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Movies that feel like A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

If you loved A Nightmare on Elm Street, the closest films we have are I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Friday the 13th (2009) and Shutter (2004). All three share A Nightmare on Elm Street's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

πŸ… 14% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Samuel Bayerdreadunsettlingtwistytensedreamlikerelentless

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I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 Β· dir. Jim Gillespie
πŸ… 47%β˜… 5.9horror Β· thriller Β· mystery

The same two preoccupations: revenge, and slasher

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

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Friday the 13th
2009 Β· dir. Marcus Nispel
πŸ… 26%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: slasher

The difference: Lighter on twists

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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Shutter
2004 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

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House of Wax
2005 Β· dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller Β· mystery

Both land dread and unease at once

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

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Unfriended
2014 Β· dir. Levan Gabriadze
πŸ… 62%β˜… 5.6horror Β· mystery

The same mix in both: twists, then relentlessness

While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.

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The Woman in Black
2012 Β· dir. James Watkins
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.4drama Β· horror Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on horror

The difference: Played as drama first

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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Martyrs
2008 Β· dir. Pascal Laugier
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Common ground: child abuse

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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The Skin I Live In
2011 Β· dir. Pedro AlmodΓ³var
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.6drama Β· horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

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Devil
2010 Β· dir. John Erick Dowdle
πŸ… 49%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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Blade II
2002 Β· dir. Guillermo del Toro
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.7fantasy Β· horror Β· action

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

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Red Riding Hood
2011 Β· dir. Catherine Hardwicke
πŸ… 10%β˜… 5.4thriller Β· drama Β· fantasy

Thriller built on dream logic, twice over

Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.

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The Grudge
2004 Β· dir. Takashi Shimizu
πŸ… 41%β˜… 5.9horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Unsettling horror in both cases

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

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