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Movies that feel likeAnnabelle (2014)

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

If you loved Annabelle, the closest films we have are The Conjuring 2 (2016), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) and Mama (2013). All three share Annabelle's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

🍅 28% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John R. Leonettidreadunsettling
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Annabelle: Creation (2017) · Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%★ 7.3horrorMax

The same two preoccupations: halloween, and spirit

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

One thread runs through both: spirit

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: ghost

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%★ 5.5horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

Common ground: demon

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%★ 6.7horrorPrime Video

Common ground in both: evil doll and killer doll

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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The Nun
2018 · dir. Corin Hardy
🍅 24%★ 5.4horrorMax

Both are working the same pair: spin off, demonic possession

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%★ 5horror

Both are built on the same subject: demon

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%★ 5.5horrorPeacock

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%★ 5.3horrorPeacock

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%★ 6.1horrorPeacock

Unsettling horror in both cases

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%★ 4.9horrorHulu

Both lean on dread more than on horror

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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