Movies like Candyman
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Candyman (1992)
109K
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, bloody, frightening, creepy, gothic, suspenseful, cult horror, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, revenge, urban decay, belief, folklore, supernatural, macabre, investigation, ghost, legend, violence against women, accused of murder, blood, reincarnation, graffiti, fire, evil spirit, female protagonist, rottweiler, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, time machine, disfigurement, bee ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, 1990s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
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Most similar movies to Candyman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, slasher, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about murder, death, blood, gory, macabre, danger and violence mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Candyman: Dead Silence (2007), Candyman: Day of the Dead (1999), Lord of Illusions (1995), Curse of Chucky (2013), House on Haunted Hill (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
83K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his ...
Style:
scary, suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, strong violent content, murder, gay brother, urban decay, art exhibition, candyman, african american, supernatural, vengeful ghost, mirror, revenge ...
Time:
2020s, year 2019, year 1977, 2010s, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Candyman moves on to New Orleans and starts his horrific murders once more. This time, his intended victim is a school teacher. Her father was killed by the Candyman, and brother wrongly accused of the murders.
Style:
slasher, creepy, bloody, scary, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer, serial killer, supernatural, urban legend, ghost, blood, violence, murder, candyman, mardi gras, vengeance, gory ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, usa, southern usa, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
108K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, doll, ventriloquist, macabre, small town, clown, investigation, supernatural horror, puppet, supernatural, plot twist, danger ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, sexy, scary, splatter, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, halloween, holiday horror, masked killer, masked villain, small town, teenager, murder, crime spree, blood, monster, supernatural ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
illinois, chicago
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Candyman returns to try to convince his female descendent, an artist, to join him as a legendary figure. To this end, he frames her for a series of hideous murders of her friends and associates so that she has nowhere else to turn to.
Style:
slasher, scary, classic horror, horrifying, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, candyman, supernatural, ghost, day of the dead, blonde, art, bee, black, pandemic, eye ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Style:
dark, scary, neo noir, homoerotic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, private detective, occult, fanatic, faked death, magic, investigation, desert, resurrection, tough guy, telekinesis, demon ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1982
Place:
los angeles, mojave desert, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After the passing of her mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
killer doll, doll, serial killer, evil doll, psychopath, violence, supernatural, dark humor, chucky, supernatural horror, disability, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 1988, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style:
scary, slasher, gothic, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, gory, mental institution, survival, danger, haunted by the past, murder, ghost, evil spirit, isolation ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, bloody, splatter, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural horror, violence, destiny, a vision, survival, danger, cheating death, death, blood, creativity, precognition, gory ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, home invasion, trap, psychopath, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, terror, psycho killer ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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 (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
murder, supernatural, supernatural horror, nightmare, fear, dream, serial killer, gory, sleep deprivation, teenager, nightmare comes true, high school ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
ohio, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, survival, torture, fear, rape, victim, human monster, brutality, stranded, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Similarity:
100%
505K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
scary, slasher, brutal, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, revenge, psychopath, torture, murder, kidnapping, serial killer, violence, vengeance, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
Similarity:
100%
156K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, masked killer, murder, hostage, brutality, blood, masked man, violence, masked villain, killer ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, classic horror, bloody, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friday the 13th, woods, monster, summer camp, gory, masked man, maniac, camping, masked killer, supernatural, camp, murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, america, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dr. Feinstone has everything, a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry; but when he discovers his wife's affair, he realizes that behind every clean, white surface lies the stench of decay.
Style:
medical horror, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
psycho killer, medical, psychopath, voyeurism, dentist, voyeur, murder, infidelity, serial killer, graphic violence, adultery, victim ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
100%
123K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At ...
Style:
scary, tense, frightening, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, macabre, stephen king, indian burial ground, supernatural horror, grave robbing, killer child, cemetery, back from the dead, death, creepy child, ghost ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, chicago, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, splatter, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, gory, kidnapping, masked killer, trap, torture, massacre, sadistic horror, serial murder, survival, maniac, mysterious villain ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
Style:
slasher, independent film, suspense, scary, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, cannibalism, cannibal, masked man, desert, gory, maniac, masked killer, escape, violent, survival, murder ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, california, florida
Similarity:
100%
147K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all the loose ends.
Style:
psychological, brutal, slasher, disturbing, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, torture, game of death, violent, trap, kidnapping, blood, gory, killer, violence, escape attempt, race against time ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
153K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, ...
Style:
scary, gothic, frightening, sexy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
body horror, macabre, demon, supernatural horror, brutality, gory, human sacrifice, cursed object, surrealism, sadomasochism, sex horror, undead ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.
Style:
splatter, disturbing, atmospheric, surreal, gothic ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, occult, radio station, devil, violent, losing-it hero, spell, curse, radio, radio dj, burned alive ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
salem massachusetts, new england, usa, massachusetts, boston ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
creepy, slasher, demonic, cult horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
violence, folk horror, killer child, small town, religion, creepy child, stephen king, children, blood, murder, devil, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
Similarity:
100%
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, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, halloween, masked man, holiday horror, killer, supernatural, masked villain, massacre, monster, murder, pitchfork, kitten ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
illinois, chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after ...
Style:
slasher, creepy, scary, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, masked man, murder, masked killer, violent, supernatural, gory, torture, blood, hospital, violence ...
Time:
90s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1995, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style:
suspense, grindhouse, splatter, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, rape, rape and revenge, revenge, brutality, sex, macabre, sexual abuse, cruelty, violence, sexualized violence, female vigilante ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, england, europe, germany, new england ...
Similarity:
100%
152K
Genre: Horror, 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, bleak, dark, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
skinhead, murder, violence, brutality, survival, friendship, punk, punk band, neo nazi, killed by a dog, violent, revenge ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place:
oregon, portland oregon, astoria oregon
Similarity:
100%
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