Movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street

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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
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 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 (Johnny Depp), must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, disturbing, demonic, creepy, dark, spooky ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, dream, supernatural horror, murder, nightmare, gory, serial killer, fear, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, teenager, american horror, maniac, evil wins, blood, teenage girl, monster, revenge, terror, burned alive, trapped, serial murder, violent, nightmare on elm street ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place: ohio, usa, canada
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Most similar movies to A Nightmare on Elm Street

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, scary, suspenseful and spooky films with plots about violence, blood, serial killer, murder, gory, gore and deadly mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street: New Nightmare (1994), The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), Phantasm (1979), Halloween II (1981), Friday the 13th (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only ...
Style: slasher, scary, queer horror, creepy, surreal ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: high school, gay, serial killer, monster, gay subtext, homoeroticism, revenge, nightmare on elm street, gory, supernatural horror, nudity, blood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1989
Place: usa, midwest, ohio
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New Nightmare (1994)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this meta horror film, a demonic entity uses the fictional character of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world and torment "Elm Street" heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, psychopath, filmmaking, blood, serial killer, monster, nightmare on elm street, hospital, alternate reality, supernatural horror, murder, writers ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with ...
Style: slasher, scary, surreal, suspense, bloody ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, murder, supernatural, nightmare, dream, dead teenager, sleep disorder, trapped, serial murder, nightmare on elm street, nightmare comes true ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: los angeles, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. ...
Style: slasher, scary, splatter, classic horror, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, amnesia, monster, dream, blood, nightmare on elm street, vengeance, human monster, husband murders wife, serial teen killer, murder ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, 1950s, 60s, 70s ...
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An 18-year-old high school girl is left at home by her parents and decides to have a slumber party. Meanwhile, a mass murderer with a propensity for power tools has escaped from prison, and eventually makes his way to the party where the guests ...
Style: slasher, scary, grindhouse, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, teenager, murder, high school, gory, psychopath, women, blood, massacre, 18 year old, nudity, camp ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: venice california, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ 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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Phantasm (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style: scary, atmospheric, slasher, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, tall man, small town, funeral, cemetery, supernatural, monster, investigation, murder, mausoleum, hearse, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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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%
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Friday the 13th (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, maniac, gory, murder, revenge, disturbed individual, summer, summer camp, psychopath, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen, who can draw others into her dreams, wills her special ability to her friend Alice. Alice ...
Style: slasher, scary, surreal, splatter, bloody ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, high school, serial killer, monster, time loop, nightmare on elm street, murder, asthma, blood, cheerleader, nudity, nightmare comes true ...
Time: year 1991, 80s
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alice, having survived the previous installment of the Nightmare series, finds the deadly dreams of Freddy Krueger starting once again. This time, the taunting murderer is striking through the sleeping mind of Alice's unborn child. His ...
Style: slasher, scary, grindhouse, bloody, classic horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, comic book, nightmare on elm street, supernatural, vengeance, murder, gory, blood, psycho terror, child killer, serial teen killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1992, 1940s
Place: ohio, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.3
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The Burning (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: prank, serial killer, summer camp, stalking, revenge, survival, murder, lake, maniac, camp, voyeurism, youth ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
75%
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad ...
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, dark, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, macabre, supernatural, serial killer, demon, chase, scarecrow, dead teenager, deadly creature, characters murdered one by one, scared, death ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ 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%
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: As they celebrate their high school graduation, four friends are involved in a hit-and-run accident when their car hits and apparently kills a pedestrian on an isolated roadway. They dispose of the body and vow to keep the incident a secret, a year ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, creepy, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: serial killer, youth, murder, hidden truth, blood, urban legend, characters killed one by one, psychopath, small town, teenager, secret, high school ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1997, 20th century
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate the unstoppable Jason Vorhees into hacking up the teenagers of Elm Street in an effort to make people remember the name Freddy Krueger, thus freeing him from limbo.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, sadistic, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, blood, monster, gory, two killers, teenager, murder, violence, brutality, danger, demon, friday the 13th ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, year 1973, year 1957, 21st century
Place: ohio, new jersey, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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%
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young girl who possesses the power of telekinesis accidentally causes her father's death after a family dispute at Crystal Lake. Years later, when a doctor tries to exploit her abilities, her power becomes a hellish curse, and she unwittingly ...
Style: scary, slasher, bloody, classic horror, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, telekinesis, gory, murder, supernatural, friday the 13th, camp, nudity, summer camp, psychic power, psionic power, monster ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: monster, dream, murder, nightmare comes true, gory, serial killer, terror, torture, danger, serial murder, youth, surrealism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.3
 601K
It (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, spooky, slasher ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: killer clown, supernatural horror, clown, evil clown, small town, stephen king, fear, monster, coming of age, child, missing person, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1989, 2010s, year 2017, 80s, year 1988
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.5
 18K
Shocker (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
Style: slasher, sadistic, splatter, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, police investigation, gory, malice, monster, obsession, evil, reincarnation, blood, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, year 1989
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
Style: scary, gothic, satanic, suspense, surreal ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: coven, murder, witch, supernatural, boarding school, witchcraft, gory, conspiracy, dancer's life, serial killer, occult, ballet school ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
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Fright Night (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent ...
Style: scary, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, monster, supernatural horror, blood, mysterious character, neighbor, teenager, gory, bloodsucker, brutality, werewolf ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 130K
Halloween (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: halloween, psychopath, serial killer, masked killer, gory, sadistic psychopath, blood, monster, torture, bullying, teenage life, holiday horror ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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%
The Final Terror (1983)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of friends and their girlfriends head out for what is expected to be a vacation of hiking, camping and a good time, but when a backwoods mama finds them on her turf, it becomes anything but a vacation.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fugitives, backwoods, murder, psychopath, woods, stalking, serial killer, youth, camp, gory, insanity, rage ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, southern california
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, black comedy, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot: child abuse, serial killer, home invasion, kidnapping, cannibalism, disturbed individual, rottweiler, murder, incest, cannibal, child in peril, guard dog ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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