20 best movies like Child's Play (1988)


List of the best movies like Child's Play (1988): Alice, Sweet Alice, Crimson Peak, Lake Dead, Silent Night, The Mooring, Sinister 2, V/H/S: Viral, The Lazarus Effect, Rites of Spring, Anamorph.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:31

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather -- who died a particularly grisly death -- to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man's cabin.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:34

The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Every 40 seconds a person goes missing. In northern Idaho, a group of teenage girls attended a summer camp to help them connect with nature without technology. They were told it would be a summer of change. As the girls' houseboat is suddenly stranded in the middle of the river an odd couple comes to their aid. What was suppose to be an act of kindness turns deadly as the girls find themselves on the run, being pursued through the forest by a brutal and determined killer.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration02:34

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA, Spain
Duration01:21

V/H/S: VIRAL's segments include the story of a deranged illusionist who obtains a magical object of great power, a homemade machine that opens a door to a parallel world, teenage skaters that unwillingly become targets of a Mexican death cult ritual, and a sinister, shadowy organization that is tracking a serial killer. The segments are tied together by the story of a group of fame-obsessed teens following a violent car chase in LA that unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

    Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:19

    A ransom scheme turns into a nightmare for a group of kidnappers who become victims of a horrifying secret that must be paid every spring.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA

    A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist they be "cleansed" before turning 18.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrehorror, action, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    A bank heist descends into violent chaos when one of the hostages turns out to be a serial killer. Trapping the well-organized team of bank robbers in the building, the killer is now picking them off one by one.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

      About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.

      Markimdb: 2.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Romania, USA
      Duration01:23

      Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they may just get their answer the hard way when members of the team mysteriously disappear, leaving behind unnerving evidence.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the safety of the teens in general and in particular his own daughter Jody, who is still a virgin...

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA

      Six high school seniors celebrating with day's excursion find themselves on rowboat attacked by man-eating fish and must decide who must be sacrificed as they fight their way back to shore.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:43

      Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

      Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. When the ambulance arrives, it whisks them to Mercy Hospital.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:29

      Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Eight different people are invited to their 10-year high school reunion at their now-closed down high school where a former student, disfigured from a prank gone wrong, is there to seek revenge.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration03:11

        Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

        Markimdb: 3.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

          After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:26

          A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:07

          Ten years after the events of the original movie, Victor Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and proceeds to kill once more.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
          CountryCanada, France
          Duration01:37

          A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:47

          A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.

          Markimdb: 4
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA

          The teenager Madison McBride is traumatized by the loss of her deranged father when she was nine years old and the suicide of her beloved brother Brandon one year ago. She decides to join the Richard Miller University, where Brandon committed suicide, to overcome her demons. While walking to her dorm, she meets the weird janitor Wilbur Mackey that tells her that the place is haunted.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
          Duration01:38

          After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrehorror, action, thriller
          CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
          Duration01:30

          See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:20

          The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.

          Markimdb: 3.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:50

          Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder.

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