Movies like Scream
If Scream's mix of mask, california and attempted murder 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.
- 1
Scream VI
2023 · Directed by Tyler Gillett · 123 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Tyler Gillett · With Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega · Shares: mask, halloween, serial killer · From the same decade (2020s)
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
- 2
Scream
1996 · Directed by Wes Craven · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itWith Neve Campbell and David Arquette · Shares: california, halloween, serial killer · Also horror and mystery
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.
- 3
Scream 2
1997 · Directed by Wes Craven · 120 min6.5
Why you'll like itWith Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox · Shares: mask, halloween, serial killer · Also horror and mystery
Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
- 4
Scream 4
2011 · Directed by Wes Craven · 111 min6.5
Why you'll like itWith Neve Campbell and David Arquette · Shares: mask, california, halloween · 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.
- 5
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.
- 6
Black Phone 2
2025 · Directed by Scott Derrickson · 114 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: mask, serial killer, slasher · From the same decade (2020s)
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 disturbing visions of…
- 7
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.
- 8
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…
- 9
The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · Directed by Alexandre Aja · 107 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: serial killer, slasher, reboot
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone.
- 10
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.
- 11
Halloween Kills
2021 · Directed by David Gordon Green · 105 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, serial killer, hospital · From the same decade (2020s)
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 granddaughter Allyson,…
- 12
Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI
1986 · Directed by Tom McLoughlin · 86 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: mask, halloween, serial killer
Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.