Movies Like Our Monsters

If you liked Our Monsters (2025), a movie directed by Mia Petrovic, 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
You Shall Not Sleep Tonight (2024)
★ 5.9/10
A boy is haunted by terrifying nightmares where a monster lurks inside the closet. To his relief, his father appears in the middle of the night helping him to face his fears. But the boy will begin to question the true…
2
Dust Bunny (2025)
★ 6.7/10
Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster under her bed that she claims ate her family. To protect her, he must battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting that some monsters are real.
3
Little Monsters (1989)
★ 5.8/10
A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a…
4
Cobweb (2023)
★ 6.4/10
Eight 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…
5
Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
★ 7.4/10
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. So he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences including that she's rich, he's…
6
TMNT (2007)
★ 6.2/10
After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Splinter, becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New…
7
The Black Phone (2022)
★ 7.5/10
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney…
8
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
★ 5.8/10
A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
9
The Mist (2007)
★ 7/10
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals…
10
Slapface (2022)
★ 5.9/10
A boy deals with the loss of his mother by creating a relationship with a dangerous monster.
11
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)
★ 7.1/10
Phineas and Ferb get trapped in an alternate dimension where the evil Doofenshmirtz rules the tri-state area. They must find a way back home with the help of their pet platypus named Perry, who they discover is a…
12
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
★ 6.2/10
When their bus is crippled on the side of a deserted road, a team of high school athletes discover an opponent they cannot defeat – and may not survive.
13
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
★ 6/10
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…
14
Girl vs. Monster (2012)
★ 6.3/10
Skylar finds out that her parents are monster hunters after she accidentally releases some monsters from a secret containment chamber; so she and her techno friends must recapture all the monsters and also save her mom…
15
Werewolf by Night (2022)
★ 7/10
On a dark and somber night, a secret cabal of monster hunters emerge from the shadows and gather at the foreboding Bloodstone Temple following the death of their leader. In a strange and macabre memorial to the…
16
Black Phone 2 (2025)
★ 6.6/10
Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbing visions of…
17
Kisses (2008)
★ 7.1/10
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
18
Orion and the Dark (2024)
★ 6.5/10
A boy with an active imagination faces his fears on an unforgettable journey through the night with his new friend: a giant, smiling creature named Dark.
19
Chestnut: Hero of Central Park (2004)
★ 7.3/10
Ray and Sal, two orphaned sisters, adopt and hide a Great Dane puppy from their two adopted parents living in a luxury downtown New York apartment that expressely forbids dogs.
20
The Boy Behind the Door (2020)
★ 6.2/10
Bobby tries to save himself and his best friend when they are kidnapped on their way home from school.