Movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street
24 films close to A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
Also Wes Craven · slasher, frightened, murder · Horror · with Robert Englund and John Saxon · New Line Cinema
slasher, murder, ohio · Horror · with Robert Englund and Heather Langenkamp · Smart Egg Pictures
slasher, murder, ohio · Horror · with Robert Englund · Smart Egg Pictures
slasher, nightmare, dreams · Horror · with Robert Englund · Media Home Entertainment
slasher, murder, ohio · Horror · with Robert Englund · New Line Cinema
slasher, boiler room, dreams · Horror · New Line Cinema
Also Wes Craven · slasher, murder, psychopath · Horror · with Heather Langenkamp
slasher, frightened, suspenseful · Horror
murder, dreams · Horror · New Line Cinema
frightened, supernatural, supernatural horror · Horror · New Line Cinema
murder, supernatural, supernatural horror · Horror
slasher, murder, psychopath · Horror
supernatural, suspenseful, supernatural horror · Horror · New Line Cinema
supernatural, suspenseful, supernatural horror · Horror · with Lin Shaye
desperate, supernatural horror · Horror · New Line Cinema
anxious, supernatural · Horror · New Line Cinema
slasher, murder, supernatural · Horror
slasher, murder · Horror
frightened, supernatural, supernatural horror · Horror · New Line Cinema
slasher, dreams, supernatural · Horror
supernatural, supernatural horror · Horror · New Line Cinema
slasher, murder, supernatural horror · Horror
slasher, murder, suspenseful · Horror
slasher, suspenseful, supernatural horror · Horror
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.