Movies like Nightmares

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Nightmares (1983)
 5.7
 4K
Nightmares (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.
Style: anthology, scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, cult classic, dark fairy tale, cult horror, classic horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, monster, video game, obsession, maniac, virtual reality, priest, multiple storylines, isolation, danger, hidden identity, domestic disturbance, technology, gory, store, rat, supernatural, ghost, killer, virus, demon, killer animal, scientist, truck ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: new jersey
Keyword: dreams

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Most similar movies to Nightmares

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about deadly, danger, supernatural, gory, monster, escapades and creature feature mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Nightmares: Puppetmaster (1989), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), The Cell (2000), Dead Mary (2007), Hell's Highway (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.5
 13K
Puppetmaster (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Toulon, a puppet maker, discovers an ancient Egyptian potion and uses it to bring his creations to life. His puppets become murderous little demons and escape. Distraught, the master takes his life. Years later, psychics tune into the existence of ...
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot: puppet, evil doll, murder, supernatural, doll, deadly creature, killer doll, violence, transformation, puppet master, female nudity, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 80s, year 1939, 1930s
Place: new york, yale university, pacific ocean, california
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100%
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the ...
Style: anthology, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, twist ending ...
Plot: time travel, supernatural, monster, transformation, fictional reality, mentally unstable, mischievous children, evil child, world war two, creepy child, alien, aviation ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, 60s
Place: alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 109K
The Cell (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style: psychological, surreal, psychedelic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, virtual reality, mind game, fbi, investigation, schizophrenia, dream ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
 3K
Dead Mary (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During a fun-filled getaway at a remote lake, teenager Kim (Dominique Swain) and her friends unwittingly unleash a murderous spirit when they make the mistake of playing the game 'Dead Mary' in this horror story. The body count rises as ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: urban legend, youth, psychopath, supernatural, ghost, danger, buddies, mind game, evil witch, isolation, obsession, witch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
 4.1
 780
Hell's Highway (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Four college friends take a fateful road trip. The road, Hell's Highway--a direct route to terror. They pick up Lucinda: A hot young hitchiker, full of sexual deviance and lust for the bloody kill. After being terrorized and nearly killed, the ...
Style: semi serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, ghost, afterlife, supernatural, on the road, danger, psychopath, lesbian rape, gory, redneck, terror, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, apocalypse, creature, police, creature feature, psychopath, danger, mind game, serial killer, plague, race against time, investigation ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.3
 3K
The Nest (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Horrifying shocker as a biological experiment goes haywire when meat-eating mutant roaches invade an island community, terrorizing a peaceful New England fishing village and hideously butchering its citizens.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cockroach, insect, island, killer animal, experiment, creature, monster, experiment gone awry, scientist, dangerous animal, danger, animal attack ...
Time: 80s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Panic in the tower (1990)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A murderous baboon escapes from a laboratory and roams the research building, and begins to kill some teenagers who are also in the building playing a Dungeons-and-Dragons type game.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: animal experimentation, medical school, laboratory, scientist, animal attack, mutant, danger, isolation, captivity, monster, monkey, killer animal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 5.6
 14K
C.H.U.D. (1984)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photo journalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, ...
Style: slasher, scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, police investigation, toxic, gory, creature feature, experiment gone awry, danger, survival, murder, exploitation, creature, mutant ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
It Lives Again (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The monster child returns - but now there are three!
Style: gothic horror, suspense, cult horror, classic horror, mystic ...
Plot: monster, body horror, babies and infants, creepy child, evil child, killer child, creature feature, mutant, baby, pregnancy, psycho, little creatures ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Angels Fallen (2020)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After the tragic loss of his wife battling the forces of darkness, Gabriel is persuaded to rejoin his former team of demon hunters traveling from relatively obscurity in America to the deep unknown regions of Europe. He is joined by his estranged ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, tense ...
Plot: evil, paranormal phenomena, survival, serial killer, blood, torture, monster, paranormal, good versus evil, supernatural power, demon hunter, angel ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.6
 1K
Aberration (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A nature field researcher is investigating the strange extinction of small animals and insects in the area, which indicates that something is wrong. His suspicions are soon to be proven right when he meets May, who lives in a cabin in the forest ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Plot: mutant, lizard, danger, supernatural, dangerous animal, extinction, woods, on the run, woman in danger, evolution, snow, creature feature ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.4
 1K
Psycho Cop (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Officer Joe Vickers would probably make a good policeman if it weren't for his two nasty habits. Firstly, he is a devoted satanist; secondly - he likes to kill people. When he meets a group of teenagers spending their vacation in a wood hut, he ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, survival, youth, danger, violence spree, violence, woods, woman with a gun, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.0
 3K
Parasite (1982)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, alien, bio weapon, danger ...
Time: future, year 1982, year 1992, 90s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The mutant babies have been placed by court order on a deserted island. Appalled by the cynicism and exploitation of the children by the legal system and the media, the man responsible for them leads an expedition to the island to free them.
Style: suspense, scary, rough, disturbing, cult classic ...
Plot: island, mutant, rescue, survival, isolation, mind game, investigation, danger, experiment gone awry, murder, monster, body horror ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: cuba, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.7
 2K
Mosquito Man (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Police lieutenant detective Thomas 'Thom' Randall's steady girl-friend, Dr. Jennifer 'Jen' Allen, is Dr. Aaron Michaels's main assistant on his pharmaceutical firm Bellion's research program to cure the highly ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mosquito, insect, experiment gone awry, monster, supernatural, danger, swat, body horror, virus, transformation, escaped prisoner, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.0
 1K
Bunnyman (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bunnyman is the story of a group of friends on their way back from a spontaneous weekend trip to Las Vegas, and while driving through the remote regions of southern California they suddenly find themselves in a sickening game of cat and mouse with a ...
Style: slasher, scary, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot: gory, psychopath, survival, on the road, danger, escapades, isolation, confined, captivity, profanity, rabbit, bad girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 1.8
 245
Severed (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A ritualistic serial killer is beheading victims all over a city, and those surrounding the case are pulled into his world as they try and stop him.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, psychopath, supernatural, rivalry, who done it, police detective, master criminal, police investigation, private detective, bounty hunter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 4.5
 1K
Deep Space (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Secretly engineered and blasted into space by government scientists, a vile monster crash-lands back on Earth and begins killing everyone it encounters. As the death toll rises, veteran cop McLemore (Charles Napier) bravely steps forward to crush ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, monster, technology gone awry, alien invasion, creature feature, outer space, rescue, mutant, alien encounter, rivalry, danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.0
 929
Jaws of Satan (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A preacher whose ancestors were Druids battles Satan, who has taken the form of a huge snake.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough, natural horror ...
Plot: snake, supernatural, priest, witch, dangerous animal, danger, small town, curses spells and rituals, clergy, cobra, rattlesnake, satan ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 2.8
 447
Dr. Chopper (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Five young friends head out to the country for a weekend at the family cabin and run afoul of a group of motorcycle riding madwomen led by the sadistic, knife-wielding plastic surgeon Dr. Fielding.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, survival, psychopath, obsession, gang, danger, stalking, escapades, youth, isolation, supernatural, mad doctor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.9
 2K
The Rats (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, rat, subway, gory, deadly creature, danger, escapades, hospital, isolation, killer animal, urban ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.1
 5K
Abominable (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A man, crippled in an accident, returns to the woods after rehabilitation, certain that he'll not see Bigfoot again.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, action packed ...
Plot: sasquatch, bigfoot, woods, supernatural, creature, creature feature, survival, danger, legends and myths, monster, deadly creature, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 3.5
 3K
It's Alive (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It's Alive is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film. When a young woman learns that she's pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, mystic ...
Plot: pregnancy, baby, creepy child, supernatural, riddles and clues, woman in labor, danger, disorder, youth, curses spells and rituals, monster, violence ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Graveyard Shift (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, slasher, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rat, supernatural, creature, gory, twists and turns, uncover truth, survival, deadly creature, dangerous animal, rescue, escapades, boss and employee ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: maine, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 3.4
 2K
Sabertooth (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, disturbing ...
Plot: dangerous animal, animal attack, experiment gone awry, killer animal, science runs amok, creature feature, tiger, animal experimentation, danger, gory, killed by an animal, brutality ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.5
 3K
The Boogens (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Otherworldly creatures inhabit the bootleg tunnels underneath a small town mining community, and they kill any of the townsfolk who invade their home.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot: supernatural, deadly creature, creature, gory, danger, social relations, experiment gone awry, escapades, creature feature, winter, snow, monster ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.1
 2K
They Nest (2000)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After freezing up under pressure in the emergency room, Dr. Cahill decides to spend a few months unwinding on a little Maine island where he immediately gets off on the wrong foot with the locals. Meanwhile, a body has washed up on shore infested ...
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: insect, cockroach, mad scientist, rescue, dangerous animal, deadly creature, plague, experiment gone awry, family in danger, isolation, island, doctor ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england, boston, atlantic ocean, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.8
 9K
It's Alive (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Heavily pregnant Lenore Davis tells her husband, Frank, that she is in labor. They leave their eleven year-old son Chris with their friend Charley and they head to the Community Hospital. Lenore feels that something is wrong and delivers a monster ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: supernatural, murder, creepy child, monster, body horror, gory, serial killer, isolation, mutant, investigation, deadly creature, family in danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, california, seattle, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Night of the Scarecrow (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing the descendents of the men who had killed the warlock a century before. A newcomer and the daughter ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, slasher ...
Plot: scarecrow, warlock, deal with the devil, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, evil doll, killer scarecrow, danger, rivalry, mentally unstable, love affair, murder ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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