50 Movies Like A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) You Need to Watch Next
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If you loved A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) by Wes Craven, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Freddy vs. Jason, A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · Ronny Yu
Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.
In common: Horror
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge
1985 · Jack Sholder
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
In common: Horror
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
1984 · Joseph Zito
After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.
In common: Horror
Terrifier 3
2024 · Damien Leone
Five 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 Chri
In common: Horror
The Black Phone
2022 · Scott Derrickson
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to
In common: Horror
Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood
1988 · John Carl Buechler
Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave, allowing him to go on another killing spree in the area.
In common: Horror
Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI
1986 · Tom McLoughlin
Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.
In common: Horror
Black Phone 2
2025 · Scott Derrickson
Four years after defeating The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with life after captivity. When his younger sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the Black Phone and seeing disturbi
In common: Horror
Terrifier
2018 · Damien Leone
A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
In common: Horror
Pearl
2022 · Ti West
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pea
In common: Horror
Terrifier 2
2022 · Damien Leone
A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Hall
In common: Horror
Child's Play
1988 · Tom Holland
After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.
In common: Horror
Hostel
2006 · Eli Roth
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
In common: Horror
Child's Play 2
1990 · John Lafia
Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.
In common: Horror
Tarot
2024 · Spenser Cohen
When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate
In common: Horror
Pet Sematary
1989 · Mary Lambert
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
In common: Horror
Salem's Lot
2024 · Gary Dauberman
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
In common: Horror
The Exorcist: Believer
2023 · David Gordon Green
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior re
In common: Horror
Lights Out
2016 · David F. Sandberg
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
In common: Horror
Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort
2014 · Valeri Milev
A sudden and mysterious inheritance brings Danny and his friends to Hobb Springs, a forgotten resort deep in the West Virginia hills. Hobb Springs is being looked after under the watchful care of Jack
In common: Horror
Halloween Kills
2021 · David Gordon Green
Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her grand
In common: Horror
Never Let Go
2024 · Alexandre Aja
As 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.
In common: Horror
The Strangers
2008 · Bryan Bertino
After 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 beyon
In common: Horror
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · Marcus Nispel
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
In common: Horror
Dead Silence
2007 · James Wan
Jamie 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
In common: Horror
X
2022 · Ti West
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
In common: Horror
Friday the 13th
1980 · Sean S. Cunningham
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
In common: Horror
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · Tobe Hooper
Five 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 arm
In common: Horror
The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · Michael Chaves
In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frigh
In common: Horror
The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025 · Michael Chaves
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
In common: Horror
Jason X
2001 · James Isaac
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place t
In common: Horror
Until Dawn
2025 · David F. Sandberg
One year after her sister Melanie mysteriously disappeared, Clover and her friends head into the remote valley where she vanished in search of answers. Exploring an abandoned visitor center, they find
In common: Horror
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
1993 · Adam Marcus
Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.
In common: Horror
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988 · Renny Harlin
Freddy 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.
In common: Horror
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994 · Wes Craven
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
In common: Horror
A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · Samuel Bayer
Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The ma
In common: Horror
The Exorcist
1973 · William Friedkin
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
In common: Horror
Talk to Me
2023 · Michael Philippou
When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
In common: Horror
Bring Her Back
2025 · Michael Philippou
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
In common: Horror
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End
2007 · Joe Lynch
Retired military commander Colonel Dale Murphy hosts the simulated post-apocalyptic reality show where participants are challenged to survive a remote West Virginia wasteland. But the show turns into
In common: Horror
Nosferatu
2024 · Robert Eggers
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
In common: Horror
Five Nights at Freddy's
2023 · Emma Tammi
Recently fired and desperate for work, a troubled young man named Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But he soon disc
In common: Horror
Insidious: The Red Door
2023 · Patrick Wilson
To 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 mor
In common: Horror
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead
2009 · Declan O'Brien
A group of people find themselves trapped in the backwoods of West Virginia, fighting for their lives against a group of vicious and horribly disfigured inbred cannibals.
In common: Horror
Scream
2022 · Tyler Gillett
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from t
In common: Horror
Wrong Turn
2003 · Rob Schmidt
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are gro
In common: Horror
Final Destination 2
2003 · David R. Ellis
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberl
In common: Horror
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
2023 · André Øvredal
The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
In common: Horror
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
1989 · Rob Hedden
Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.
Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 · Zach Lipovsky
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitab
In common: Horror