50 Movies Like Psycho (1960) You Need to Watch Next
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his ho
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Hitchcock's 1960 shocker rewrote the rules: kill your star halfway through, strand the audience at a lonely motel and let Norman Bates do the rest. The shower scene became cinema shorthand for terror, but the real dread is psychological — identity, guilt and a house with too many secrets. If its slow unease and twist-driven horror hooked you, seek out psychological thrillers and slashers that hide their monsters in plain, ordinary sight.
If you loved Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock, 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 Ma, Identity, I Know What You Did Last Summer. 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 Psycho
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Identity
2003 · James Mangold
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other,
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
2025 · Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back
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House of Wax
2005 · Jaume Collet-Serra
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
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Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · Brad Anderson
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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Watcher
2022 · Chloe Okuno
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
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Get Out
2017 · Jordan Peele
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interr
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Clown in a Cornfield
2025 · Eli Craig
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I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 · Jim Gillespie
After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-ha
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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · Olivia Wilde
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when crac
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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
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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.
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Scream
2022 · Tyler Gillett
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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
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Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings
2011 · Declan O'Brien
A group of friends take refuge in a deserted sanatorium after they are left stranded in a snowstorm. Later, the place becomes a death trap when man-eating cannibals surround them.
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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · Alexandre Aja
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Wrong Turn
2021 · Mike P. Nelson
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden communit
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Scream 2
1997 · Wes Craven
Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
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Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines
2012 · Declan O'Brien
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The Strangers: Chapter 1
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Fear
1996 · James Foley
Nicole Walker always dreamed of being swept away by someone special — someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David is all that and more: a mode
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Friday the 13th
2009 · Marcus Nispel
A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.
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Halloween Ends
2022 · David Gordon Green
Four 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 ig
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Child's Play 3
1991 · Jack Bender
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Halloween
2018 · David Gordon Green
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Texas Chainsaw 3D
2013 · John Luessenhop
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Hush
2016 · Mike Flanagan
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998 · Steve Miner
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Curse of Chucky
2013 · Don Mancini
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.
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Friday the 13th Part 2
1981 · Steve Miner
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.
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Scream 4
2011 · Wes Craven
Fifteen 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 tee
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MaXXXine
2024 · Ti West
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Scream 3
2000 · Wes Craven
As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.
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Us
2019 · Jordan Peele
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Orphan
2009 · Jaume Collet-Serra
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Thanksgiving
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
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Hereditary
2018 · Ari Aster
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
2021 · Michael Chaves
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The Others
2001 · Alejandro Amenábar
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Drop
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Exhuma
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Shutter
2004 · Banjong Pisanthanakun
When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
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The Ninth Gate
1999 · Roman Polanski
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning th
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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
2012 · MJ Bassett
Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand. Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and
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Escape Room
2019 · Adam Robitel
Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.
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The Grudge
2004 · Takashi Shimizu
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
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Marrowbone
2017 · Sergio G. Sánchez
A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
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Knock at the Cabin
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While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limi
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