
Movies that feel likeDoctor Sleep (2019)
If you loved Doctor Sleep, the closest films we have are Oculus (2014), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) and Nosferatu (2024). All three share Doctor Sleep'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 November (2017).
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If Doctor Sleep hit the spot, these will too
Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Shining (1980)

Mike Flanagan working the same nerve twice
The difference: Trades the hope of Doctor Sleep for an angle of its own

Both are Mike Flanagan's work, and they rhyme

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Both lean on dread more than on fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural
The difference: Leans harder into drama than Doctor Sleep does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair


Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Unsettling fantasy in both cases

The shared currency is dream logic
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