Movies like Scream 7 (2026)

Name: Scream 7
Released: 2026

9 films to watch after Scream 7, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.

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Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

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Shares Horror and Mystery with Scream 7.

Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a gruesome set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts due to a freak accident one year earlier. We soon learn the truth behind her accident and what is going on.
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Scream (1996)

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Shares Crime, Horror and Mystery with Scream 7.

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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Children of the Corn: Runaway (2018)

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Shares Horror with Scream 7.

The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.
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Scream 4 (2011)

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Shares Horror and Mystery with Scream 7.

Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.
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Slumber Party Massacre (2021)

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Shares Horror with Scream 7.

Dana, daughter of the only survivor of a massacre in 1993, is going on a weekend trip with her friends. After their car breaks down in the very same town where her mother once fought the Driller Killer, Dana and her friends must come face-to-face with the man who has haunted her mother’s life for the past 30 years.
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Scream 2 (1997)

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Shares Horror and Mystery with Scream 7.

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.
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Scream 3 (2000)

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Shares Horror and Mystery with Scream 7.

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.
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Scream VI (2023)

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Shares Horror and Crime with Scream 7.

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
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Saw III (2006)

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Shares Horror and Crime with Scream 7.

Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.