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Movies that feel like A Classic Horror Story (2021)

If you loved A Classic Horror Story, the closest films we have are The Empty Man (2020), Hellhole (2022) and The Little Stranger (2018). All three share A Classic Horror Story'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.

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

πŸ… 55% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Roberto De Feodreadunsettlingtwisty
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If A Classic Horror Story hit the spot, these will too

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The Empty Man
2020 Β· dir. David Prior
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery

Common ground: cult

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Hellhole
2022 Β· dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.8horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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The Little Stranger
2018 Β· dir. Lenny Abrahamson
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.5mystery Β· horror

Horror with a pulse of twists, in both cases

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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The Medium
2021 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery

Both lean on dread more than on mystery

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 Β· dir. Jung Bum-shik
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery

Unsettling horror in both cases

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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The Lodge
2020 Β· dir. Veronika Franz
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6horror Β· mystery

Mystery built on twists, twice over

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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Black Christmas
2019 Β· dir. Sophia Takal
πŸ… 41%β˜… 3.5horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

A group of sorority pledges are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young women discover that the killer is part of an underground campus conspiracy.

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The Whole Truth
2021 Β· dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
β˜… 5.2horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Mystery with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than A Classic Horror Story does

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery

The shared currency is twists

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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The Wailing
2016 Β· dir. Na Hong-jin
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.4horror Β· mystery

Cut from the same horror cloth

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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Exhuma
2024 Β· dir. Jang Jae-hyun
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.9mystery Β· horror Β· thriller

Both play mystery straight

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remainsβ€”and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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Jigsaw
2017 Β· dir. Michael Spierig
πŸ… 32%β˜… 5.7horror Β· mystery

Both working the same horror territory

Law enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabolical new game that's only just begun.

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