Movies Like The Nights Before Christmas
If you liked The Nights Before Christmas (2020), a horror movie directed by Paul Tanter, 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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Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorAfter witnessing his parents' brutal murder on Christmas Eve, Billy transforms into a Killer Santa, delivering a yearly spree of calculated, chilling violence. This year, his blood-soaked mission collides with love, as…
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The Children (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorA relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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Psycho Killer (2026)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorFollowing the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial…
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The Lodge (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorWhen a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as…
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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
★ 7.1/10Also horrorAfter kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.
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Thanksgiving (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also horrorAfter a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge…
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The First Purge (2018)
★ 6/10Also horrorTo push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of…
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorTen years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.
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The Believers (1987)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorMourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the…
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Terrifier 3 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorFive years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and…
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)
★ 6/10Also horrorTwo decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed…
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Night of the Hunted (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorWhen 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…
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Dead End (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorOn Christmas Eve, while driving to see his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
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Play Dead (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorA woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also horrorNothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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Frank and Penelope (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also horrorA tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…
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Saw VI (2009)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorSpecial Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's…
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Bodycam (2026)
★ 6/10Also horrorA call to a quiet suburban home unleashes unthinkable carnage when two officers mistakenly shoot a man and his infant child, spiraling the tragedy into a fierce, unrelenting fall into the unknown.
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Maniac Cop 2 (1990)
★ 6/10Also horrorUndead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.
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Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorFreddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.