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10 Best Movies Like The Children

If you loved The Children, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Amusement

Amusement

2008★ 5.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children for fans of Horror & Mystery. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

While being interrogated by a police psychiatrist, the near-catatonic Tabitha tries to explain why she and two of her childhood friends are being hunted by a serial killer. The tru...

#2
The Haunting of Molly Hartley

The Haunting of Molly Hartley

2008★ 4.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When teenage Molly Hartley moves to a new town, she's haunted by terrifying visions that may have to do with dark secrets from her past. Something evil lurks just beneath the lush ...

#3
Hideous!

Hideous!

1997★ 5.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Dr. Lorca, an eccentric collector of biological oddities - has just "acquired" his greatest specimen: a horrible mutant born of toxic sewage, but the creature's rightful owner want...

#4
The Children

The Children

1980★ 5.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails....

#5
Nobody Gets Out Alive

Nobody Gets Out Alive

2013★ 3.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children for fans of Horror & Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man....

#6
Inspired to Kill

Inspired to Kill

2016★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Children for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After losing the hero worship of her excitement in a repulsive catastrophe, Kara moves across the country to attend a writing program in Los Angeles. She finds room and board as so...