Movies Like R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2
If you liked R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead 2 (2026), a fantasy and horror movie directed by Jem Garrard, 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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R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and fantasyWhen his brother disappears and everyone forgets he existed, Sam must unravel the mystery before Finn is gone forever.
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Dark Harvest (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and fantasyIn a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
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The Jester 2 (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also horrorWhen teen magician Max crosses paths with the sinister Jester on Halloween night, she must outsmart a supernatural killer whose magic is all too real and whose tricks always end up in blood.
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Land of the Dead (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorThe living dead have taken over the world, and the remaining humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they cope with the situation.
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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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Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorQuinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup…
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The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and fantasyCassie, 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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The Jack in the Box: Awakening (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorWhen a vintage Jack-in-the-box is opened by a dying woman, she enters into a deal with the demon within that would see her illness cured in return for helping it claim six innocent victims.
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The Jester (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorA malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorFreddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and fantasySet in 19th Century Canada, Brigitte and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. But when one of the girls is bitten, they have no one to turn to but…
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Pumpkinhead (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and horrorWhen a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.
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Silver Bullet (1985)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorThe small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night…
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Night of the Living Dead (1990)
★ 6.9/10Also horrorA ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and fantasyA concise adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" about Mr. Toad's motor mania, followed by a short retelling of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" concerning schoolmaster Ichabod Crane.
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Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorA prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a…
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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and fantasyBrigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her…
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Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also horrorTo put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying…
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Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
★ 6/10Also horrorThe 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…
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
★ 6/10Also horrorTwo decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed…