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Movies that feel likeCarrie (1976)

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

If you loved Carrie, the closest films we have are The Shining (1980), Martyrs (2008) and Repulsion (1965). All three share Carrie'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 Wait Until Dark (1967).

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The Shining
1980 · dir. Stanley Kubrick
🍅 84%★ 8.4horror · thrillerMax

Both are working the same pair: child abuse, isolation

The difference: Easier on the relentlessness than Carrie

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

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Martyrs
2008 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 66%★ 7horror · drama · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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Repulsion
1965 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 96%★ 7.5drama · thriller · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Trades the relentlessness of Carrie for an angle of its own

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

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Sleep Tight
2011 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 91%★ 7.2thriller · horrorPrime Video

Both land tension and loneliness at once

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.

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Cape Fear
1991 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 77%★ 7.3drama · crime · thrillerPrime Video

Common ground: child abuse

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Carrie does

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

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Hush
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 92%★ 6.6horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

One thread runs through both: isolation

A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

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Hannibal Rising
2007 · dir. Peter Webber
🍅 16%★ 6.1crime · thriller · horrorPrime VideoPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

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Friday the 13th
1980 · dir. Sean S. Cunningham
🍅 50%★ 6.4horrorNetflixParamount+

Relentless horror, and it commits to that

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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I Spit on Your Grave
2010 · dir. Steven R. Monroe
🍅 32%★ 6.2thriller · crime · horror

Thriller built on grit, twice over

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 19%★ 5.6horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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I Saw the Devil
2010 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 83%★ 7.8thriller · horror

Unsettling thriller in both cases

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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Wait Until Dark
1967 · dir. Terence Young
🍅 96%★ 7.7thriller · crime · horror

Both lean on tension more than on horror

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

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