20 best movies like Waxwork (1988)

List of the best movies like Waxwork (1988): Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, ABCs of Death 2, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, The Monster Squad, Big Bad Wolf, Intruders, Dragon Wasps, Night of the Creeps, All Cheerleaders Die, The Convent.

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Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket and blue jeans.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Japan, Nigeria
Duration02:05

Taking all that was great from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses a bizarre killing and promises never to tell what he saw and the "in-between" bit is the story of a woman preparing to cook her newspaper boy for supper.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein's Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes - the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA

In Cameron, a group of hunters is attacked by a wild animal, and Charlie Cowley survives, but sees his brother Scott dying. Seven years later, his teenage nephew Derek Cowley steals the key of his stepfather's cabin in the isolated Fire Road 13, and travels with four classmates and his friend Sam to spend the weekend having a party with booze and sex. However, they are attacked by a Beast that kills his friends in a sadistic way. Sam and Derek survive, and they suspect that his stepfather, Mitchell Toblat, is a werewolf. When Charlie meets Derek and Sam, they decide to collect evidence to prove that Mitchell is the Beast and kill him, but Mitchell discovers their plot and chases the trio.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain
Duration01:40

Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. He creeps into the life of John Farrow after Farrow’s beloved 13-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. The line between the real and the imaginary blurs as fissures start to open within the family unit. It seems that no security measure can keep Hollow Face out.

Markimdb: 3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

When tragedy rocks Blackfoot High, rebellious outsider Maddy Killian shocks the student body by joining the cheerleading squad. This decision drives a rift between Maddy and her ex-girlfriend Leena Miller — a loner who claims to practice the dark arts. After a confrontation with the football team, Maddy and her new cheerleader friends are sent on a supernatural roller coaster ride which leaves a path of destruction none of them may be able to escape. Remake of their own 2001 feature film.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA

A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.

Markimdb: 3
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Mickey, who happens to be a werewolf and a crime boss, gets all worked up and hairy during a private dance at a strip club. Justice, the dancer, grabs the nearest weapon and lands a fatal blow: her silver fountain pen right through Mickey's wolfed-out eye. This ignites a small-scale war between Mickey's group of werewolf mobsters and the sultry strippers of Vixens.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

After three years of therapy Charley Brewster, now a college student, is convinced that Jerry Dandridge was a serial killer posing as a vampire. But when Regine, a mysterious actress and her entourage move into Peter Vincent's apartment block, the nightmare starts again - and this time it's personal!

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:31

A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?

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: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

      In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, melodrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:58

      Sting is Doctor Frankenstein in this remake of the old classic film Bride of Frankenstein. After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:21

      A band of ninja warriors, led by an Iga Ninja named Yamata, witness a giant ball of fire drop from the sky and crash into the forest. When the warriors find and attempt to identify the object, they discover aliens that attack and feast on them. Yamata and the survivors swear vengeance, but in challenging the aliens, they learn that their weapons have no effect.

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      When a sorority girl falls in love with a zombie, it's only a matter of time before a zombie apocalypse is unleashed on campus. The sorority girl discovers that weed is the cure. Now, she must smoke out the whole school before it's too late.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA

      Seven female directors present seven short films.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA

      Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to entertain their college friends.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:32

      Teenage friends must resist the spell of an evil showman staging a house of horrors show in their small town.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize they are in for far more than they bargained for.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration01:17

      A boy declares his love for his girlfriend, only to die the same night. He is brought back to life by his mother as a flesh-craving zombie, who sires more teen undead while trying to control his, er, appetite for his beloved.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom

      A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:40

      A loving father finds a clown suit for his son's birthday party, only to realize the suit is part of an evil curse that turns its wearer into a killer.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Maximillian, the lone survivor of a race of vampires, comes to Brooklyn in search of a way to live past the next full moon. His ticket to survival is Rita, a NYPD detective who doesn't know she's half vampire -- and Maximillian will do whatever's necessary to put her under his spell.

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:31

      The sheriff and his deputies from the first movie decide to take a vacation in the Caribbean. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawed murderer gets inadvertently re-frozen and brought back to life. As if that weren't bad enough, he now has the ability to remain frozen even in tropical temperatures, and he's headed south to settle some old scores.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, comedy
      CountryAustralia

      A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA

      When the body of a man is found completely destroyed in the swamps in Louisiana, the medical investigator Sam Rivers is assigned to investigate the murder. He travels with the biologist Mary Callahan to the location where the victim lived in a floating house and he meets his family and friends. They find that Chinese snake-heads genetically engineered that belong to a wealthy hunter are attacking and killing the locals. While the group fights to survive, the hunter Jeff arrives with his team to hunt the predators.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:32

      A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the brutal murder depicted in the game actually happened -- and he's the killer.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, western
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman enlists a young gunman to fight by his side against his undead victims.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly on American soil until this very night! With titles like Wadzilla, Deathecation, The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, and Zom-B-Movie, Chillerama not only celebrates the golden age of drive-in B horror shlock but also spans over four decades of cinema with something for every bad taste.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Scientific whiz-kid Paul moves to a new town to study artificial intelligence at the local university. One of Paul's high-tech inventions is a growly-voiced robot named BeeBee, and one of his new friends is the lovely girl next door, Samantha. When tragic events take both BeeBee and Samantha from him, the boy genius desperately sets out to restore the love he lost — and, like a modern-day Dr. Frankenstein, discovers too late that he has created a rampaging monster.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, action, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      A beautiful vampire turns a crime lord into a creature of the night.

      Markimdb: 3.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
      CountryRussia, USA
      Duration01:30

      A group of young people stuck in the small Texas town of Fossil Ridge have to fight for their lives against dinosaurs that have been reanimated by a local scientist.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain

      This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being with a gigantic voracious tongue and her poodles are transformed into four drag queens. The whole thing grows even weirder as her boy friend escapes from prison and also encounters the meteorite, as does a mute Nun who is converted into a sexy drum majorette. Pursued by the prison officials who are after him, the whole group eventually come into conflict.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      A group of oddball high school students find themselves trapped in detention with their classmates having turned into a horde of Zombies.

      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: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:58

      Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

      Markimdb: 2.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy, sport
      CountryUSA

      Seventeen years ago, NASCAR racer Cutter McCullough died in a fiery crash. But death can’t stop a man driven by revenge. He and his car are back from the grave to settle a score with his old girlfriend Tammy and his rival JJ Sawyer. Now JJ, Tammy, and their daughter, Jesse, are hitting the road with the Phantom Racer on their tail.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA

      Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story. The beginning of an invasion! However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their own army set with but one goal… To wipe out all mankind! Only the townsfolk on this Halloween night stand in the way of total domination. From the police department, to those trapped in a convenient store, and even those trying to stay alive in the streets, this night will decide the fates of all who walk the planet and thought they were the top of the food chain.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Four teenaged lads set off to get laid in order to stay alive. However, the boys have to attract the girls first in order to complete their mission. Otherwise, they will be hunted and killed by a vicious Werewolf which only seems interested in Virgins.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:26

      With their women having been enslaved by a pack of lesbian vampires, the remaining menfolk of a rural town send two hapless young lads out onto the moors as a sacrifice.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
      Duration01:40

      Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire Dracula.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:41

      On the death of his father, Tim Webber returns to his childhood village in Somerset to find something sinister is disturbing the idyllic peace of the villagers.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
      Duration01:28

      When an archaeological expedition opens an ancient Egyptian tomb, the unimaginable evil of a cursed pharaoh is unleashed.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      Anton is a cheerful but exceedingly non-ambitious 17-year-old stoner who lives to stay buzzed, watch TV, and moon over Molly, the beautiful girl who lives next door. However, it turns out that the old cliché about idle hands being the devil's playground has a kernel of truth after all.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, family
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:23

      A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters. And he is not disappointed.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryItaly, USA
      Duration02:26

      A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:34

      Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that "the Night Flier could perhaps be a vampire"




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