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Movies that feel likeAnnabelle: Creation (2017)

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

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

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Veronica (2017).

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David F. Sandbergdreadunsettling
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Annabelle (2014) · Annabelle Comes Home (2019)

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

Two things both keep coming back to: halloween and demon

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

Both land dread and unease at once

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

One thread runs through both: 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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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%★ 6horrorPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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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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Terrified
2018 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorRent or buy

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

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

Common ground in both: spin off and demonic possession

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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: demonic possession

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

Horror built on unease, twice over

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

A streak of unease through both

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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

Both play horror straight

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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