Movies Like How to Kill Your Family On Christmas
If you liked How to Kill Your Family On Christmas (2026), a horror and mystery movie directed by Robbie Dias, 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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Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also family and horrorOn 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.
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Mostly Ghostly (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also family and horrorBased on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance…
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Candy Cane Lane (2023)
★ 6/10Also comedy and familyDetermined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, family man Chris makes a pact with an elf to help him out-do the competition. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of…
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Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
★ 6/10Also family and comedyA Christmas elf accidentally takes off in Santa's sleigh, crash lands in a small town, and loses the magic toy bag. Beethoven must rescue the elf, recover the bag from greedy crooks, and return the sleigh to Santa in…
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and mysteryParanormal 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…
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and familyWhen ten-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned, he is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan in a creaky (and creepy) old mansion with a mysterious ticking noise that emanates from the walls. Upon discovering that his…
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also family and mysteryNancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…
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Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and mysteryScooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.
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The Children (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and mysteryA relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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Jeepers Creepers (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mysteryOn a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
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Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy and familyStep brothers Drake and Josh must give a foster family the best Christmas ever or face years in jail for a Christmas party gone wrong.
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Trick 'r Treat (2007)
★ 7/10Also horror and comedyFour interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank…
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R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls (2015)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and horrorTeenage friends must resist the spell of an evil showman staging a house of horrors show in their small town.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mysteryMill 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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Better Watch Out (2017)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and comedyOn a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.
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Spooky Buddies (2011)
★ 6/10Also comedy and familyThe nefarious Warwick the Warlock has returned from his astral imprisonment, and plans to make the final sacrifice for ultimate power - all he needs is the soul of a pure heart. The Buddies, alongside their new…
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Foul Play (1978)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and mysteryA shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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Return to Halloweentown (2006)
★ 6.6/10Also family and comedyAs Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to…
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Bone Lake (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and mysteryA couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream…
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A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also family and comedyRecruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween.