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Movies that feel likeBone Tomahawk (2015)

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

If you loved Bone Tomahawk, the closest films we have are The House That Jack Built (2018), 1922 (2017) and Raw (2017). All three share Bone Tomahawk's contemplative and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Sadness (2021).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. S. Craig Zahlercontemplativedreadunsettlinggritty
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The House That Jack Built
2018 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 59%★ 6.8drama · horror · crimeRent or buy

Both land stillness and dread at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

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1922
2017 · dir. Zak Hilditch
🍅 92%★ 6.2horror · crime · dramaNetflix

Common ground: murder

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Bone Tomahawk does

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

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Raw
2017 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 92%★ 6.9horror · drama

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Trades the grit of Bone Tomahawk for an angle of its own

Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.

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Green Room
2016 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 90%★ 6.9horror · crime · thrillerNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: gore

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Bone Tomahawk

Members of a punk rock band and a tough young woman are forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.

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Let the Right One In
2008 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 98%★ 7.8horror · dramaPrime VideoPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: murder

When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.

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Audition
2000 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 81%★ 7.1horror · drama

Horror built on stillness, twice over

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

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Saw 3D
2010 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 9%★ 5.5horror · crime

Western with a pulse of grit, in both cases

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.

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The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
2021 · dir. Maurício Eça
★ 5.9crime · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Dread-soaked drama in both cases

Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.

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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%★ 6.4horror · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: ambush

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 20%★ 6.7crime · drama · horror

Both lean on unease more than on horror

When a young girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
🍅 71%★ 5.8horror · drama

Western built on grit, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

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The Sadness
2021 · dir. Rob Jabbaz
🍅 88%★ 6.5horror · thrillerRent or buy

Horror built on dread, twice over

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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