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Movies Like Horror in the Wax Museum

If you liked Horror in the Wax Museum (1983), a horror movie, 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. 1Saint Catherine

    Saint Catherine (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.

  2. 2Tourist Trap

    Tourist Trap (1979)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and populated by his collection of life-like wax mannequins.

  3. 3Reborn

    Reborn (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror

    A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother…

  4. 4Play Dead

    Play Dead (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror

    Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is…

  5. 5House of Wax

    House of Wax (1953)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror

    A sculptor opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures, but quickly runs into trouble when his business partner demands the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

  6. 6Mystery of the Wax Museum

    Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror

    A wax sculptor opens a new museum years after he is severely injured during a fire that destroyed his original collection. The disappearance of both people and corpses coincides with this grand reopening and leads a…

  7. 7Abigail Haunting

    Abigail Haunting (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror

    After escaping the clutches of an abusive relationship, Katie reluctantly returns to the foster home she grew up in. Little does she know, her foster mother Marge is harboring a sinister secret dating back a decade…

  8. 8House of Wax

    House of Wax (2005)

    ★ 6/10Also horror

    A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

  9. 9Hellraiser

    Hellraiser (1987)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror

    A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

  10. 10Lust for a Vampire

    Lust for a Vampire (1971)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the…

  11. 11Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders

    Dangerous Game: The Legacy Murders (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also horror

    A family reunion at a remote mansion takes a lethal turn when they are trapped inside and forced to play a deadly survival game where only one will make it out alive.

  12. 12Nightmare Cinema

    Nightmare Cinema (2018)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror

    A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious…

  13. 13Vicious

    Vicious (2025)

    ★ 6/10Also horror

    When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.

  14. 14Whisper

    Whisper (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror

    Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.

  15. 15Succubus

    Succubus (2024)

    ★ 8.3/10Also horror

    A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he…

  16. 16Body Bags

    Body Bags (1993)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror

    A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new…

  17. 17Shades of Desire

    Shades of Desire (2023)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror

    After her twin sister Aubrey goes missing, Jennifer uncovers the scandalous, secret double-life that Aubrey leads - and that has put both of them in danger.

  18. 18The Boogeyman

    The Boogeyman (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror

    Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before…

  19. 19Thinner

    Thinner (1996)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror

    An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is…

  20. 20Dressed to Kill

    Dressed to Kill (1980)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror

    After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing…

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