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Movies that feel like Anaconda (1997)

If you loved Anaconda, the closest films we have are 47 Meters Down (2017), 30 Days of Night (2007) and Berberian Sound Studio (2012). All three share Anaconda'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 Amazon Prime Video, Criterion Channel and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — and deadliest — snake.

🍅 41% Rotten Tomatoes4.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luis Llosaepicdreadunsettlingtense
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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%5.6horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: creature

The difference: None of the scale Anaconda is built on

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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30 Days of Night
2007 · dir. David Slade
🍅 51%6.6horror · thriller

Common ground: creature

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.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: movie business

The difference: Reviewed even better

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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The Descent
2005 · dir. Neil Marshall
🍅 87%7.2adventure · horror

The same preoccupation in both: expedition

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

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

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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

Tense horror, and it commits to that

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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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%7.4horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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Cannibal Holocaust
1980 · dir. Ruggero Deodato
🍅 65%5.8horror

One thread runs through both: snake

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%7.2horror · thriller

Both lean on unease more than on adventure

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%5.8thriller · horror

Tense horror in both cases

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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

Thriller built on dread, twice over

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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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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