If You Liked A Nightmare on Elm Street, Watch These Next

Finished A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like A Nightmare on Elm Street, most of them are horror.

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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026

1.A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors(1987)
6.7HorrorThrillerFantasyAlso horror
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
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2.A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master(1988)
5.9HorrorThrillerAlso horror
Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may be able to defeat him for good.
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3.Haunt(2019)
6.7HorrorThrillerAlso horror
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.
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4.The Children(2008)
6.1HorrorMysteryThrillerAlso horror
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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5.Halloween(1978)
7.6HorrorThrillerAlso horror
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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6.Terrifier 3(2024)
6.8HorrorAlso horror
Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined…
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7.Scream(1996)
7.4CrimeHorrorMysteryAlso horror
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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8.Play Dead(2025)
6.2HorrorAlso horror
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
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9.Ginger Snaps(2000)
6.9HorrorFantasyAlso horror
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
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10.Mirrors(2008)
6.3HorrorMysteryAlso horror
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
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11.Mother's Day(2010)
6.5CrimeHorrorThrillerAlso horror
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
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12.Barbarian(2022)
6.9HorrorMysteryThrillerAlso horror
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.
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13.The Exorcist(1973)
7.7HorrorAlso horror
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
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14.Becky(2020)
6.3ThrillerHorrorActionAlso horror
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
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15.Trick(2019)
5.8HorrorThrillerAlso horror
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
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16.Dagon(2001)
6.1FantasyHorrorThrillerAlso horror
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. Running for his life, he uncovers Imboca's secret..they worship Dagon, a…
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17.Halloween H20: 20 Years Later(1998)
6.0HorrorThrillerAlso horror
Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers,…
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18.Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988)
6.2HorrorThrillerAlso horror
Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.
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19.Ghostland(2018)
7.4HorrorAlso horror
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
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20.Nightmare Cinema(2018)
5.8HorrorAlso horror
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.
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