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Movies that feel likeEvil Dead (2013)

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.

If you loved Evil Dead, the closest films we have are Annabelle: Creation (2017), Don't Breathe (2016) and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016). All three share Evil Dead's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Fede Álvarezdreadunsettling
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Evil Dead Rise (2023)

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%★ 6.5horrorMax

The same preoccupation in both: demon

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

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Don't Breathe
2016 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 88%★ 7.1horror · thrillerPrime Video

Both are Fede Álvarez's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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The Eye
2002 · dir. Oxide Pang
🍅 63%★ 6.6horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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Terrified
2018 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorRent or buy

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%★ 4.9horrorHulu

The shared currency is unease

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%★ 6.1horrorPeacock

Both know what they want from horror

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%★ 5.3horrorPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: evil spirit

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%★ 5horror

Common ground: demon

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Saw II
2005 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%★ 6.6horror

One thread runs through both: survival horror

The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%★ 5.7horrorParamount+

Both are horror through and through

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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