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Movies Like The Gorilla

If you liked The Gorilla (1930), a mystery and comedy movie directed by Bryan Foy, 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. 1Hold the Fort

    Hold the Fort (2025)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and comedy

    A HOA turns out to be more troublesome than usual in this wildly amusing, FX-heavy freak-out about newly minted suburbanites unexpectedly forced to take part in a struggle against monstrous forces.

  2. 2R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls

    R.L. Stine's Monsterville: The Cabinet of Souls (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and horror

    Teenage friends must resist the spell of an evil showman staging a house of horrors show in their small town.

  3. 3Lady in White

    Lady in White (1988)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and horror

    Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.

  4. 4The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

    ★ 7.3/10Also horror and mystery

    Paranormal 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…

  5. 5Abandoned

    Abandoned (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror and mystery

    After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.

  6. 6Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

    Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (1970)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and horror

    A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnap bums and hippies, forcing them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape endure ritualistic…

  7. 7Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and horror

    When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

  8. 8Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost

    Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)

    ★ 7.4/10Also comedy and mystery

    Scooby-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.

  9. 9Bad

    Bad (1977)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror and comedy

    Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She…

  10. 10Deathtrap

    Deathtrap (1982)

    ★ 6.7/10Also mystery and comedy

    A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

  11. 11Nocebo

    Nocebo (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also mystery and horror

    A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…

  12. 12Night of the Hunted

    Night of the Hunted (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and mystery

    When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her…

  13. 13The Cat and the Canary

    The Cat and the Canary (1939)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and horror

    A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

  14. 14The Cat and the Canary

    The Cat and the Canary (1927)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and horror

    A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose.

  15. 15House of the Long Shadows

    House of the Long Shadows (1983)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror and comedy

    An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has…

  16. 16Porno

    Porno (2019)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and horror

    When a group of naive teens working at a movie theater in a small Christian town discover a mysterious film hidden in its basement, they unleash an alluring succubus who gives them a sex education…written in blood.

  17. 17Ca$h

    Ca$h (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and mystery

    A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a…

  18. 18Song of the Thin Man

    Song of the Thin Man (1947)

    ★ 6.7/10Also comedy and mystery

    While attending a glamorous jazz cruise on New York’s East River, Nick and Nora Charles witness the fatal shooting of a wealthy patron. When suspicion falls on a young bandleader and his musicians, the couple steps in…

  19. 19Villains

    Villains (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and horror

    When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a…

  20. 20The Fearless Vampire Killers

    The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and horror

    A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

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