Movies Like To Be a Starfish

If you liked To Be a Starfish (2025), a comedy and horror movie directed by Hunter Bishop, 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
Hostile Takeover (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and thriller
Follows Pete, a professional hitman, as he faces a group of assassins after the boss of a crime syndicate suspects disloyalty due to his attendance at Workaholics Anonymous meetings.
2
Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
3
Race with the Devil (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
4
LaRoy, Texas (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and thriller
Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.
5
The 'Burbs (1989)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and horror
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But…
6
The Dark Mirror (1946)
★ 7/10Also thriller and horror
A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.
7
Poison (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and thriller
When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
8
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and horror
Young socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
9
Once Bitten (1985)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and horror
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own…
10
The Shed (2019)
★ 6/10Also horror and thriller
The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge…
11
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and horror
A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.
12
Dave Made a Maze (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and horror
Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of…
13
Mermaid Down (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
A mermaid is ripped from the ocean by a fishing crew only to be tortured and to have her tail cut off. A seemingly helpful stranger intervenes, but then locks her away in an institution for mentally disturbed young…
14
Frankenweenie (2012)
★ 7/10Also comedy and horror
When a car hits young Victor's pet dog Sparky, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has…
15
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and comedy
On Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capitalist aunt's greedy clutches. Magic abounds and they meet mysterious new friends along the way.
16
Deathtrap (1982)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and comedy
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
17
Scared Shrekless (2010)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and horror
Shrek challenges Donkey, Puss in Boots and his other fairy tale character friends to spend the night in Lord Farquaad's haunted castle, telling scary stories to see who can resist becoming scared and stay the longest.
18
What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horror
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
19
Cul-de-sac (1966)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and comedy
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.
20
Frankenweenie (1984)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and comedy
When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's homemade monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc…