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Movies that feel like Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

If you loved Cannibal Holocaust, the closest films we have are The Wicker Man (1973), The Fog (1980) and Jaws 2 (1978). All three share Cannibal Holocaust'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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ruggero Deodatodreadunsettling
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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%7.5horror

The same preoccupation in both: ritual

The difference: Reviewed even better

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 76%6.8horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Jaws 2
1978 · dir. Jeannot Szwarc
🍅 56%5.8horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: animal attack

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Cannibal Holocaust does

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
6.9horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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

Unsettling horror in both cases

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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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%7.3horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%6.7horror

Both sit in the same unsettling register

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

Cut from the same horror cloth

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Cannibal Holocaust does

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 Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

Both play horror straight

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%7.8horror

Horror of the same temperament

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%7.4drama · horror

The same horror instincts

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 85%7.4horror

Both are horror through and through

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

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