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Movies that feel likeEscape Room (2019)

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

If you loved Escape Room, the closest films we have are The Empty Man (2020), Knock at the Cabin (2023) and Goodnight Mommy (2015). All three share Escape Room'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 Resolution (2013).

🍅 51% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adam Robiteldreadunsettlingtwistytense
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%★ 6.2horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Both land dread and unease at once

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Knock at the Cabin
2023 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 67%★ 6.1horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Twisty and tense in the same breath

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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

Both lean on dread more than on horror

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%★ 6.4horror · thriller · mysteryRent or buy

Mystery built on unease, twice over

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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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%★ 6.9mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of twists, in both cases

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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

Tense horror, and it commits to that

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

Both are Adam Robitel's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Trades the twists of Escape Room for an angle of its own

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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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%★ 6.7thriller · horror · mystery

Dread-soaked mystery in both cases

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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Old
2021 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 50%★ 5.8thriller · mystery · horrorPeacock

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

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

Twisty horror in both cases

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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The Whole Truth
2021 · dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
★ 5.2horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Tense mystery in both cases

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

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Devil
2010 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 49%★ 6.3horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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