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Movies that feel likeBlack Christmas (1974)

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

If you loved Black Christmas, the closest films we have are The Innocents (1961), House on Haunted Hill (1959) and Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968). All three share Black Christmas' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Long Weekend (1979).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bob Clarkdreadunsettlingtwistygritty
9 of 12 streaming nowAmazon Prime Video · Hulu · Paramount Plus Premium

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The Innocents
1961 · dir. Jack Clayton
🍅 95%★ 7.7horror · mystery

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Black Christmas does

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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House on Haunted Hill
1959 · dir. William Castle
🍅 80%★ 6.7horror · mysteryPrime VideoMax

Horror built on twists, twice over

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2mystery · horror · drama

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Black Christmas does

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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Scream
1996 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 78%★ 7.4crime · horror · mysteryHuluParamount+

Two things both keep coming back to: serial killer and slasher

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1990s show

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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Longlegs
2024 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 85%★ 6.5crime · horror · mysteryHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.

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Coma
1978 · dir. Michael Crichton
🍅 81%★ 6.9thriller · mystery · horror

Unsettling crime in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Black Christmas does

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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Suspiria
1977 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%★ 7.3horror · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on horror

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Mystery with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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Deep Red
1975 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%★ 7.5horror · mystery · thriller

Common ground: murder

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%★ 6.5horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Same instincts, 5 years apart

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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Black Christmas
2019 · dir. Sophia Takal
🍅 41%★ 3.5horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: christmas horror

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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 Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%★ 5.8thriller · mystery · horror

Horror with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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