Movies Like Cries in the Night
If you liked Cries in the Night (1980), a horror and thriller movie directed by William Fruet, 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 Haunting in Connecticut (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and horrorWhen the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred…
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Hokum (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and thrillerWhen novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront…
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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thrillerMary 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…
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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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A Nun's Curse (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorA group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
★ 7.3/10Also horror and thrillerAn aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
★ 7.3/10Also horrorFive friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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Hellraiser (1987)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and thrillerA hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.
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825 Forest Road (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thrillerAfter a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark history of being haunted by a ghostly…
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The Conjuring (2013)
★ 7.5/10Also horror and thrillerParanormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying…
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Hellraiser (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and thrillerA young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.
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Lady in White (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thrillerLocked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
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Play Dead (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thrillerCriminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is…
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Hell House LLC (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also horrorFive years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out…
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Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)
★ 6.2/10Also horrorAfter a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal…
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Oddity (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also horrorAfter the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
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Dead Silence (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also horrorJamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist…
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Deranged (1974)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and thrillerA man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He…
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Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also horrorA group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is…
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Dead & Buried (1981)
★ 6.4/10Also horrorAfter a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.