Movies Like The House on Skull Mountain (1974)

The House on Skull Mountain is a 1974 horror, thriller film from Ron Honthaner with a MovieMagicScore of 4.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with King of the Zombies and Night of the Skull.

Horror Thriller

King of the Zombies

1941

During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.

5.2

MagicScore

Night of the Skull

1974

After Lord Archibald Marion is brutally murdered by an unknown assailant, his bitter and feuding family members gather for a reading of the will, setting into motion an increasingly chilling series of deaths when their arrival is marked by a second grisly killing.

6.0

MagicScore

The Cat and the Canary

1939

Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.

6.9

MagicScore

The Ghost Breakers

1940

After intrepid working girl Mary Carter becomes the new owner of a reputedly haunted mansion located off the Cuban coast, a stranger phones warning her to stay away from the castle. Undaunted, Mary sets sail for Cuba with a stowaway in her trunk—wise-cracking Larry Lawrence, a radio announcer who helps Mary get to the bottom of the voodoo magic, zombies and ghosts that supposedly curse the spooky estate.

6.5

MagicScore

Two on a Guillotine

1965

The daughter of a dead magician who accidentally killed his wife, her mother, while performing a guillotine trick must spend the night in his house in order to collect her inheritance. Is the house haunted or is it all magic?

6.1

MagicScore

13 Ghosts

1960

The reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his sprawling mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune, but along with the property itself, they have also inherited the occultist's collection of thirteen ghosts.

5.7

MagicScore

National Lampoon's Gold Diggers

2003

Calvin and Leonard, two broke losers, are arrested for trying to rob rich old sisters Doris and Betty. The women have a change of heart, drop the charges and invite the the boys over to their mansion. Calvin decides he and Leonard should marry the women, and, when they soon die, live off the inheritance. The ladies, however, have run into their own financial troubles and wed the boys with plans of murdering them for insurance money.

3.2

MagicScore

Sapphire

1959

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

7.0

MagicScore

The Settlers

2023

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

6.7

MagicScore

#10

Thirteen Women

1932

Thirteen women who were schoolmates ask a swami to cast their horoscopes. The news they receive is not good for any of them.

6.3

MagicScore

#11

A Wrinkle in Time

2018

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

5.1

MagicScore

#12

J.D.'s Revenge

1976

Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.

5.7

MagicScore

#13

Def by Temptation

1990

An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.

4.7

MagicScore

#14

The Serpent and the Rainbow

1988

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

6.4

MagicScore

#15

Child's Play 2

1990

Chucky is reconstructed by a toy factory to dispel the negative publicity surrounding the doll, and tracks young Andy Barclay to a foster home where the chase begins again.

6.3

MagicScore

#16

The Witches

1966

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.

6.0

MagicScore

#17

The Believers

1987

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

6.0

MagicScore

#18

Curse of Chucky

2013

After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.

5.9

MagicScore

#19

Child's Play 3

1991

Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance after being recreated from a mass of melted plastic.

5.9

MagicScore

#20

Cult of Chucky

2017

Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family... until a string of grisly deaths occur after her psychiatrist introduces a new group therapy tool -- a "Good Guy" doll.

5.8

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The House on Skull Mountain?

The top films similar to The House on Skull Mountain by MovieMagicScore are King of the Zombies (5.2), Night of the Skull (6.0), The Cat and the Canary (6.9). Each shares horror/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The House on Skull Mountain worth watching?

The House on Skull Mountain holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.5/10 from 22 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The House on Skull Mountain?

The House on Skull Mountain (1974) is a horror, thriller film directed by Ron Honthaner, starring Victor French, Janee Michelle, Jean Durand.

Where can I find more recommendations like The House on Skull Mountain?

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

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About movies like The House on Skull Mountain

This ranked list pairs The House on Skull Mountain (1974), a horror and thriller film from Ron Honthaner, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Victor French 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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