" series, will ignore the events of all previous sequels, picking up 40 years after the events of the original film.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, tense, spooky, retro ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, halloween, masked killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, violence, terror, psycho killer, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, evil, masked villain, boogeyman, babysitter, stalker, murderer, escaped killer, husband wife relationship, killing spree, murder, holiday horror, fear, survival, blood ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
Keyword: reboot, signature, visit, british horror, challenge, trunk

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Most similar movies to Halloween

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, slasher, scary and suspense films with plots about serial killer, murder, psychopath, violence, killer, blood and gore mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Halloween: Friday the 13th Part III (1982), Scream (1996), Hush (2016), Bad Samaritan (2018), Scream (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Halloween Kills (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, slasher horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, killing spree, psycho, halloween, evil, gory, violence, holiday horror, maniac, psycho killer ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 2010s, year 1978, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 305K
Halloween (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, holiday horror, small town, psychiatrist, babysitter, violence, violent, babysitting ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the ...
Style: slasher, scary, teen, creepy, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, monster, school, high school, holiday horror, masked killer, faked death, serial teen killer, halloween party, van, killer ...
Time: 90s, y2k, 20th century, year 1998
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The legend of that creepy masked-man, Michael Myers, comes to life once again in this fourth installment of the successful horror franchise. This time, it's Michael's niece, Jamie, who can't seem to escape her crazy uncle. With ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, splatter, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, halloween, masked killer, murder, masked villain, small town, blood, teenager, holiday horror, escaped mental patient, monster, supernatural ...
Time: 80s, year 1988
Place: illinois, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.5
 101K
Halloween II (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, holiday horror, psycho killer, masked killer, masked villain, male nudity, american horror, monster, stalking ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naive counselors. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason who stalks them at every turn.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, masked killer, summer camp, gory, murder, friday the 13th, killing spree, woods, psychopath, nudity, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Presumed dead after a shoot-out with the Haddonfield police, Michael Myers is secretly nursed back to health -- and returns a year later to kill again and once more targets his young niece, Jamie. Jamie is now recovering in the local children's ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, halloween, supernatural, masked villain, monster, holiday horror, murder, massacre, hospital, gory, obsession, kitten ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Determined to finish off the infamous killer Jason Voorhees once and for all, Tommy Jarvis and a friend exhume Jason’s corpse in order to cremate him. Things go awry when Jason is instead resurrected, sparking a new chain of ruthlessly brutal ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, classic horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, monster, friday the 13th, summer camp, supernatural, masked killer, woods, camp, serial killer, murder, blood, maniac ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, murder, teenager, serial teen killer, mental illness, torture, hospital, nudity, killer, masked killer ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 386K
Scream (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenager, psychopath, small town, maniac, masked killer, murder, woman in danger, teenage life, twists and turns, violent ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.6
 153K
Hush (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, trapped, home invasion, survival, deaf, female protagonist, deafness, violence, masked killer, brutality, murder, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 26K
Bad Samaritan (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, home invasion, captive, investigation, violence, sadism, psycho killer, obsession, held captive, murder, sadist ...
Place: portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 157K
Scream (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Style: slasher, suspense, slasher horror, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: masked killer, serial killer, characters killed one by one, homicidal maniac, mystery killer, sister sister relationship, psychopath, whodunit, murder mystery, killing spree, gory violence, threatening telephone call ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 21K
Prom Night (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, suspense, sexy, bloody ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, serial killer, teenager, masked killer, prom, revenge, murder, teenage sex, high school prom, bullying, prom queen, sexual predator ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2016, year 1980, 20th century ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Halloween: Resurrection (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Serial Killer Michael Myers is not finished with Laurie Strode, and their rivalry finally comes to an end. But is this the last we see of Myers? Freddie Harris and Nora Winston are reality programmers at DangerTainment, and are planning to send a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, masked killer, psychopath, monster, murder, maniac, survival, vengeance, violence, internet, blood ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.9
 36K
P2 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: obsession, survival, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, escape attempt, maniac, danger, stalker, hostage, stalking, torment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 7K
Dark Ride (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, mental institution, homicidal maniac, amusement park, murder, masked killer, serial killer, youth, gory, blood, violence, on the road ...
Time: year 2003, year 1989, year 1990
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, police investigation, killer, brutality, violence, misfit, freak, exploitation, psychopath, psycho, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, danger, chase, wedding, psychopath, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 130K
Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Never Hike Alone (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story: A hiker's survival skills is put to the test when he stumbles upon the remains of an old abandoned camp and discovers its long dark secrets.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough, spooky ...
Plot: homicidal maniac, serial killer, psychopath, masked man, murder, danger, running, survival horror, murderer, summer camp, violence, fight ...
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After the Crystal Lake Massacres, Jason is pronounced dead and taken to the hospital morgue, where he is mysteriously revived, allowing his diabolical killing spree to continue at the camp where the gruesome slaughtering began. But this time, in ...
Style: slasher, scary, splatter, grindhouse, bloody ...
Audience: teens, manly
Plot: serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, murder, serial teen killer, camp, summer camp, torture, death, teenager, masked killer, monster ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 138K
Green Room (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence.
Style: suspense, tension, bleak, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: skinhead, survival, murder, brutality, violence, punk, friendship, punk band, escape, neo nazi, revenge, heroin ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place: oregon, portland oregon, astoria oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, male nudity, murder, serial killer, revenge, sex maniac, red light district, serial rape, criminal, vigilantism, psychopath, nudity ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 70K
Halloween Ends (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Four years after the traumatic events of Halloween in 2018, the nightmare ends as Laurie Strode comes face to face with Michael Myers, once and for all.
Style: slasher, scary, slasher horror, bloody, sinister ...
Plot: halloween, killing spree, serial killer, homicidal maniac, babysitter, radio station, junkyard, radio dj, holiday horror, death of son, grandmother granddaughter relationship, masked killer ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style: slasher, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, gory, crazy, psycho killer, lake, maniac, serial murder, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.5
 19K
Hell Fest (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On Halloween night at a horror theme park, a costumed killer begins slaying innocent patrons who believe that it's all part of the festivities.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: amusement park, halloween, masked killer, serial killer, psycho, group of friends, maniac, psychopath, killings, homicidal maniac, killing spree, disturbed individual ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 100K
Candyman (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style: scary, slasher, gothic, bloody, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, gory, macabre, belief, urban decay, investigation, blood, revenge, mirror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.8
 60K
Halloween II (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Micheal's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois; meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: halloween, murderer, murder, serial killer, gory, hospital, insanity, serial murder, extreme violence, holiday horror, death, brutality ...
Time: year 2009
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 31K
Psycho II (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, splatter ...
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, psychiatrist, psycho, mental illness, employer employee relationship, female nudity, police station ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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