20 best movies like The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)


List of the best movies like The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014): The Prowler, Taboo, Slasher, Alice, Sweet Alice, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Fingerprints, Nine Dead, Acolytes, Silent Night, Midnighters.

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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: 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.

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: 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Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight.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: 5.2
Genrehorror, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this twisted killer.

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: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryAustralia

Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.

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: 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.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:35

A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

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: 6.1
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, crime, detective
CountryJapan
Duration01:59

In Victorian-era London, on the night of Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday a fire destroyed his manor and killed both of his parents. In a moment of death Ceil strikes a deal with a demon, his soul in exchange for revenge. This demon becomes his butler and calls himself by name of Sebastian Michaelis, to protect and serve Ciel until the deal has been completed. One month after the fire Ciel returns from being missing, with his new butler Sebastian. Ceil is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the work as the Queen of England’s guard dog and looking for his parents murders.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder

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: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

Fiona Wagner, a journalism student, tracks a cold-blooded killer with the help of her detective father and a therapist.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:19

A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous kids when their school comes under siege after hours.

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: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
Duration02:21

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

Markimdb: 3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

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: 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: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, West Germany

A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society.

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.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Sweden, South Africa
Duration01:42

After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.

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: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:41

    After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration01:39

    A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:31

    A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:46

    Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer easily avoided police at first. But as police closed in and the killer’s pattern grew more erratic, the only question was how many more will die?

    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: 4.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    When a U.S. congressman's daughter passing through a small town in Mississippi dies in a mysterious triple homicide, a team of F.B.I. agents descends to investigate, the team's brilliant but jaded lead agent battling demons both past and present, as his beautiful, tough-as-nails partner tries to hold him and the case together. They find a struggling and corrupt sheriff's department, a shadowy and much-feared figure, who seems to be pulling all of the town's strings from his mansion on the edge of town and a local victim with a strange connection to a number of the town's most prominent figures.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

    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
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    "Everlasting" is an award-winning thriller about a High School student who travels from Colorado to L.A. to find the truth behind the murder of his girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryJapan

    Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

    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: 7.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:19

    A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Charlie Cox should have stopped for gas in California. While he's on a cross-country trip with his teenage daughter, Joleen, his car hits empty in a creepy town in Nevada. With nary a drop of fuel to be found, Charlie and Joleen stop for the night at a dilapidated trailer park. There, Joleen catches the eye of two teenage boys, Jimmy and Pinky -- either of whom could be the serial killer currently terrorizing the town.




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