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Movies that feel like Deep Red (1975)

If you loved Deep Red, the closest films we have are Suspiria (1977), Coma (1978) and Noroi: The Curse (2005). All three share Deep Red'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 Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Dario Argentodreadunsettlingtwistytense
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Suspiria
1977 Β· dir. Dario Argento
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.3horror

Dario Argento directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the twists Deep Red is built on

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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Coma
1978 Β· dir. Michael Crichton
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.9thriller Β· mystery Β· horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 Β· dir. Koji Shiraishi
β˜… 6.8horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: psychic

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 2000s show

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

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Long Weekend
1979 Β· dir. Colin Eggleston
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

The same mix in both: twists, then tension

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho IbÑñez Serrador
β˜… 6.8horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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Black Christmas
1974 Β· dir. Bob Clark
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.1horror Β· mystery Β· crime

One thread runs through both: murder

The difference: Missing the tension of Deep Red

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 Β· dir. Luigi Bazzoni
β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

Mystery built on unease, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Deep Red does

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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The Nameless
1999 Β· dir. Jaume BalaguerΓ³
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.8thriller Β· mystery Β· horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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The Legend of Hell House
1973 Β· dir. John Hough
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.6horror Β· mystery

Common ground: psychic

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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Marrowbone
2017 Β· dir. Sergio G. SΓ‘nchez
πŸ… 49%β˜… 6.7thriller Β· horror Β· mystery

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 Β· dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
β˜… 7.2mystery Β· horror Β· drama

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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House on Haunted Hill
1959 Β· dir. William Castle
πŸ… 80%β˜… 6.7horror Β· mystery

Unsettling mystery in both cases

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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