MovieMagicScore

Sign In Sign Up

Feed Movies TV World Cinema Stories Best Of Top Rated In Theaters

Macabre

Movies Like Macabre (2009)

Macabre is a 2009 horror, thriller film from Kimo Stamboel with a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Inside and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.

Horror Thriller

Inside poster

Inside

2007

Scarred for life after a harrowing near-death experience, emotionally fragile mother-to-be Sarah is still struggling to come to terms with her loss. Overcome with silent grief, Sarah now seeks solace in work; however, she is on a collision course with sheer terror when a knock at the door in the dead of night chills her bones to the marrow. Now, the raven-haired, late-night visitor in black wants something precious from Sarah, and will stop at nothing to get it.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning poster

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning

2006

Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre poster

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2022

After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.

I Saw the Devil poster

I Saw the Devil

2010

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

Sound of Violence poster

Sound of Violence

2021

As a child, the brutal murder of her family made Alexis regain her hearing along with synesthetic abilities. Now as an adult, she finds solace in the sounds of bodily harm. But when she’s told she might lose her hearing again, she escalates her gruesome sound experiments in a quest to compose her masterpiece.

Halloween Kills poster

Halloween Kills

2021

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

Terrifier poster

Terrifier

2018

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

The Hills Have Eyes poster

The Hills Have Eyes

2006

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

Wrong Turn poster

Wrong Turn

2003

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

The Neon Demon poster

The Neon Demon

2016

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

The Ring poster

The Ring

2002

Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.

A Cat in the Brain poster

A Cat in the Brain

1990

The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Schwarz, uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes of ruining the master’s reputation once and for all.

Lost After Dark poster

Lost After Dark

2014

A group of teens sneak out of their high school dance to cruise around and have some unsupervised fun. When their car runs out of gas on a deserted road, they discover an old farmhouse and the cannibal killer living inside.

Death Proof poster

Death Proof

2007

Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.

Boy Kills World poster

Boy Kills World

2024

When his family is murdered, a deaf-mute named Boy escapes to the jungle and is trained by a mysterious shaman to repress his childish imagination and become an instrument of death.

Nightmare Alley poster

Nightmare Alley

2021

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Blue Ruin poster

Blue Ruin

2014

When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.

The Killer poster

The Killer

2023

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

Thanksgiving poster

Thanksgiving

2023

After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.

Rampo Noir poster

Rampo Noir

2005

An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Macabre?

The top films similar to Macabre by MovieMagicScore are Inside (6.8), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (6.2), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (5.2). Each shares horror/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Macabre worth watching?

Macabre holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.2/10 from 81 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Macabre?

Macabre (2009) is a horror, thriller film directed by Kimo Stamboel, starring Shareefa Daanish, Julie Estelle, Ario Bayu.

Where can I find more recommendations like Macabre?

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

Keep exploring

Movies like Inside Movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning Movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre Movies like I Saw the Devil Movies like Sound of Violence Movies like Halloween Kills

About movies like Macabre

This ranked list pairs Macabre (2009), a horror and thriller film from Kimo Stamboel, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Shareefa Daanish 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.

← Back to Macabre