Movies Like Goosebumps: Scary House
If you liked Goosebumps: Scary House (2005), a horror and fantasy movie directed by William Freut, 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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Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also family and fantasyJust one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.
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Nightbooks (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and horrorAlex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way…
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Monster High: Frights, Camera, Action! (2014)
★ 7.5/10Also family and fantasyWhen Draculaura is led to believe she's the rightful heir to the vampire throne, she and her best ghoulfriends are whisked away to Transylvania for a royal coronation to die for. But they soon discover the hunt for the…
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Welcome to Smelliville (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also family and fantasyThe Oggly family arrive at the municipal rubbish dump of Smelliville and must look for a new home, but they never feel really welcome anywhere. They stink and are for most humans just a tad too oggly. When Firebottom…
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The Witches (1990)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and familyWhile staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical…
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A Tooth Fairy Tale (2025)
★ 8.5/10Also fantasy and familyVan, the brave son of a tooth fairy leader, meets the goblins girl Gemma on his first mission. Despite the myths about ancient disputes between fairies and goblins, they share common values. When the greedy Spider…
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Momo (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also family and fantasyMomo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time…
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Hansel and Gretel (1988)
★ 7.1/10Also family and fantasyHansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman…
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Coraline (2009)
★ 8/10Also family and fantasyWandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real…
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The Black Cauldron (1985)
★ 6.4/10Also family and fantasyTaran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the…
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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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Monster High: Haunted (2015)
★ 7.5/10Also family and fantasyLurk what's waiting for the Monster High ghouls when they bring their killer fashion to the howlways of the spooktacular Haunted High! When the ghouls of Monster High follow Spectra Vondergeist one day, they discover a…
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The Legend of Ochi (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also family and fantasyIn a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a…
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Mr. Boogedy (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and familyA novelty-salesman moves his family into a new house. Initially dismissing incidents as more of their father's practical jokes, the family soon learns that the house is haunted by people who lived in the house 300…
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The Swan Princess: A Fairytale Is Born (2023)
★ 6/10Also family and fantasyBefore becoming queen, Uberta lived a humble life with her husband Maximillian when she is suddenly thrust into royalty. Through triumph and tragedy, she learns the lessons needed to become a beloved Queen, all while…
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Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and familyOscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.
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The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and horrorAfter an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long lost daughter, who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar…
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The Dirt Bike Kid (1985)
★ 6.1/10Also family and fantasyWhen his mother sends Jack off with money to buy groceries, he comes home with a magic supercharged dirt bike instead. His mother is furious, but when Jack uses the magic bike to save the local hot dog stand from the…
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City of Ember (2008)
★ 6.4/10Also family and fantasyFor generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to…
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Return to Oz (1985)
★ 6.7/10Also family and fantasyDorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.