Movies Similar to The Last Matinee

Shadow of the Vampire(2000)

Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."

Midnight Movie(2008)

At a seedy theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970s horror film, unaware that the director has something more in store for them.

Demons(1985)

A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.

Coming Soon(2008)

Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange events befall them following the viewing.

I Saw the TV Glow(2024)

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

The Tingler(1959)

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

Homens mortos não conta história(2027)

Cigarette Burns(2005)

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.

Sala Escura(2024)

A movie preview session for just nine spectators takes place in a large city hall. The movie starts playing and everyone gets ready to enjoy the entertainment, but the screen goes dark. After an initial confusion, an image appears of a girl being coldly tortured by a man dressed as Bate Bola, the carnival clown. The spectators are confused and worried. Then they discover that they are trapped inside the movie theater. From then on, they are tortured and killed. Will there be a survivor?

Blood Theatre(1984)

Three young movie theater employees are given the task of re-opening a long-closed, old-time theater at which, many years before, a shocking series of grisly murders took place. It seems many more murders have occurred since then but all of this remains unknown to these three young upstart employees hoping to finally make it big on their own. As they approach the grand re-opening night, things keep getting stranger and more unsettling with items suddenly starting to move around by themselves without any seen aid and a terrifying old man seemingly haunting the premises.

Nosferatu(2025)

Nosferatu arrives in a town escaping from Van Helsing. He brings not only his curse, but ghosts from his past. In this escape, he dives into a macabre dance searching for an actress and faces the horror of eternity and the pain of an endless existence.

Celluloid Bloodbath(2012)

DEFINITION: 'Celluloid' - Motion picture film, cinema film. 'Bloodbath' - Savage, indiscriminate killing, a massacre. CELLULOID BLOODBATH: MORE PREVUES FROM HELL - the long-awaited sequel to 1987's horror cult classic, MAD RON'S PREVUES FROM HELL. An awesome collection of 61 over-the-top horror movie prevues, from the golden Grindhouse age, spanning the 1960's through the 1980's! Also features commentary from film makers, actors, critics and fans, that make this a true, incredibly entertaining, one-of-a-kind movie-going experience!

Closing Shift

KC, a movie theater employee on the brink of quitting, works the closing shift with her manager, Reggie. When the night takes a sinister turn due to their customers, KC and Reggie must figure out how they will make it out alive and decide whether they still want to work at the movie theater.

MaXXXine(2024)

In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.

Ett öga för film(2024)

I Am Your Punishment(1996)

An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.

Cinema According to Alex(2025)

A young college student gets triggered by the resentment of his passion project by his professor and students. When he feels like his classmates think cinema is boring and uninteresting, he presents them a lesson of his own.

Coming to a Theatre Near You(2025)

As the staff close a theatre after hours, their work takes a disturbing turn.

Notting Hill(1999)

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.

Matinee Baby(2024)

In this raunchy and outlandish queer comedy, best friends Robby and Noah-Lee – employees at Portland's historic Clinton Street Theater – find themselves confronted by a parade of increasingly wacky, genre-tinged suitors.