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Movies that feel likeDon't Breathe (2016)

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

If you loved Don't Breathe, the closest films we have are Evil Dead (2013), Heretic (2024) and Halloween (2018). All three share Don't Breathe'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 When Evil Lurks (2023).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Fede Álvarezdreadunsettlingtense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Don't Breathe 2 (2021)

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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

The same director's knack for turning close quarters into pure dread

The difference: Supernatural demon possession, not a flesh-and-blood captor with a gun

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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

A seemingly ordinary house becomes a trap once the door locks behind you

The difference: A theological cat-and-mouse game, no physical break-in or home-invasion setup

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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Halloween
2018 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 79%★ 6.5horror · thrillerPeacock

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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The Visit
2015 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 68%★ 6.3horror · thrillerPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

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Insidious
2011 · dir. James Wan
🍅 66%★ 6.8horror · thriller

Thriller built on dread, twice over

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Orphan
2009 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%★ 7horror · thrillerMax

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

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When Evil Lurks
2023 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · thrillerRent or buy

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.

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Crawl
2019 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 84%★ 6.1horror · thrillerNetflixParamount+

Unsettling thriller in both cases

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

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Drag Me to Hell
2009 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 92%★ 6.6horror · thrillerParamount+Peacock

Both work the same tension

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%★ 5.6horror · thrillerStarz

The horror is handled with the same confidence

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 67%★ 6.5thriller · horror

Both know what they want from thriller

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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