Movies Like Haunted School
If you liked Haunted School (1995), a family and horror movie directed by Hideyuki Hirayama, 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.
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The Awakening (2011)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorIn post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
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Weapons (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also horrorWhen all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
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Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also family and horrorJust one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.
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Monster High: Haunted (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also familyLurk what's waiting for the Monster High ghouls when they bring their killer fashion to the howlways of the spooktacular Haunted High! When the ghouls of Monster High follow Spectra Vondergeist one day, they discover a…
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The Cellar (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorWhen Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk…
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The Innocents (1961)
★ 7.5/10Also horrorIn a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
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The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorTwo young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.
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Cobweb (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorEight year old Peter is plagued by a mysterious, constant tapping from inside his bedroom wall—one that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter's fear intensifies, he believes that his parents could be…
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Paranormal Activity (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorAfter a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of…
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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
★ 6.8/10Also horrorWhen elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of an anonymous suburban house that harbours a horrible secret, and into…
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The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also horrorCassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking…
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also horrorMill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family…
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Polaroid (2019)
★ 6/10Also horrorHigh school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a…
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Mr. Boogedy (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and familyA novelty-salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family soon learns that the house is haunted by people who lived in the house 300…
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Lady in White (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorLocked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
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Nightbooks (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and familyAlex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way…
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Whistle (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorWhen a misfit group of unwitting high school students stumbles upon a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, they discover that blowing it unleashes a terrifying sound that summons their future deaths to hunt them down.
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Teke Teke (2009)
★ 6/10Also horrorThe upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's upper half…
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undertone (2026)
★ 6/10Also horrorThe host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.
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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorMary Lou Maloney, Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, is killed during her coronation ceremony due to a prank gone wrong by her jilted boyfriend, Billy Nordham. Thirty years later, teen Vicki Carpenter is in the…