Movies Like The Cool Kids
If you liked The Cool Kids (2020), a horror movie directed by Jamall J Robinson, 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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The Wailer (2006)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorOn their way to Mexico, six students are stranded in a small town where years before a tragedy took place.
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The Dreadful (2026)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorIn medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne's past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious…
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The Boy Behind the Door (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorBobby tries to save himself and his best friend when they are kidnapped on their way home from school.
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Vicious (2025)
★ 6/10Also horrorWhen Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
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Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorIn a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
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Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorNeighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
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Saint Catherine (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorAn 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.
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The Hunt (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorTwelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport…
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God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorVice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…
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Pitfall (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorAfter a young man is separated from his friends in the woods, he falls into a ten-foot deep pit of spikes, impaling him through his leg and leaving him trapped. He quickly learns that his fall was not an accident.
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Cranston Academy: Monster Zone (2020)
★ 6/10Also horrorAn intelligent 15-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.
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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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Azrael (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also horrorIn a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the…
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Whisper (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorSinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
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The Last Breath (2024)
★ 6/10Also horrorA group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white…
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The Lady Vanishes (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorYoung socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorA masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
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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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Never Let Go (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorAs an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.
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Race with the Devil (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorTwo couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.