Movies Like Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spirit

If you liked Haunted School: The Curse of the Word Spirit (2014), a horror movie directed by Masayuki Ochiai, 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
Bloody Chainsaw Girl Returns: Revenge of Nero (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also horror
Giko Nokomura is a female student at Nightingale Academy, who carries around her very own chainsaw. One day she begins to be attacked by modified corpses created by one of her classmates, Nero Aoi . She tears her way…
2
Re/Member (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also horror
Six high schoolers stuck in a murderous time loop must find the scattered remains of an unknown victim to break the curse and finally see another day.
3
Tomie: Rebirth (2001)
★ 7.2/10Also horror
Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the…
4
Another (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also horror
After a chain of deaths at a junior high school, new transfer student Koichi Sakakibara turns to a mysterious girl who holds the key to the dark mystery.
5
Premonition (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also horror
While stopped at a roadside phone booth for transmitting his work through the Internet to the university, Professor Hideki Satomi finds a scrap of newspaper with the picture of his five-year-old daughter Nana in the…
6
Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989)
★ 6/10Also horror
Legend has it that the human race is not the only dominant civilization living on Earth. Two other races exist in this world: the Makai (a demon race) and the Jujinkai (a half-man, half-beast race). Once every 3,000…
7
Lesson of the Evil (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also horror
Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and bad behavior among the student body.
8
The Final (2010)
★ 6/10Also horror
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
9
Dismissed (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also horror
A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.
10
Ju-On: White Ghost (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also horror
An apparitions of a young schoolgirl in a yellow rain hat, a family massacre, and a law student's suicide after he fails his bar exam are linked by the ominous recordings discovered on an audio cassette.
11
Paranormal Activity (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also horror
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of…
12
Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
★ 6.1/10Also horror
Mary Lou Maloney, Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, is killed during her coronation ceremony due to a prank gone wrong by her jilted boyfriend, Billy Nordham. Thirty years later, teen Vicki Carpenter is in the…
13
Pulse (2001)
★ 6.7/10Also horror
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
14
Polaroid (2019)
★ 6/10Also horror
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a…
15
Whistle (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also horror
When a misfit group of unwitting high school students stumbles upon a cursed Aztec Death Whistle, they discover that blowing it unleashes a terrifying sound that summons their future deaths to hunt them down.
16
The Nun II (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also horror
In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.
17
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
★ 6.2/10Also horror
An aerobics instructor becomes a ruthless assassin after being possessed by a slain ninja's spirit, leading to a showdown with a martial arts expert.
18
The Faculty (1998)
★ 6.6/10Also horror
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
19
Teke Teke (2009)
★ 6/10Also horror
The upper torso of a female, claws her way around Japan searching for her lower half. The person's lower half was severed in a train accident in Hokkaido. Anyone that hears of this story will see Teke-Teke's upper half…
20
Saint Catherine (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horror
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.