20 best movies like Silent Night (2012)


List of the best movies like Silent Night (2012): The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Slasher, Smiley, Killer Movie, The Den, Cut, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Alice, Sweet Alice, The Gore Gore Girls, Cherry Falls.

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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: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCanada
Duration00:30

Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.

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: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA

    A reality TV director copes with a spoiled celebutante and a show gone haywire when a masked killer starts bumping off the crew in this slasher-movie satire.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:22

    A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its director was murdered. After they begin filming, they realize they're in for a bit of trouble, not unlike the late director...

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.

    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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, comedy, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A ditsy reporter enlists the help of a sleazy private eye to solve a series of gory killings of female strippers at a Chicago nightclub.

    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: 5.3
    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: 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: 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: 4.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:48

      A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
      Duration01:53

      The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.

      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: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      A deranged killer wearing a clown mask begins preying on a group of young women working at a phone-sex company.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, detective
      CountrySouth Africa, USA
      Duration01:29

      A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.

      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: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.

      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: 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: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:39

      A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING... not knowing if what they're seeing is real, or staged.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.

      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: 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: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:59

      When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort -- a hedonistic island paradise for swingers --- it's up to the club's staff to stop the violence ... or at least hide it!

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:38

      A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:33

        Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.

        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
        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: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

          A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.

          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: 5.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:22

          Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the hospital by mercenaries hired by Elena's wealthy father. Arkin is blackmailed to team up with the mercenaries and track down The Collector's booby trapped warehouse and save Elena.

          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: 5.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA

          A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.

          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: 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: 3.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA

          A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to room with hand-held cameras, performing séance's and asking for John Gacy to come forward. As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA

          Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:44

          A web-comic artist finds that a series of murders are occurring that have a disturbing resemblance to the images in her work.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

          An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.




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