Movies Like New Year's Evil
If you liked New Year's Evil (1980), a horror and thriller movie directed by Emmett Alston, 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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Scream VI (2023)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thrillerFollowing the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
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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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Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
★ 6/10Also horrorVirginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be…
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House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorTwo teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
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The Last House on the Left (1972)
★ 6/10Also horrorOn the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks…
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The Strangers (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorAfter a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they…
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Scream 4 (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also horrorFifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.
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Halloween (1978)
★ 7.6/10Also horror and thrillerFifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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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.
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The Prowler (1981)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thrillerThirty years after a murder on the night of Avalon Bay's graduation dance, the sleepy town's teens meet grisly ends at the hands of a prowler once thought to be a jilted soldier home from war.
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The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and horrorA masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
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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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Ma (2019)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thrillerSue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting…
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End of Days (1999)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorCynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he must do everything he can to save the woman and the world.
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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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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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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also thriller and horrorNothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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Scream (1996)
★ 7.4/10Also horrorA year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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Bad Influence (1990)
★ 6/10Also thrillerWimpy young executive Michael is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in—and then disappears. Later that night, Michael runs into a stranger on a pier, who…
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Urban Legend (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thrillerA college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.