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Movies that feel like 30 Days of Night (2007)

If you loved 30 Days of Night, the closest films we have are Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015), 47 Meters Down (2017) and [REC]² (2009). All three share 30 Days of Night's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

🍅 51% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Sladedreadunsettlingtense

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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · dir. Leigh Whannell
🍅 56%6.1horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: horror

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%5.6horror · thriller

Common ground: creature

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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Julia's Eyes
2010 · dir. Guillem Morales
🍅 90%6.7horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%6.4horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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Drag Me to Hell
2009 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 92%6.6horror · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

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Saw VI
2009 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 39%6.1horror · thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%6.3horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Friday the 13th
2009 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 26%5.5horror · thriller

A streak of tension through both

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Horror approached the same way

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Ring
1998 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 98%7.2horror · thriller

Both play thriller straight

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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