20 best movies like Christmas Evil (1980)

List of the best movies like Christmas Evil (1980): The Divide, Time Lapse, Crush the Skull, Dead in the Water, Megan Is Missing, Private Number, Central Park, My Soul to Take, Leatherface, He's Out There.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA

A couple of master thieves find themselves trapped within a house they intended to rob, only to discover they've inadvertently wandered into the lair of a deranged serial killer.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA

The Nereus is a fifty-year-old Ice Breaker, salvaged by an idealistic crew on a mission to catch illegal fisherman. On chase, the crew find themselves well off-course and bearing down on a body mysteriously floating in the middle of the Devil’s Sea. Superstitious or not, the team soon discovers they’ve rescued a deadly creature feeding on the lifeless body. Their new mission—kill or be killed and preferably before they hit land.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

School is boring, family life unbearable, and Harold and his high school friends have turned Central Park into their 'spot'. Unbeknownst to them, a revenge-seeking executioner prepares to kill them off one by one to pay for the sins of the father.

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: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryCanada, USA
Duration02:26

On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:08

Technology brings us closer. Or perhaps it brings strangers, a little too close. But how much can you really trust someone? With a new ride share service, you never know who will be getting in a car with. Or if you'll ever get out.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

After the accidental death of her rapist, an art student becomes an unlikely vigilante, set out to avenge college girls whose rapists were not charged.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Newlyweds Claire and Ryan have just moved into a new house. Both are hoping Claire’s pregnancy will be the cement needed to hold their already fraying relationship together. Little do they know their marital issues are the least of their problems. For unbeknownst to them, their scruffy, sleazy and lascivious landlord has installed numerous miniature cameras all over their home and has been spying on them from Day One. Then Ryan begins an office affair, and the landlord kits out the secret basement with chains and soundproofing. Something is going to give in this suburban shocker packed with nasty surprises.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:20

Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:41

A Russian woman travels to America with her daughter to marry a reclusive billionaire, who turns out to be a psycho who sends their lives spiraling into a living hell.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam (Fran Kranz) is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert (Alyson Hannigan) to discuss his options.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl who just got her driver’s license gets into her first Fender Bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger. Later that stormy night, she is joined in her desolate suburban home by a couple of her school friends who try their best to make a night out of it, only to be visited by the stranger she so willingly handed all of her information to — a terrifying and bizarre serial killer who stalks the country’s endless miles of roads and streets with his old rusty car, hungrily searching for his next unsuspecting victim.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:24

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one. A remake of the 1974 horror movie, Black Christmas.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:32

A troubled young woman takes up residence in a gothic apartment building where she must confront a terrifying evil.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:51

    A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

    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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, short
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    A woman leaves for a quiet weekend in the country after losing her job and imploding her latest dysfunctional relationship. She rents a country house from an old-fashioned widower who’s struggling to hide his psychopathic tendencies. Soon, two generations collide with terrifying results.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:50

    A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:18

    In this twisted love story, a man seeks out an unsuspecting stranger to help him purge the dark torments of his past. His plan goes awry when he encounters a woman with plans of her own.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Obsessed with her sexy roommate, Jill violently imprisons Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together.

    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: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, France

    California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime
    CountryMexico, USA
    Duration01:45

      Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      The plot follows a tortured FBI agent suffering from an irrational fear of darkness, as he investigates a mysterious former prostitute in order to catch a vicious serial killer.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Desperate to save their marriage, a young couple takes a deal to move into their dream home, but disturbing events reveal the house's troubled history.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:14

      A family’s road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family’s every limit as they struggle to survive.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:08

      With his business in shambles, a mounting criminal record, and a cheating wife, today is the day that Buddy Hutchins snaps.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Canada, Mexico
      Duration01:36

      Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:42

      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.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA

      Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the park.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:40

      A psychological thriller about a young married couple who buys a beautiful Napa Valley house on several acres of land only to find that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the property.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA

      Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbour turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. And that's when the murderous trouble really starts. Because without knowing it, the four friends have landed slap-bang in the wrong violent place at precisely the wrong bloody time. Hopefully your nerves of steel will hold for one of the most stylish, atmospheric and terror-filled home invasion horrors of them all.

      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: 4.1
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA

        The paths of a desperate man and an imprisoned young woman cross unexpectedly in the den of a mysterious killer.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUSA

        A terrifying psychological thriller set near the beautiful landscape of Glacier National Park, Montana. Two high school friends, Travis and Nate, are on a road trip to Canada when they're attacked by mysterious and vicious creatures. Nate is stolen into the woods and Travis will stop at nothing to get him back. Travis recruits Nate's older brother Chris to bring an arsenal and wage war against these monsters in an effort to retrieve Nate.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.




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