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Movies that feel like Exhuma (2024)

If you loved Exhuma, the closest films we have are The Medium (2021), Noroi: The Curse (2005) and The Wailing (2016). All three share Exhuma's twisty and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jang Jae-hyuntwistydreadunsettlingtense
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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%6.5horror · mystery

Common ground in both: shaman and occult

The difference: Missing the tension of Exhuma

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

One thread runs through both: curse

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

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The Wailing
2016 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 99%7.4horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: exorcism

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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

Twisty and dread-soaked in the same breath

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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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%6.4horror · thriller · mystery

Both land unease and tension at once

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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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%6.5horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: ghost

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: exorcism

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.6mystery · horror · thriller

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

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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A Dark Song
2016 · dir. Liam Gavin
🍅 91%6.2horror · fantasy · mystery

Common ground: ritual

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Exhuma does

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

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Finders Keepers
2014 · dir. Alexander Yellen
🍅 98%4.3mystery · thriller · horror

Tense mystery in both cases

A haunted doll teaches one little girl why children shouldn't play with undead things.

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