Movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street
24 films close to A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
slasher, nightmare becomes reality, supernatural · Horror, Thriller · New Line Cinema
boiler room, dreams, slasher · Horror · New Line Cinema
dark fantasy, reality vs fantasy, supernatural · Horror, Mystery
slasher, nightmare becomes reality, supernatural · Horror, Thriller · New Line Cinema
sexual predator, supernatural, supernatural horror · Horror, Mystery
dreams, supernatural, supernatural horror · Horror, Thriller · New Line Cinema
supernatural, slasher · Horror, Mystery, Thriller
reboot, slasher, remake · Horror, Thriller
slasher, remake, revenge · Horror, Mystery · with Katie Cassidy
sexual predator, remake, revenge · Horror, Thriller
dreams, complex, supernatural · Horror, Mystery · New Line Cinema
nightmares, dreams, supernatural · Horror, Thriller
repressed memory, supernatural horror · Horror, Mystery, Thriller
revenge · Horror, Mystery, Thriller
dreams, supernatural, supernatural horror · Horror · New Line Cinema
reboot, slasher, remake · Horror
dreams, supernatural, supernatural horror · Horror, Thriller
slasher, revenge · Horror, Thriller
supernatural, revenge · Horror, Thriller
nightmares, supernatural horror · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · with Kyle Gallner
dreams · Horror, Mystery · New Line Cinema
revenge · Horror, Thriller · Platinum Dunes
remake, revenge · Mystery, Thriller
child abuse · Horror, Mystery, Thriller
More in this territory
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.