Movies Like Goosebumps: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
If you liked Goosebumps: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (1996), a horror and family movie directed by Randy Bradshaw, 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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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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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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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 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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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and horrorIn a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
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Monster High: Fright On! (2011)
★ 6.9/10Also family and fantasySee what happens when the student bodies of an all-vampire school and an all-werewolf school integrate with Monster High.
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Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also family and fantasyAnastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.
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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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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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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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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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James and the Giant Peach (1996)
★ 6.6/10Also family and fantasyWhen the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
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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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Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014)
★ 6.2/10Also family and fantasyDorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man, and Glinda, from a devious new villain, the Jester. New comrades Wiser the Owl…
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The Unhealer (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and horrorA botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to…
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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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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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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…