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New Nightmare

Movies Like New Nightmare (1994)

New Nightmare is a 1994 fantasy, horror, mystery film from Wes Craven with a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with A Nightmare on Elm Street and A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge.

Fantasy Horror Mystery

A Nightmare on Elm Street poster

A Nightmare on Elm Street

1984

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge poster

A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge

1985

A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors poster

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987

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.

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master poster

A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master

1988

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.

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child poster

A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child

1989

The pregnant Alice finds Freddy Krueger striking through the sleeping mind of her unborn child, hoping to be reborn into the real world.

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare poster

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

1991

Just when you thought it was safe to sleep, Freddy Krueger returns in this sixth installment of the Nightmare on Elm Street films, as psychologist Maggie Burroughs, tormented by recurring nightmares, meets a patient with the same horrific dreams. Their quest for answers leads to a certain house on Elm Street -- where the nightmares become reality.

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Silent Hill

2006

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.

Scream 3 poster

Scream 3

2000

While Sidney Prescott and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.

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Evil Dead Rise

2023

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

Scream 4 poster

Scream 4

2011

Ten years have passed, and Sidney Prescott has put herself back together thanks to her writing. However, her return to Woodsboro sparks the return of the Ghostface Killer.

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives poster

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

1986

Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan poster

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

1989

Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning poster

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning

1985

Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters.

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The Black Phone

2022

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Freddy vs. Jason poster

Freddy vs. Jason

2003

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

Friday the 13th Part III poster

Friday the 13th Part III

1982

An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve friends. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason, who stalks them at every turn...

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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

1993

Jason Voorhees is tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, reborn with the bone-chilling ability to assume the identity of anyone he touches.

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Vanilla Sky

2001

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

2019

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

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Black Phone 2

2025

Four years after escaping The Grabber, Finney Blake is struggling with his life after captivity. When his sister Gwen begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp, the siblings become determined to solve the mystery and confront a killer who has grown more powerful in death and more significant to them than either could imagine.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like New Nightmare?

The top films similar to New Nightmare by MovieMagicScore are A Nightmare on Elm Street (7.3), A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (5.8), A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (6.7). Each shares fantasy/horror/mystery themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is New Nightmare worth watching?

New Nightmare holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.5/10 from 1,512 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is New Nightmare?

New Nightmare (1994) is a fantasy, horror, mystery film directed by Wes Craven, starring Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Hughes.

Where can I find more recommendations like New Nightmare?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more fantasy recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like New Nightmare

This ranked list pairs New Nightmare (1994), a fantasy and horror and mystery film from Wes Craven, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Heather Langenkamp take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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