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Movies that feel like Countdown (2019)

If you loved Countdown, the closest films we have are The Innkeepers (2012), Hokum (2026) and Insidious: The Last Key (2018). All three share Countdown'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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Justin Decdreadunsettlingtense
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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: supernatural

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Hokum
2026 · dir. Damian McCarthy
🍅 90%7.3horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mysterious

When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.

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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 34%5.7horror · thriller

Common ground: supernatural

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

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Julia's Eyes
2010 · dir. Guillem Morales
🍅 90%6.7horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: mysterious

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · dir. Leigh Whannell
🍅 56%6.1horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Heretic
2024 · dir. Scott Beck
🍅 89%7thriller · horror

Both are built on the same subject: religion

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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