20 movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, ordered by similarity : Cult of Chucky(2017), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge(1985), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors(1987), Nails(2017), Haunter(2013), Halloween(2018), Cold Moon(2016), Night of the Demons(2009), The Evil Dead(1981), The Exorcist III(1990), Alice, Sweet Alice(1976), Alive(2019) ...
Horror
USA
1989
90 Minutes
Robert Englund Lisa Wilcox Danny Hassel Kelly Jo Minter Erika Anderson Whitby Hertford Nicholas Mele Beatrice Boepple Joe Seely Valorie Armstrong Burr DeBenning
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The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.
Horror
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Fiona Dourif Jennifer Tilly Alex Vincent Elisabeth Rosen Michael Therriault Zak Santiago Grace Lynn Kung Summer H. Howell Ali Tataryn Allison Dawn Doiron Adam Hurtig
doll killer woman supernatural being doctor victim chilling creepy dark disturbing frightening gory asylum doctor's office solitary confinement hospital bedroom strange happenings murder terror
Chucky returns to terrorize his human victim, Nica. Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former wife.
Horror
USA
1985
85 Minutes
Mark Patton Kim Myers Robert Rusler Clu Gulager Hope Lange Marshall Bell Sydney Walsh Robert Englund
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A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
Horror
USA
1987
95 Minutes
Heather Langenkamp Patricia Arquette Craig Wasson Laurence Fishburne Priscilla Pointer Robert Englund Brooke Bundy Rodney Eastman John Saxon
freddy krueger teen girl psychiatrist teen boy doctor maniac gory sad chilling frightening ohio hospital dreamworld dreams alcoholism suicide rape violence death metamorphosis
A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
Horror
Ireland
2017
85 Minutes
Shauna Macdonald Ross Noble Richard Foster-King Steve Wall Charlotte Bradley Leah McNamara Dennis Bartok Robert O'Mahoney Muireann D'Arcy Amelia De Buyl Pisco
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Recovering after a terrible accident, Dana struggles to regain her life and family when she encounters a malevolent ghost in her hospital room.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Canada|France
2013
97 Minutes
Abigail Breslin Stephen McHattie Peter Outerbridge Michelle Nolden David Hewlett Peter DaCunha Eleanor Zichy Samantha Weinstein
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A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
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
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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.
Crime, Drama, Horror
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Josh Stewart Candy Clark Frank Whaley Robbie Kay Christopher Lloyd Madison Wolfe Rachele Brooke Smith Laura Cayouette
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From Michael McDowell, the writer of Beetlejuice (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), comes a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance.
Horror
2009
90 Minutes
Monica Keena Shannon Elizabeth Edward Furlong Diora Baird Bobbi Sue Luther John F. Beach Michael Copon Tiffany Shepis
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Malevolent entities attack Halloween revelers (Monica Keena, Shannon Elizabeth, Edward Furlong) who make a grisly discovery in the basement of a creepy New Orleans mansion.
Horror
1981
85 Minutes
Bruce Campbell Ellen Sandweiss Betsy Baker Hal Delrich Sarah York
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Teens (Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker) in a remote cabin accidentally resurrect demonic forces with a taped incantation and the Book of the Dead.
Horror
USA
1990
110 Minutes
George C. Scott Ed Flanders Brad Dourif Jason Miller Nicol Williamson Scott Wilson Nancy Fish George Di Cenzo Viveca Lindfors
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A police Lieutenant uncovers more than he bargained for as his investigation of a series of murders, which have all the hallmarks of the deceased Gemini serial killer, leads him to question the patients of a psychiatric ward.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
1976
102 Minutes
Paula E. Sheppard Brooke Shields Linda Miller Tom Signorelli Louisa Horton Mildred Clinton Lillian Roth Jane Lowry Rudolph Willrich Niles McMaster
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In 1961, a divorced catholic couple's life is turned upside down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her First Communion, and a series of subsequent stabbings.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Canada
2019
91 Minutes
Thomas Cocquerel Camille Stopps Angus Macfadyen Chantal Perron Gerrick Winston Zoe Marlett Lisa Moreau
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A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their real identity.
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Canada
2017
87 Minutes
Nina Kiri Jorja Cadence Ryan Barrett Nina Richmond Will King Caleigh Le Grand Colin Price Austin Duffy Julie C. Sheppard Sid McMillan
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After she's kidnapped, a young woman begins to undergo a strange transformation.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada|Mexico
2019
111 Minutes
Zoe Colletti Michael Garza Gabriel Rush Austin Abrams Dean Norris Gil Bellows Austin Zajur Natalie Ganzhorn Lorraine Toussaint Kathleen Pollard Deborah Pollitt
teenager ghost friend police officer monster dark creepy gripping frightening uneasy thrilling school house classroom field police station barn ghosts paranormal events escape
On Halloween 1968, Stella and her two friends meet a mysterious drifter, Ramón, and uncover a sinister notebook of stories.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1980
89 Minutes
Adrienne Barbeau Hal Holbrook Janet Leigh Jamie Lee Curtis John Houseman Tom Atkins Nancy Kyes Charles Cyphers Ty Mitchell George "Buck" Flower John Vick
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An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.
Horror
UK
1987
90 Minutes
Andrew Robinson Clare Higgins Ashley Laurence Sean Chapman Oliver Smith Robert Hines Kenneth Nelson Gay Baynes
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A woman discovers the newly resurrected, partially formed, body of her brother-in-law. She starts killing for him to revitalize his body so he can escape the demonic beings that are pursuing him after he escaped their sadistic underworld.
Horror
UK|USA
1992
123 Minutes
Gary Oldman Winona Ryder Anthony Hopkins Keanu Reeves Richard E. Grant Cary Elwes Billy Campbell Sadie Frost Tom Waits Monica Bellucci Michaela Bercu
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The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Horror, Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2017
96 Minutes
Jessica Rothe Israel Broussard Ruby Modine Rachel Matthews Charles Aitken Jason Bayle Phi Vu Donna Duplantier GiGi Erneta Rob Mello
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A college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer's identity.
Horror
USA
1968
96 Minutes
Duane Jones Judith O'Dea Karl Hardman Keith Wayne Judith Ridley Marilyn Eastman Kyra Schon Charles Craig George Kosana Russell Streiner
man husband wife woman zombie gory frightening bleak farmhouse pennsylvania cannibalism paranoia fear murder survival group dynamics pursuit metamorphosis escape 1960s
A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the East Coast of the United States.
Horror
USA
1984
92 Minutes
Tim Matheson Meg Tilly Hume Cronyn John Karlen Bill Paxton Amy Stryker
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After a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.