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Movies Like The Shining
The Shining sends a family to an empty mountain hotel for the winter and lets isolation do the rest, as cabin fever and the building itself start working on Jack Torrance. Expect the same cold mix of haunted places, fraying minds and families stranded with no easy way out.
Matched to The Shining (1980), rated 5/5 by the HorroRated team. Our own picks come first, then the closest matches by director, subgenre and mood.
- Pick
Why it fits
- Our pick if you liked The Shining
- Stephen King
- Supernatural
- Psychological
Streaming on Prime Video, HBO Max
Carrie White has spent her whole life absorbing cruelty from her mother and her classmates. Prom night is when the account comes due.
Black Phone 2
2025 · MovieWhy it fits
- Our pick if you liked The Shining
- Supernatural
- Psychological
Streaming on Netflix
The supernatural telephone mythology extends into a new setting with a new Grabber while connecting back to the original film's characters.
PickThe Conjuring
2013 · MovieWhy it fits
- Our pick if you liked The Shining
- Haunted House
- Supernatural
- Psychological
Streaming on HBO Max
Ed and Lorraine Warren are called to examine a Rhode Island farmhouse and find the family has been living with something for years.
Vacancy
2007 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Shining in our reviews
- Haunted Location
- Isolation
- Psychological
David and Amy Fox check into a remote motel and find a stack of tapes that contain footage of previous guests being murdered in the same room.
Magic
1978 · MovieWhy it fits
- Paired with The Shining in our reviews
- Slow Burn
- Psychological
Streaming on Prime Video, Shudder, AMC+
Corky Withers builds his stage act around a foul-mouthed ventriloquist dummy named Fats. The success is real, but so is the fact that Corky can't seem to control what Fats says or does.
House of Darkness
2022 · MovieWhy it fits
- Gothic
- Slow Burn
- Isolation
Streaming on Prime Video, Tubi
Hap drives Mina home to her remote gothic estate after meeting at a bar. She's charming, the house is beautiful, and his luck is about to run out.
PickSpeak No Evil
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- Haunted Location
- Slow Burn
- Isolation
James and Louise accept Ben and Karin's invitation to their rural Danish home for a weekend that the hosts have been planning very carefully.
Psycho III
1986 · MovieWhy it fits
- Haunted Location
- Gothic
- Slow Burn
Streaming on Netflix, AMC+
A runaway nun checks into the Bates Motel looking for somewhere quiet. Norman is genuinely trying to keep things normal.
PickThe Long Walk
2025 · MovieWhy it fits
- Stephen King
- Isolation
- Psychological
Streaming on HBO Max
One hundred boys compete in the Long Walk, a national event in an alternate America where the last walker remaining receives any prize they request and the rest die where they stop.
PickNosferatu
2024 · MovieWhy it fits
- Gothic
- Slow Burn
- Supernatural
Streaming on Hulu
Thomas Hutter travels to Transylvania to complete a real estate transaction with Count Orlok. The consequences follow him home to Wisborg and his wife Ellen.