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Movies Like Poltergeist III

If you liked Poltergeist III (1988), a horror and thriller movie directed by Gary Sherman, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Candyman

    Candyman (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.

  2. 2Damien - Omen II

    Damien - Omen II (1978)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller

    Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to…

  3. 3Poltergeist II: The Other Side

    Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition…

  4. 4Halloween

    Halloween (2018)

    ★ 6.6/10Also horror and thriller

    Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

  5. 5Halloween Ends

    Halloween Ends (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    Four years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of…

  6. 6Insidious: Chapter 2

    Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and thriller

    The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

  7. 7Insidious: The Red Door

    Insidious: The Red Door (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also horror and thriller

    To put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying…

  8. 8Insidious: Chapter 3

    Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller

    A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a…

  9. 9Insidious

    Insidious (2011)

    ★ 7/10Also horror and thriller

    A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they…

  10. 10Paranormal Activity 2

    Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror

    Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

  11. 11Apartment 7A

    Apartment 7A (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.

  12. 12The Vigil

    The Vigil (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror

    A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.

  13. 13The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

    ★ 7.3/10Also horror and thriller

    Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before…

  14. 14Insidious: The Last Key

    Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller

    Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

  15. 15Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin

    Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin (2021)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    Margot is a documentary filmmaker looking to meet her long-lost mother and extended family in a secluded Amish community. She and her film crew soon realize the family that welcomes them into their home might be hiding…

  16. 16Insidious: Out of the Further

    Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)

    ★ 7.7/10Also horror and thriller

    Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

  17. 17Annabelle: Creation

    Annabelle: Creation (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10Also horror

    Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed…

  18. 18Sinners

    Sinners (2025)

    ★ 7.5/10Also horror and thriller

    Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

  19. 19Annabelle Comes Home

    Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror

    Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a…

  20. 20The Deliverance

    The Deliverance (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services…

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