Movies like Freaky
If Freaky's mix of high school, gore and serial killer stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Freaky's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Happy Death Day
2017 · Directed by Christopher Landon · 97 min6.7
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Christopher Landon · Shares: slasher, campy · Also comedy and horror
Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her…
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Happy Death Day 2U
2019 · Directed by Christopher Landon · 100 min6.3
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Christopher Landon · Shares: slasher, campy · Also comedy and horror
Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of…
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Scream
1996 · Directed by Wes Craven · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: high school, serial killer, slasher
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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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · Directed by Marcus Nispel · 98 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: gore, slasher, chainsaw
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.
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Scream VI
2023 · Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin · 123 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, slasher · From the same decade (2020s)
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
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Malignant
2021 · Directed by James Wan · 111 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: gore, serial killer · From the same decade (2020s)
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.
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Scream
2022 · Directed by Tyler Gillett · 114 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, slasher · From the same decade (2020s)
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 4
2011 · Directed by Wes Craven · 111 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, slasher
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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Friday the 13th
1980 · Directed by Sean S. Cunningham · 95 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: 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.
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Hacksaw Ridge
2016 · Directed by Mel Gibson · 139 min8.2
Why you'll like itWith Vince Vaughn · Shares: gore
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Jeepers Creepers
2001 · Directed by Victor Salva · 90 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: slasher
On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.