Movies like Weapons
If Weapons's mix of witch, small town and pennsylvania, usa stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Weapons's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · Directed by André Øvredal · 108 min6.5
Why you'll like itWith Austin Abrams · Shares: small town, folk horror · Also horror and 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,…
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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · Directed by Daniel Myrick · 81 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: witch, witchcraft, folk horror · Also horror and mystery
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
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Sinister
2012 · Directed by Scott Derrickson · 110 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: pennsylvania, usa, supernatural horror · Also horror and mystery
True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit.
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The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025 · Directed by Michael Chaves · 136 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: pennsylvania, usa, supernatural horror · From the same decade (2020s)
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
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Scream
1996 · Directed by Wes Craven · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: small town · Also horror and mystery
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
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Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Directed by Tim Burton · 105 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: small town · Also mystery and horror
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…
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Fear Street: 1666
2021 · Directed by Leigh Janiak · 115 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: witchcraft · Also mystery and horror · From the same decade (2020s)
In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
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The Exorcist
1973 · Directed by William Friedkin · 122 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: supernatural horror
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
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Night of the Living Dead
1968 · Directed by George A. Romero · 96 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: pennsylvania, usa
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · Directed by Wes Craven · 91 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: supernatural horror
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…
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Witch Hunt
2021 · Directed by Elle Callahan · 92 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: witch · From the same decade (2020s)
In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to…
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Pumpkinhead
1988 · Directed by Stan Winston · 86 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: witch
When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.