Movies like Scream 2
If Scream 2's mix of mask, halloween and college stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Scream 2's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Scream
1996 · Directed by Wes Craven · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Wes Craven · With Neve Campbell and David Arquette · Shares: halloween, serial killer, slasher · Also horror and mystery · From the same decade (1990s)
A 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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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: mask, halloween, serial killer · 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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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Directed by Wes Craven · 91 min7.4
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Wes Craven · Shares: halloween, ohio, slasher
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive…
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Scream
2022 · Directed by Tyler Gillett · 114 min6.7
Why you'll like itWith Courteney Cox and David Arquette · Shares: mask, 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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Halloween
1978 · Directed by John Carpenter · 91 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: mask, halloween, serial killer
Fifteen 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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Psycho
1960 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 109 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, serial killer, slasher · Also horror and mystery
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 housebound mother.
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Scream VI
2023 · Directed by Tyler Gillett · 123 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: mask, halloween, college
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
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Terrifier 3
2024 · Directed by Damien Leone · 125 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: college, serial killer, slasher
Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives.
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Haunt
2019 · Directed by Scott Beck · 93 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: mask, halloween, slasher
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.
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Halloween
2018 · Directed by David Gordon Green · 106 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, serial killer, slasher
Laurie 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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Halloween II
1981 · Directed by Rick Rosenthal · 92 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: mask, halloween, serial killer
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for…
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Friday the 13th
1980 · Directed by Sean S. Cunningham · 95 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, serial killer, slasher
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.