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Movies that feel like Color Out of Space (2020)

If you loved Color Out of Space, the closest films we have are The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021), Escape Room (2019) and Us (2019). All three share Color Out of Space's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Richard Stanleydreadunsettlingcerebraltwistytense

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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
2021 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 56%6.2horror · mystery · thriller

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

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Escape Room
2019 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 51%6.4horror · mystery · thriller

Twisty and tense in the same breath

The difference: Not nearly as cerebral as Color Out of Space

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

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Us
2019 · dir. Jordan Peele
🍅 93%6.8horror · mystery · thriller

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

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A Cure for Wellness
2017 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 42%6.4horror · mystery · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%6.4horror · thriller · mystery

Cabin sits at the heart of each

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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The Invisible Man
2020 · dir. Leigh Whannell
7.1thriller · science fiction · horror

Thriller built on unease, twice over

When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%6.7horror · mystery · thriller

Both trade on twists more than on being mystery

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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You're Next
2013 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 79%6.6horror · thriller · mystery

Tense horror in both cases

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

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Sinister
2012 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 64%6.8horror · thriller · mystery

Mystery built on dread, twice over

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

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The Mist
2007 · dir. Frank Darabont
🍅 74%7.1horror · science fiction · thriller

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

Unsettling thriller in both cases

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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The Others
2001 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%7.6horror · mystery · thriller

Horror with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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