Movies like Scream
If Scream's mix of high school, small town and california stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Scream's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Scream 2
1997 · Directed by Wes Craven · 120 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Wes Craven · With Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox · Shares: halloween, serial killer, slasher · Also horror and mystery · From the same decade (1990s)
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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Scream 4
2011 · Directed by Wes Craven · 111 min6.5
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Wes Craven · With Neve Campbell and David Arquette · Shares: california, halloween, house party · Also horror and mystery
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 teens.
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Scream
2022 · Directed by Tyler Gillett · 114 min6.7
Why you'll like itWith Courteney Cox and David Arquette · Shares: california, halloween, serial killer · Also horror and mystery
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 the town’s deadly…
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Scream VI
2023 · Directed by Tyler Gillett · 123 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, serial killer, slasher · Also horror and crime
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
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Donnie Darko
2001 · Directed by Richard Kelly · 114 min7.8
Why you'll like itWith Drew Barrymore · Shares: high school, halloween, school
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
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Longlegs
2024 · Directed by Osgood Perkins · 101 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, killing spree, crime spree · Also crime and horror
FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the…
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Zodiac
2007 · Directed by David Fincher · 157 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: california, killing, serial killer · Also crime and mystery
The story follows the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers…
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Cruising
1980 · Directed by William Friedkin · 102 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, whodunit · Also crime and mystery
When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 115 min7.5
Why you'll like itWith Drew Barrymore · Shares: california, halloween
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie…
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · Directed by André Øvredal · 108 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: small town, halloween · Also horror and mystery
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family,…
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I Am Not a Serial Killer
2016 · Directed by Billy O'Brien · 104 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: high school, serial killer · Also horror and mystery
In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.
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It
2017 · Directed by Andy Muschietti · 135 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: small town, halloween, school
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.