Movies like In the Mouth of Madness
In the Mouth of Madness (1995) is a horror movie directed by John Carpenter. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Witch (2016)
★ 7.0 · 7,947 votes · Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
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2. Silent Hill (2006)
★ 6.6 · 5,142 votes · Horror, Mystery
Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears, and Rose embarks on a horrific journey to get her back and begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
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3. Black Swan (2010)
★ 7.7 · 15,971 votes · Drama, Thriller, Horror
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
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4. Event Horizon (1997)
★ 6.6 · 3,521 votes · Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
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5. The Thing (1982)
★ 8.1 · 8,348 votes · Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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6. Dark City (1998)
★ 7.3 · 3,396 votes · Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
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7. Twelve Monkeys (1995)
★ 7.6 · 9,469 votes · Sci-Fi, Thriller, Mystery
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
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8. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
★ 7.2 · 7,642 votes · Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
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9. Weapons (2025)
★ 7.3 · 4,109 votes · Horror, Mystery
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
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10. The Night House (2021)
★ 6.5 · 1,421 votes · Horror, Mystery
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
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11. The Awakening (2011)
★ 6.4 · 1,565 votes · Horror, Thriller, Mystery
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
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12. Spider (2002)
★ 6.6 · 977 votes · Mystery, Thriller
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
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13. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
★ 6.5 · 2,955 votes · Horror, Mystery
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
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14. Hokum (2026)
★ 6.8 · 954 votes · Horror, Thriller
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.
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15. The Ritual (2017)
★ 6.3 · 3,619 votes · Horror, Mystery
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
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16. The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
★ 6.8 · 2,299 votes · Thriller, Crime, Horror
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
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17. The Mortuary Collection (2020)
★ 6.7 · 502 votes · Fantasy, Horror
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
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18. The Watchers (2024)
★ 6.3 · 1,750 votes · Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
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