Movies like Salem's Lot 2024
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Salem's Lot (2024)
40K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A writer travels to a town where the people become vampires.
Style:
surprise ending, gothic, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic, grindhouse, spooky, f word
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, child vampire, stephen king, vampire, childhood, supernatural power, crucifix, virus, supernatural, priest, disease, supernatural horror, religious conflict, literary, survival, teenager, school, escape, violence, writers, plague, hostage, kidnapping, morgue, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
maine, jerusalem
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Most similar movies to Salem's Lot
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychotronic, surprise ending and scary films with plots about death, brutality, fear, violence, murder, danger and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Salem's Lot: It (2017), Evil Dead Rise (2023), Carrie (2013), The Monkey (2025), The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
687K
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, spooky, horrifying, epic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
killer clown, clown, supernatural horror, coming of age, fear, small town, monster, evil clown, stephen king, villain, missing person, murderer ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, year 1988, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
maine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Ireland, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two sisters find an ancient book that gives birth to bloodthirsty demons that run amok in a Los Angeles apartment building and thrusts them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
Style:
suspenseful, mystical, psychological, slasher, lovecraft ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
sister sister relationship, demon, supernatural horror, evil, sibling relationship, demonic possession, chainsaw, elevator, evil smile, blood, apartment building, female protagonist ...
Time:
2020s, labor day
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
155K
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, teen, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
bullying, telekinesis, prom, revenge, high school, stephen king, blood, psychic power, supernatural ability, mother daughter relationship, teenager, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins a new killing spree forcing the estranged brothers to confront the cursed toy.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, lighthearted, splatter, grindhouse ...
Plot:
monkey, death, death of mother, twins, accidental death, bully, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, cursed object, cursed, motel, cheerleader ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 2020s, year 2016
Place:
maine
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Malta, India, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Follows the ill-fated crew aboard the merchant ship Demeter which carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England only to arrive at port with no survivors aboard.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, period piece, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural horror, ship, supernatural, doctor, ship captain, vampirism, danger, ocean, survival, sea voyage ...
Time:
1890s, 19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, london, transylvania
Similarity:
46%
102K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind ...
Style:
scary, cult classic, creepy, suspense, classic horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
car, obsession, killer car, violence, classic car, vengeance, stephen king, objects come to life, evil spirit, macabre, murder, bullying ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1957, year 1978, 1950s ...
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, detroit
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted ...
Style:
scary, bloody, gothic, atmospheric, horrifying ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, winter, small town, survival, snow, gory, blood, monster, supernatural, bloodsucker, blizzard, zombie ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, oceania, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman runs for her life though the streets of Los Angeles after her blind date suddenly turns violent.
Style:
suspense, brutal, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
survival horror, husband wife relationship, lovers, blind date, car crash, woman in jeopardy, harassment, babysitter, single mother, decapitation, mother daughter relationship, single parent ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has ...
Style:
suspense, action adventure, lighthearted, psychotronic, crying ...
Plot:
stephen king, psychic, pyrokinesis, fear, superpower, wife, supernatural, evil, secret government organization, fire, telepathy, white supremacy ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
40%
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:
40%
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:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Joe Weber is an anthropologist who takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot unaware that it is populated by vampires. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they ask Joe to write a bible for them.
Style:
black comedy, classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, semi serious ...
Plot:
vampire, stephen king, sex scene, child vampire, outdoor sex, monster, sexual intercourse, small town, homecoming, supernatural, youth, tribe ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maine, new england
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon (Miller) is a vampire hunter in training under his ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, scary, suspense, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
vampire, dracula, chase, death, brutality, good versus evil, transformation, blood, supernatural, danger, legends and myths, mind control ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
london, new orleans, europe, usa, louisiana
Similarity:
38%
243K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style:
disturbing, dark fantasy, twist ending, psychological, enigmatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, stephen king, psychic power, psychic, supernatural, disappearance, haunted house, supernatural power, nightmare, doctor, death, haunted hotel ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, year 1980, 80s, 2010s ...
Place:
ohio, new jersey, colorado, iowa, florida ...
Similarity:
38%
33K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ...
Style:
surreal, suspense, ambiguous ending, scary, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virus, zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, stephen king, life & death, post apocalypse, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, survival, paranoia, on the road ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
boston, new england, maine
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, afterlife, dead teenager, bloody mary, ghost, profanity, spirit, supernatural, murder, danger, haunted by the past, buddies ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah
Similarity:
37%
68K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Style:
scary, bloody, cult classic, gothic, splatter ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, vampire hunter, vengeance, death, gory, vampire slayer, bloodsucker, female vampire, vampire bite, transformation, violence ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new mexico, mexico
Similarity:
36%
91K
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:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lighthouse, ghost, revenge, supernatural horror, haunted house, small town, blood, radio station, sword, campfire story, murder, chase ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, northern california, usa, pacific ocean
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, bee, race against time, panic, small town, survival, military, antidote, plague, scientist, hallucination ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
texas, houston texas, latin america, austin texas
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" ...
Style:
suspense, classic horror, grindhouse, scary, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, infection, zombie apocalypse, survival, cannibalism, zombie attack, basement, gory, monster, supernatural, post apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.
Style:
satirical, sarcastic, ironic, surprise ending, dutch angle ...
Plot:
death, fate, accidental death, graphic violence, fire, supernatural horror, valet, cheating death, restaurant, ridicule, paranoid, taunting ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 2020s, year 1969
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
194K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, frightening, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted house, supernatural horror, doll, evil doll, demonic possession, death, curses spells and rituals, murder, self sacrifice, suicide ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2000, year 2014 ...
Place:
california, usa, santa monica california, pasadena california
Similarity:
36%
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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 ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, revenge, urban decay, belief, folklore, supernatural, macabre, investigation, ghost, legend, accused of murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a dystopian, alternate-America ruled by a totalitarian regime, 50 teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
Style:
ambiguous ending, teen horror, psychological horror, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
stephen king, self sacrifice, teenage boy, friendship, male protagonist, death of protagonist, suicide, survival, dystopian society, camaraderie, corporal punishment, sole survivor ...
Time:
70s, near future
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man is in a race against time as he searches for a cure after becoming infected with a virus that will eventually turn him into a blood-sucking vampire.
Style:
suspense, road movie, scary, teen, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, hitchhiker, sexy female vampire, female vampire, vampire bite, virus, vampire hunter, sex horror, gory, desert, infected, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
colorado, arizona, california, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style:
slasher, suspense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stephen king, ghost, supernatural, high school, monster, haunted by the past, murder, family in danger, childhood, investigation, youth, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
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Story:
Vampires are invading a small New England town. It's up to a novelist and a young horror fan to save it.
Style:
creepy, gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
vampire, small town, supernatural, murder, adultery, antique shop, stephen king, mansion, heart attack, dog, child murders a child, priest ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new england, maine, usa, texas, new jersey ...
Similarity:
35%
24K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense, lovecraft ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, small town, military, hotel, gory, monster, good versus evil, creature feature, danger, eaten alive, disaster, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco, california
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, humorous, scary ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday horror, vampire, male victim, vampire bite, rescue, supernatural power, good versus evil, evil, supernatural, fear, xmas ...
Place:
usa, romania, california, london, tokyo
Similarity:
35%
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