Movies Like Home for the Holidays
If you liked Home for the Holidays (1974), a horror and thriller movie directed by John Llewellyn Moxey, 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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Buried Alive (1990)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and horrorA married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.
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Black Phone 2 (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thrillerFour 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…
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The Bad Seed (2018)
★ 7/10Also horror and thrillerA widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.
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I See You (2019)
★ 7/10Also horror and thrillerWhen a 12-year-old boy goes missing at a local park, a detective investigates the case to help the boy's family find answers.
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Hunted (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thrillerA woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.
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Bone Lake (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerA 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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Wrong Turn 2: Dead End (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thrillerRetired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into a nightmarish…
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The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
★ 6/10Also horror and thrillerTerror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such…
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Nightmare at Shadow Woods (1987)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thrillerTwins Todd and Terry seem like sweet boys -- that is, until one of them takes an axe to the face of a fellow patron at the local drive-in.
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The Black Phone (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also horror and thrillerFinney 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…
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The Prowler (1981)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thrillerThirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.
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Goodnight Mommy (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerWhen twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
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Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerTommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.
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The Children (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thrillerA relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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Till Death (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and thrillerAfter a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted…
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825 Forest Road (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerAfter a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark history of being haunted by a ghostly…
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The Stepfather (1987)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and thrillerSeemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison has just murdered his entire family. After adopting a new identity and skipping town, he begins building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter. However, he soon…
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Creep (2014)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thrillerLooking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote…
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thrillerAn aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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Race with the Devil (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thrillerTwo couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.