Movies like Scream 1996

If you like "Scream" you are looking for slasher, suspenseful and scary movies about / with serial killer, high school, teenager, psychopath, small town, maniac and masked killer themes of Horror and Mystery genre shot in USA.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Scream (1996)
 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, spoof, bloody, teen, spooky, teen horror ...
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, telephone call, heroine, halloween, whodunit, female protagonist, who done it, mystery killer, obsession, killing spree, violence, brutality, chase, satire ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century, 80s, 1990s
Place: california, usa
Keyword: disgust, attack, challenge, candy

Movie in categories

slasher movies
5054
suspenseful movies
22874
teenager movies
11008
scary movies
7975
psychopath movies
4760
small town movies
5647

Most similar movies to Scream

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, suspenseful, scary and teen horror films with plots about serial killer, killer, murder, blood, survival, psychopath and violence mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Scream: Halloween (1978), Urban Legend (1998), Valentine (2001), Friday the 13th (1980), My Bloody Valentine (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 6.3
 208K
Scream 2 (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two years after the terrifying events that occurred in Woodsboro, Sidney is now attending Windsor College in Cincinnati, and Gale Weathers' best selling book on Sidney's life has now been made into a major motion picture. When two college ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, killer, college, serial murder, mystery killer, villain, strong female lead, blood, murder, psychopath, masked killer, whodunit ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 170K
Scream 4 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, teen horror, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, serial murder, high school, woman in danger, telephone call, gory, psychopath, murder, small town, revenge ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 163K
Scream 3 (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A murdering spree begins to happen again, this time its targeted toward the original Woodsboro survivors and those associated with the movie inside a movie, 'Stab 3'. Sydney must face the demons of her past to stop the killer.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, splatter ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, mystery killer, murder, filmmaking, telephone call, psychopath, mind game, vengeance, hollywood, serial murder, blood ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, y2k, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ 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%
Movie in collections
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%
 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%
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Unfinished business with coed Julie James brings the murderer to the Bahamas to terrorize her and her friends, Karla, Tyrell and Will, during a vacation. Can Ray Bronson who survived a bloody attack alongside Julie two summers ago, get to the island ...
Style: slasher, scary, teen horror, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, murder, voodoo, haunted by the past, resort, survival, danger, woman in danger, hotel, blood, attempted murder, college ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, year 1988
Place: bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 71K
Urban Legend (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at ...
Style: slasher, bloody, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, college, strangulation, serial murder, killer, murder, teenager, blood, gory, gas station, dark and stormy night ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 117K
Scream VI (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
Style: slasher, slasher horror, dark, meta, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, characters killed one by one, mystery killer, characters murdered one by one, killer, murder, fbi agent, sister sister relationship, asthmatic, shrine, father daughter relationship, revenge ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
 30K
Valentine (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, valentine's day, psychopath, murder, revenge, gory, woman in danger, mystery killer, violence against women, danger, school, masked killer ...
Time: year 2001, 80s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 156K
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 ⇓
92%
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned ...
Style: slasher, splatter, suspenseful, scary, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, miner, revenge, valentine's day, killing spree, masked killer, gory, holiday horror, youth, murder, canuxploitation, love triangle ...
Time: 80s, year 1960, year 1980
Place: nova scotia, nova scotia, canada
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
92%
 5.2
 15K
Cherry Falls (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenager, murder, virgin, revenge, father daughter relationship, secret, gang rape, small town, psychopath, sheriff ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: usa, virginia, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.9
 38K
Prom Night (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, though a sadistic killer from her past has different plans for her and her friends.
Style: suspense, slasher, suspenseful, intense, scary ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: obsession, serial killer, high school, stalking, prom, death, blood, haunted by the past, mind game, stalker, best friend, fatal attraction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 5.8
 28K
Cry Wolf (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.
Style: slasher, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, prank, school, death, psycho killer, plot twist, high school, youth, murder mystery, friendship ...
Time: year 2005
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The making of a horror movie takes on a terrifying reality for students at the most prestigious film school in the country in 'Urban Legends: Final Cut', the suspenseful follow up to the smash hit 'Urban Legend'. At Alpine ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, surprise ending, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, murder, college, teenage life, gory, halloween, college life, masked killer, multiple storylines, psychopath, filmmaking ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 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, ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, halloween, masked killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, violence, terror, psycho killer, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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 ⇓
75%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, small town, police investigation, brutality, dead teenager, small town life, haunted by the past, danger, teenage life, social relations ...
Time: year 1946, year 1976, year 2013
Place: texas, arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, intense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: miner, serial killer, mine, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, psychopath, strong violent content, valentine's day, mining town, masked killer, small town, blood ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, babysitter, psychopath, stalking, murder, babysitting, husband wife relationship, maniac, danger, survival, high school student ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 142K
The Strangers (2008)
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, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, serial killer, murder, hostage, masked killer, blood, fear, violence, masked villain, brutality, night ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations ​are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
Style: slasher, suspense, queer horror, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, supernatural, witch, lesbian, serial killer, lgbt, lgbtq, serial murder, terror, brutality, supernatural horror, maniac ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 2020s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.1
 32K
Sorority Row (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, ...
Style: slasher, bloody, suspense, creepy, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, sorority, mystery killer, college life, sociopath, life & death, serial killer, prank, secret, vengeance, twists and turns, prank gone wrong ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their ...
Style: suspense, bloody, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, high school, mystery killer, psychopath, teenage life, youth, friends, murder, teenage sexuality, blood, teenager, brutality ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 116K
Friday the 13th (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: psychopath, gory, masked killer, group of friends, woods, camp, brutality, maniac, danger, massacre, death, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 80s, 2000s
Place: texas, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Scream: The TV Series (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, psychopath, maniac, youth, high school, massacre, characters killed one by one, teenage life, obsession, masked killer ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie