Movies Like Pooka Lives!
If you liked Pooka Lives! (2020), a horror and thriller movie directed by Alejandro Brugués, 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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Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thrillerTo put their demons to rest once and for all, Josh Lambert and a college-aged Dalton Lambert must go deeper into The Further than ever before, facing their family's dark past and a host of new and more horrifying…
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Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerA prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a…
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Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and thrillerThe haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
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The Jester 2 (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and thrillerWhen teen magician Max crosses paths with the sinister Jester on Halloween night, she must outsmart a supernatural killer whose magic is all too real and whose tricks always end up in blood.
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Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
★ 6/10Also horror and thrillerThe Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition…
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thrillerAfter 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 Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thrillerParanormal 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…
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Trick (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerA detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
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Uncanny Annie (2019)
★ 6/10Also horror and thrillerOn Halloween night a group of college students get trapped in a mysterious board game that brings their darkest secrets and fears to life, where they must play to escape…and win to survive.
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Halloween (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thrillerLaurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
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A Nasty Piece of Work (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and thrillerA mid-level corporate employee finds out he’s not getting the Christmas bonus he was expecting, but his boss invites him to earn a promotion by beating his professional rival in a violent competition.
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The Jester (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thrillerA malevolent being known as The Jester terrorizes the inhabitants of a small town on Halloween night, including two estranged sisters who must come together to find a way to defeat this evil entity.
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Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)
★ 7.7/10Also horror and thrillerGemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.
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Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerParapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.
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Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thrillerTommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.
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The Children (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thrillerA relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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Dark Harvest (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thrillerIn a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
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Halloween Ends (2022)
★ 6/10Also horror and thrillerFour years after the events of Halloween in 2018, Laurie has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of…
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerFreddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
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Halloween II (1981)
★ 6.6/10Also horror and thrillerAfter failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for…