Movies like Pet Sematary

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Pet Sematary (1989)
 6.5
 114K
Pet Sematary (1989)
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 first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, disturbing, frightening, suspenseful, creepy, bloody, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, macabre, stephen king, supernatural horror, indian burial ground, grave robbing, killer child, cemetery, family in danger, murder, supernatural, gory, grief, ghost, creepy child, blood, woods, back from the dead, death, death of son, grave, loss of pet, monster, death of wife, pet cat ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: maine, usa, chicago, new england
Keyword: reboot, attack, oldies, superior, doctors, challenge, candy, retrospective

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Most similar movies to Pet Sematary

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and serious films with plots about paranormal, supernatural, fear, blood, danger, murder and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Pet Sematary: Sleepwalkers (1992), Firestarter (1984), The Omen (2006), Candyman (1992), The Exorcist (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pet Sematary II (1992)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, halloween, stephen king, supernatural, death in the family, burial, bully, small town, chase, gory, cemetery, back from the dead ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: maine, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 98K
Pet Sematary (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Louis Creed, his wife Rachel and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located near their home. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, ...
Style: atmospheric, spooky, scary, psychological, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, supernatural, occult, evil wins, back from the dead, zombie, cat, undead, indian burial ground, pets, macabre, grieving father ...
Time: year 2019
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 24K
Sleepwalkers (1992)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother-and-son team of strange supernatural creatures come to town to seek out a virgin to feed on.
Style: suspense, slasher, sexy, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: incest, supernatural, incestuous relationship, vampire, mother son incest, incestuous sex, monster, sex scene, kidnapping, cat, stephen king, violence ...
Time: 90s
Place: indiana, usa, california, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 37K
Firestarter (1984)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style: scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, psychic, experiment gone awry, creepy child, little girl, psychic power, father daughter relationship, on the run, supernatural ability, danger, government agency ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses ...
Style: anthology, suspenseful, scary, suspense, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witch, transformation, gargoyle, mummy, stephen king, murder, macabre, supernatural, hitman, held captive, child in peril, artist ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 62K
The Omen (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, devil, murder, killer child, devil worship, evil child, antichrist, 666, prophecy, parents and children, hospital, death ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, rome italy, europe, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 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 ⇓
100%
 8.1
 452K
The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style: scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
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The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, haunted, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, supernatural horror, macabre, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1975
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 337K
Insidious (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, macabre, nightmare, fear, ghost, afterlife, demon, evil spirit, nightmare comes true, paranormal activity, psychic ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place: america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 78K
[Rec] 2 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
Style: scary, rough, demonic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, gory, supernatural, found footage, trapped, infection, quarantine, demon, isolation, demonic possession, monster ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 64K
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 (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 ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: supernatural, dream, supernatural horror, murder, nightmare, gory, serial killer, fear, nightmare comes true, high school, sleep deprivation, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style: surreal, psychological, lovecraft, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: insanity, investigation, hallucination, paranoia, gory, supernatural, small town, mind game, mental illness, writers, fear, monster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, distant future
Place: new england, new hampshire, england, europe, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.0
 28K
Creepshow 2 (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a ...
Style: anthology, scary, slasher, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Plot: hit and run, hitchhiker, stephen king, bullying, monster, lake, raft, murder, supernatural, scalping, man eating plant, swimming ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 148K
Carrie (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: bullying, high school, telekinesis, prom, blood, stephen king, mother daughter relationship, humiliation, supernatural ability, teacher, supernatural, social misfits ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Eye (2002)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts. And some of these ghosts are down right unfriendly. So she embarks on a ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing, frightening ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, able to see the dead, blindness, hospital, eye, fear, transplant, woman in danger, supernatural ability, transformation ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 77K
The Dead Zone (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, dark hero, serial killer, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, destiny, macabre, investigation, premonition, murder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 82K
The Fog (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses ...
Style: slasher, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, lighthouse, small town, revenge, ship, blood, radio station, sword, monster, ghost ship, supernatural horror, murder ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, northern california, usa, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Children of the Corn (1984)
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: suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: killer child, folk horror, children, blood, religion, creepy child, supernatural, small town, violence, murder, isolation, child murders an adult ...
Time: 80s
Place: nebraska, usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 19K
The Gate (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three young children accidentally release a horde of nasty, pint-sized demons from a hole in a suburban backyard. What follows is a classic battle between good and evil as the three kids struggle to overcome a nightmarish hell that is literally ...
Style: scary, slasher, satanic, suspense, splatter ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: demon, monster, supernatural, zombie, boy, occult, coming of age, child protagonist, suburbs, suburban life, child in peril, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.6
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Itsy Bitsy (2019)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider.
Style: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, weird
Audience: adult
Plot: giant spider, spider, children, animal attack, monster, killer animal, single mother, macabre, ritual sacrifice, rite, disability, mysticism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 51K
Cujo (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style: tense, suspense, scary, natural horror, serious ...
Plot: dog, rabies, dangerous animal, macabre, boy, monster, stephen king, blood, creature feature, brutality, killer dog, survival ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, danger, death, paranormal activity, domestic disturbance, family in danger, gory, paranormal ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, long island, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.8
 278K
Sinister (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, investigation, evil force, paranormal activity, writer's life ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 60s, year 1966 ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.2
 93K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: cannibalism, desert, gory, blood, cannibal, rape, serial killer, dog, murder, violence, disturbed individual, rape and revenge ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Final Destination (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, death, life & death, survival, characters killed one by one, destiny, danger, group of friends, disaster, freak accident, psychic, gory ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, year 2003, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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