20 movies like Someone's Knocking at the Door, ordered by similarity : Discopathe(2013), Jaws(1975), The Wicker Man(1973), It(2017), The Shining(1980), The Changeling(1980), The Backwoods(2006), Race With the Devil(1975), Scream and Scream Again(1970), Carnage Park(2016), The French Connection(1971), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later(1998) ...
Horror
USA
2009
80 Minutes
Noah Segan Andrea Rueda Ezra Buzzington Jon Budinoff Jordan Lawson Vernon Wells Silvia Spross Elina Madison Ricardo Gray Timothy Muskatell Lew Temple
couple serial killer suspenseful medical school drugs 1970s rape pursuit 1970s
Returning to the medical school where they were test subjects decades ago, a pair of outrageously twisted serial killers use shockingly brutal sex acts to start killing off a group of drugged-out med students.
Horror, Fantasy, Crime, Drama
Canada
2013
81 Minutes
Sandrine Bisson Marie-Claire Lalonde Katherine Cleland Pierre Lenoir Mathieu Lepage Christian Paul François Aubin Nancy Blais Jérémie Earp-Lavergne Ivan Freud Francesca Gosselin
new yorker serial killer dark creative disco new york city youth 1970s pursuit 1970s
The mid-70's: a timid young New Yorker leads an uneventful life until he is fatefully exposed to the pulsating rhythms of a brand-new genre of music: disco. Unable to control his murderous ... See full summary »
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
USA
1975
124 Minutes
Roy Scheider Robert Shaw Richard Dreyfuss Lorraine Gary Murray Hamilton Carl Gottlieb Jeffrey Kramer Susan Backlinie Jonathan Filley Ted Grossman Chris Rebello
captain police officer scientist mayor victim police chief thrilling suspenseful frightening new england boat amity island small town beach ocean man vs. nature deception death fear shark attack
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1973
102 Minutes
Edward Woodward Christopher Lee Britt Ekland Diane Cilento Lindsay Kemp Ingrid Pitt Roy Boyd Donald Eccles
police officer magistrate daughter teacher cult member shocking disturbing suspenseful island school scotland paganism missing persons investigation ritual sacrifice sexual repression religion temptation mystery sacrifice
A puritan Police Sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl who the locals claim never existed.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2017
135 Minutes
Jaeden Martell Jeremy Ray Taylor Sophia Lillis Finn Wolfhard Chosen Jacobs Jack Dylan Grazer Wyatt Oleff Bill Skarsgård Nicholas Hamilton Jake Sim Logan Thompson
clown victim killer child friend sibling brooding chilling disturbing frightening suspenseful uneasy derry, maine sewer house school woods horror monsters evil
An estranged family gathers together in New York City for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1980
142 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Shelley Duvall Danny Lloyd Scatman Crothers Barry Nelson Philip Stone Joe Turkel Anne Jackson Tony Burton Lia Beldam Billie Gibson
wife bartender psychic jack torrance chef caretaker chilling suspenseful disturbing creepy overlook hotel colorado violence axe insanity writer's block cabin fever extrasensory perception escape pursuit
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Horror
Canada
1980
107 Minutes
George C. Scott Trish Van Devere Melvyn Douglas John Colicos Jean Marsh Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood
composer friend senator ghost suspenseful creepy engaging somber washington state mansion haunting grief murder isolation accident discovery pursuit mystery 1970s
After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at an old mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
France|Spain|UK
2006
98 Minutes
Gary Oldman Virginie Ledoyen Paddy Considine Lluís Homar Yaiza Esteve Andrés Gertrúdix
lucy little girl boyfriend suspenseful backwoods abandoned house couples safety men escape 1970s
An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.
Horror
USA
1975
88 Minutes
Peter Fonda Warren Oates Loretta Swit Lara Parker R. G. Armstrong Clay Tanner Carol Blodgett Ricci Ware James N. Harrell Paul A. Partain
biker friend wife sheriff satanist campy eerie frenetic suspenseful texas rural community forest road rv satanism human sacrifice chase motorcycles rural life road trip
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1970
95 Minutes
Vincent Price Christopher Lee Peter Cushing Judy Huxtable Alfred Marks Peter Sallis Michael Gothard Anthony Newlands
mad scientist serial killer inspector officer nurse victim dark campy frightening london house laboratory nightclub barn murder science conspiracy investigation deception world domination
A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
2016
80 Minutes
Ashley Bell Pat Healy Alan Ruck James Hébert Michael Villar Larry Fessenden Darby Stanchfield Bob Bancroft Andy Greene Graham Skipper
vietnam vet hostage sheriff bank robber serial killer sniper thrilling suspenseful frightening compound desert stranded evil murderous rampage hostage situation heist 1970s
A psychotic sniper (Pat Healy) terrorizes a bank robber (James Landry Hébert) and his hostage (Ashley Bell) in the California desert.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1971
104 Minutes
Gene Hackman Fernando Rey Roy Scheider Tony Lo Bianco Marcel Bozzuffi Frédéric de Pasquale Bill Hickman Ann Rebbot Harold Gary Arlene Farber Eddie Egan
detective cop drug dealer drug smuggler engaging tense suspenseful new york city brooklyn, n.y. car showdown crime dangerous assignment drugs quest pursuit mystery 1970s
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
Horror, Other
USA
1998
85 Minutes
Jamie Lee Curtis Adam Arkin Josh Hartnett Michelle Williams Adam Hann-Byrd Jodi Lyn O'Keefe Janet Leigh LL Cool J Joseph Gordon-Levitt Nancy Stephens Branden Williams
serial killer headmistress son teen boy michael myers nurse thrilling gory tense suspenseful intense frightening northern california school basement elevator family home rest stop survival serial murders
Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance.
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
157 Minutes
Jake Gyllenhaal Mark Ruffalo Robert Downey Jr. Anthony Edwards Dermot Mulroney Brian Cox Elias Koteas Donal Logue John Carroll Lynch Clea DuVall Chloë Sevigny
reporter police officer detective serial killer child creepy gritty suspenseful san francisco bus california police station school obsession murder newspapers violence crime paranoia mystery
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Horror
USA
2003
95 Minutes
Jessica Biel Jonathan Tucker Erica Leerhsen Mike Vogel Eric Balfour Andrew Bryniarski R. Lee Ermey David Dorfman Laura German Terrence Evans Marietta Marich
killer young man young woman sheriff redneck brutal gory frightening texas house countryside serial murders stranded survival cannibalism rural life escape pursuit 1970s
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding loon and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Horror
USA
2015
80 Minutes
Natasha Blasick Richard Tyson Charlie Glackin Alanna Forte David A. Lockhart John Scuderi John Welsh Allisun Sturges Sean Story
young woman wealthy man killer serial killer murderer victim shocking brutal thrilling engaging suspenseful dark house asylum horror danger fear serial murders murder murderous rampage
A serial killer is purposely released from an asylum for the criminally insane so that he can continue his rampage.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Canada|USA
2007
92 Minutes
Tobin Bell Scott Patterson Betsy Russell Costas Mandylor Lyriq Bent Athena Karkanis Justin Louis Simon Reynolds Mike Realba Marty Adams Niamh Wilson
serial killer victim wife accomplice swat officer fbi agent gory suspenseful brutal dark laboratory crypt apartment motel school slaughterhouse torture morality investigation obsession
Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Other
USA
1978
91 Minutes
Donald Pleasence Jamie Lee Curtis Nancy Kyes P.J. Soles Charles Cyphers Kyle Richards Brian Andrews Arthur Malet
psychopath sister psychiatrist victim dark creepy suspenseful small town america household death stabbing baby-sitting halloween paranoia murder rise escape 1970s
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1974
83 Minutes
Marilyn Burns Gunnar Hansen Allen Danziger Paul A. Partain William Vail Teri McMinn Edwin Neal Jim Siedow John Dugan Perry Lorenz
sister paraplegic friend psychopath leatherface patriarch shocking frightening gory gritty texas country house country road isolation violence murder torture grave robbing escape pursuit
Two siblings and three of their friends en route to visit their grandfather's grave in Texas fall victim to a family of cannibalistic psychopaths.
Horror
USA|Netherlands|Italy
1977
92 Minutes
Richard Harris Charlotte Rampling Will Sampson Bo Derek Keenan Wynn Robert Carradine Scott Walker Peter Hooten Wayne Heffley Vincent Gentile Don "Red" Barry
whale captain hunter enemy killer animal brutal engaging shocking thrilling suspenseful frightening sea ship whale hunting whales animal behavior animal intelligence killer animals horror
A hunter squares off against a killer whale seeking vengeance for the death of its mate.