20 movies like Mystery of the Wax Museum, ordered by similarity : House of Wax(1953), Bliss(2019), A Bucket of Blood(1959), Waxworks(1924), Bluebeard(1944), Carol(2015), #Horror(2015), Halloween(2018), The Signal(2007), Black Friday(1940), The Purge: Anarchy(2014), Let the Right One In(2008) ...
Horror
USA
1933
77 Minutes
Lionel Atwill Fay Wray Glenda Farrell Frank McHugh Gavin Gordon Edwin Maxwell Holmes Herbert Arthur Edmund Carewe Allen Vincent Monica Bannister Matthew Betz
sculptor partner assistant fiancée reporter creepy tense london new york city wax museum obsession art murder love fall revenge 1930s
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Horror
USA
1953
88 Minutes
Vincent Price Frank Lovejoy Phyllis Kirk Carolyn Jones Paul Picerni Roy Roberts Angela Clarke Paul Cavanagh Dabbs Greer Charles Bronson Reggie Rymal
professor sculptor partner assistant art student police officer creepy disturbing frightening creative new york city museum sculpting art likeness arson insurance fraud wretched excess rivalry mystery
An associate burns down a wax museum with the owner inside, but he survives only to become vengeful and murderous.
Horror
USA
2019
80 Minutes
Dora Madison Tru Collins Rhys Wakefield Jeremy Gardner Graham Skipper Chris McKenna Rachel Avery Mark Beltzman George Wendt Abraham Benrubi
artist agent friend murder victim brooding dark disturbing thrilling intense los angeles party art gallery apartment artistic struggle drug overdose bloodlust desperation murder mystery fall
A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.
Horror
USA
1959
66 Minutes
Dick Miller Barboura Morris Anthony Carbone Judy Bamber John Brinkley Julian Burton Bert Convy Myrtle Vail Ed Nelson John Herman Shaner Bruno VeSota
busboy hostess artist poet landlady beatnik campy playful tense café city apartment art murder love quest fall 1950s
A dim-witted busboy finds acclaim as an artist for a plaster-covered dead cat that is mistaken as a skillful statuette. The desire for more praise soon leads to an increasingly deadly series of works.
Horror
Germany
1924
60 Minutes
Emil Jannings Leo Birinsky Conrad Veidt Werner Krauss William Dieterle
wax museum owner daughter poet caliph ivan the terrible jack the ripper creepy dreamy germany baghdad moscow london wax museum revenge bloodlust paranoia love revenge wretched excess escape
A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.
Horror
USA
1944
73 Minutes
John Carradine Jean Parker Nils Asther Ludwig Stossel George Pembroke Teala Loring Sonia Sorel Iris Adrian Henry Kolker Emmett Lynn Patti McCarty
murderer artist seamstress inspector ex-lover dark creepy artist's studio funeral paris france murder case painting dangerous job wretched excess transformation love 19th century
In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
2015
90 Minutes
Chloë Sevigny Natasha Lyonne Timothy Hutton Taryn Manning Stella Schnabel Balthazar Getty Lydia Hearst Haley Murphy Bridget McGarry
young girl classmate bully father murderer murder victim dark chilling creepy frightening tense shocking connecticut bullying life in cyberspace social media slumber party teen culture serial murders discovery
Preteen girls face a night of terror when their obsession with a disturbing online game goes too far.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Other
USA|UK
2018
106 Minutes
Jamie Lee Curtis Judy Greer Andi Matichak Will Patton Virginia Gardner Nick Castle Haluk Bilginer James Jude Courtney Miles Robbins Dylan Arnold Drew Scheid
victim serial killer murderer rival psychopath creepy uneasy tense gory gripping thrilling haddonfield, ill. house forest mental institution suburb bus murder escape revenge
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Horror
USA
2007
101 Minutes
A.J. Bowen Dan Bush Anessa Ramsey Justin Welborn Scott Poythress Sahr Ngaujah Cheri Christian Christopher Thomas Matt Stenton Suehyla El-Attar
lover woman man husband murderer maniac bleak frightening intense creepy shocking disturbing apartment science fiction lovers affair manipulation fear murder escape
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Horror
USA
1940
70 Minutes
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Stanley Ridges Anne Nagel Anne Gwynne Virginia Brissac Edmund MacDonald Paul Fix Murray Alper Jack Mulhall Joe King
doctor professor mobster rival wife reporter tense creepy prison office street death row madness brain transplants organized crime murder death sentence mind control revenge pursuit
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|France
2014
103 Minutes
Frank Grillo Carmen Ejogo Zach Gilford Kiele Sanchez Michael Kenneth Williams Zoë Soul Justina Machado John Beasley
government official citizen sergeant stranger vigilante criminal dark intense creepy tense thrilling frightening city street ballroom car apartment alley anarchy murder
Three groups of people intertwine and are left stranded in the streets on Purge Night, trying to survive the chaos and violence that occurs.
Horror
Sweden
2008
114 Minutes
Kåre Hedebrant Lina Leandersson Per Ragnar Henrik Dahl Karin Bergquist Peter Carlberg Ika Nord Mikael Rahm
young boy vampire mother guardian dark fascinating creepy sweden suburbia apartment building school murder friendship love supernatural bullying revenge underdog discovery revenge
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
Horror
USA
1988
77 Minutes
Debrah Farentino Brian Robbins Vince Edwards Cheryl-Ann Wilson Jeffrey Combs Pamela Bellwood Yvonne De Carlo Mike Deak
comic book artist headmistress student young woman old woman evil spirit creepy dreamy frightening emotional mansion artist's studio school basement occult supernatural phenomenon art murder dark arts metamorphosis
A comic book artist Whitney Taylor is doomed to repeat history in a most grotesque way when she unleashes a demon after drawing it..
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
UK|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Jessie Buckley Geraldine James Johnny Flynn Charley Palmer Rothwell Hattie Gotobed Shannon Tarbet Emily Taaffe Olwen Fouere Oliver Maltman Trystan Gravelle Tim Woodward
tour guide poacher police detective sister golfer uneasy tense suspenseful shocking intense gripping disturbing creepy island great britain murder murder accusation family sister relationship misfits
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
Horror, Sci-Fi
USA|UK|Canada
1986
95 Minutes
Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis John Getz Joy Boushel Leslie Carlson George Chuvalo Michael Copeman David Cronenberg Carol Lazare Shawn Hewitt
scientist girlfriend reporter editor mutant creepy tense thrilling laboratory apartment clinic teleportation experiments mutation abortion relationships failure quest love fall
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1987
90 Minutes
Cristina Marsillach Urbano Barberini Daria Nicolodi Ian Charleson Antonella Vitale William McNamara
actress opera singer opera director murderer macbeth detective bleak brutal creepy dark intense frightening opera house stage apartment opera murder serial murders terror sadism
A hooded figure forces a young diva (Cristina Marsillach) to watch as he murders performers in a production of Verdi's opera "Macbeth."
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2013
96 Minutes
Alix Elizabeth Gitter James Ralph Erick Avari Steve Bacic Jade Ramsey James C. Burns Nikita Ramsey Tadhg Kelly Tara Westwood James Cavlo
orphan uncle young girl murder victim murderer ghost creepy dark dreamy suspenseful touching thrilling united states countryside country house village small town murder murder investigation ghosts
A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is, only to find the killer is very close to her.
Horror
USA
1979
96 Minutes
Abel Ferrara Carolyn Marz Baybi Day
artist girlfriend alcoholic homeless person punk rocker father tense frightening shocking disturbing new york city city apartment street big city subway rock club anger downward spiral evil murderous rampage
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Horror
Germany
2010
100 Minutes
Karoline Herfurth Nina Hoss Jennifer Ulrich Anna Fischer Max Riemelt Arved Birnbaum Steffi Kühnert Ivan Shvedoff
vampire woman love interest police officer criminal friend bleak chilling disturbing emotional thrilling intense germany club vampires vampire hunting murder relationships love change
In Berlin, a cop closes in on an all-female vampire trio who just took in a new member, Lena.
Horror
UK
1971
86 Minutes
Jason Robards Herbert Lom Christine Kaufmann Adolfo Celi Lilli Palmer Maria Perschy Michael Dunn Pepe Calvo Peter Arne Luis Rivera
murderer wife partner actor theater owner police officer eerie frightening gory tense paris theater france stage cemetery acting murder investigation marriage love triangle premonition
Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.