20 movies like House of Wax, ordered by similarity : Mystery of the Wax Museum(1933), Cellar Dweller(1988), Bliss(2019), Chamber of Horrors(1966), It Comes at Night(2017), Clive Barker's Book of Blood(2008), Suspiria(1977), Vampire Clay(2017), Unsane(2018), Tales From the Darkside: The Movie(1990), A Bucket of Blood(1959), Psycho(1960) ...
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
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
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
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
1966
99 Minutes
Patrick O'Neal Cesare Danova Wilfrid Hyde-White Laura Devon Patrice Wymore Suzy Parker Tun-Tun Philip Bourneuf Jeanette Nolan Marie Windsor Wayne Rogers
serial killer entrepreneur dwarf police officer priest woman disturbing frightening gory baltimore church wax museum train river mental illness investigation serial murders art amputation sculpting
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2017
97 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Christopher Abbott Carmen Ejogo Riley Keough Kelvin Harrison Jr. Griffin Robert Faulkner David Pendleton Chase Joliet Mick O'Rourke
husband wife son refugee mother survivor bleak brooding creepy disturbing tense thrilling house woods basement forest home disease evil spirits mysterious illness
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Horror
2008
100 Minutes
Jonas Armstrong Sophie Ward Paul Blair Doug Bradley James Watson Clive Russell Romana Abercromby Simon Bamford
professor expert student young man partner writer suspenseful gory frightening house college bedroom diner bar truck supernatural haunted houses investigation strange happenings murder
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Italy
1977
92 Minutes
Jessica Harper Stefania Casini Joan Bennett Eva Axén Flavio Bucci Udo Kier Alida Valli Susanna Javicoli
schoolgirl ballerina teacher witch student suspenseful disturbing frightening boarding school dorm dressing room germany apartment building forest witchcraft murder mystery conspiracy ballet discovery
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Horror
2017
80 Minutes
Ena Fujita Asuka Kurosawa Yuyu Makihara Ryô Shinoda Momoka Sugimoto Kyôka Takeda Kanji Tsuda
student classmate rival creature teacher victim amusing melodramatic gory suspenseful thrilling tokyo classroom art studio house studio tokyo art killer substance vampires
An art student discovers a bag of old clay and begins to use it for her sculpting projects. Things take a turn for the macabre when a student mysteriously disappears.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
98 Minutes
Claire Foy Josh Leonard Jay Pharoah Juno Temple Amy Irving Polly McKie Myra Lucretia Taylor Gibson Frazier Aimee Mullins Colin Woodell
stalker woman patient nurse doctor mother disheartening uneasy eerie creepy brooding suspenseful psychiatric ward hospital office apartment park funeral stalking psychiatry
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Horror
USA
1990
93 Minutes
Deborah Harry Christian Slater David Johansen William Hickey James Remar Rae Dawn Chong Robert Klein Steve Buscemi Matthew Lawrence Robert Sedgwick Julianne Moore
student mummy hit man industrialist demon artist creepy disturbing frightening university staircase dungeon kitchen museum street curse animal attack cannibalism greed supernatural
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
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, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1960
109 Minutes
Anthony Perkins Janet Leigh Vera Miles John Gavin Martin Balsam John McIntire Simon Oakland John Anderson Frank Albertson Patricia Hitchcock
secretary norman bates police officer boyfriend mother creative creepy thrilling motel california highway phoenix office theft mental illness mystery 1960s
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
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, Comedy
UK
2018
118 Minutes
Marianne Jean-Baptiste Sidse Babett Knudsen Hayley Squires Leo Bill Julian Barratt Steve Oram Zsolt Páll Gwendoline Christie Barry Adamson Jaygann Ayeh Richard Bremmer
customer department manager store clerk stranger boss man brooding disturbing eerie gripping offbeat uneasy department store home city shop curse strangers consequences strange behavior
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
Documentary
USA
2018
105 Minutes
Jeff Koons Larry Poons Simon de Pury Amy Cappellazzo Jerry Saltz George Condo
artist art collector art critic art dealer intellectual critic creative fascinating hedonistic spectacular art gallery auction house london united states art art world auction consumerism money prestige
With unprecedented access to pivotal artists and the white-hot market surrounding them, this film dives deep into the contemporary art world, holding a fun-house mirror up to our values and times.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
127 Minutes
Toni Collette Gabriel Byrne Alex Wolff Ann Dowd Milly Shapiro Mallory Bechtel Brock McKinney Christy Summerhays
art gallerist mother daughter son husband thrilling suspenseful gory frightening profound fascinating art gallery haunted house woods mysterious past legacy horror mysterious deaths family secrets darkness
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
Horror
USA
1946
88 Minutes
Robert Alda Andrea King Peter Lorre Victor Francen J. Carrol Naish Charles Dingle John Alvin David Hoffman Patricia Barry Barbara Brown William Edmunds
personal assistant pianist nurse con artist lawyer astrologer brooding creepy melodramatic san stefano italy villa village supernatural death jealousy money inheritance fear mystery
In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a one-handed, wheelchair-bound pianist, with a strong belief in the occult, is murdered.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
2018
82 Minutes
Madeline Brewer Imogen Waterhouse Sarah Hay Scott Cohen Brad Calcaterra Zoe Feigelson Dhoni Middleton Tai Lyn Sandhu Mauricio Ovalle
friend mentally ill person thief partner creepy unrestrained uneasy frightening brutal mansion kitchen bedroom dreamworld horror dreams betrayal fantasy vs. reality murder theft quest
Two wanted women decide to rob their wealthy psychotic friend who lives in the fantasy world they created as children; to take the money they have to take part in a deadly perverse game of make believe.
Horror
1986
83 Minutes
Michael Rooker Tracy Arnold Tom Towles Anne Bartoletti Mary Demas Elizabeth Kaden Ted Kaden
prostitute sister victim partner serial killer disturbing shocking intense apartment chicago street murder violence madman abuse wretched excess 1980s
Ex-convict Henry (Michael Rooker) gets close to the sister (Tracy Arnold) of the prison buddy (Tom Towles) he teaches how to serial kill.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
1999
87 Minutes
Eduardo Sánchez Heather Donahue Michael C. Williams Josh Leonard Bob Griffith Jim King Sandra Sanchez Ed Swanson Patricia DeCou
student documentarian fisherman interviewee waitress witch creative frightening disturbing tense small town woods camp documentary filmmaking witchcraft lost folklore child murder investigation escape
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.