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Movies that feel like Climax (2018)

If you loved Climax, the closest films we have are The Lure (2015), They Look Like People (2016) and mother! (2017). All three share Climax's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Paramount Plus Premium and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gaspar Noécontemplativedreadunsettlingstylishdreamlikeparanoid
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The Lure
2015 · dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska
🍅 89%6.2horror · music · fantasy

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Climax

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

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They Look Like People
2016 · dir. Perry Blackshear
🍅 92%5.8drama · horror · mystery

One thread runs through both: paranoia

The difference: None of the style Climax is built on

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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mother!
2017 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 68%6.6horror · drama

Common ground in both: pregnancy and surrealism

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

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The Invitation
2016 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 90%6.6thriller · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Climax does

Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.

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Barbarian
2022 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 92%7horror · mystery · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: sexual abuse

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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The Last Wave
1977 · dir. Peter Weir
🍅 78%6.9drama · mystery · horror

The same preoccupation in both: surrealism

The difference: 41 years apart, and the 1970s show

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Contemplative where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Hostel
2006 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 60%5.9horror

Horror built on paranoia, twice over

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

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Midsommar
2019 · dir. Ari Aster
🍅 83%7.1horror · drama · mystery

Common ground: hallucinogenic drug

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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Underworld: Awakening
2012 · dir. Björn Stein
🍅 26%6.3fantasy · action · horror

Dread-soaked drama, and it commits to that

Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. Now Selene must battle the humans and a frightening new breed of super Lycans to ensure the death dealers' survival.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%6.9fantasy · horror

Music with a pulse of unease, in both cases

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Smile
2022 · dir. Parker Finn
🍅 79%6.5horror · mystery

Both lean on paranoia more than on horror

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

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