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Movies that feel like Fear Street: 1994 (2021)

If you loved Fear Street: 1994, the closest films we have are The Little Stranger (2018), Weapons (2025) and The Wailing (2016). All three share Fear Street: 1994's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

🍅 84% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Leigh Janiakdreadunsettlingtwistycontemplative
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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: None of the stillness Fear Street: 1994 is built on

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Weapons
2025 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 93%7.4horror · mystery

Both are working the same pair: witch, witchcraft

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

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

The same two preoccupations: murder, and curse

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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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 45%6.2horror · mystery

One thread runs through both: curse

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

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The Lodge
2020 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 75%6horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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Suspiria
2018 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 65%6.7horror · mystery · drama

Twisty and contemplative in the same breath

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%5.2horror · mystery

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 78%6.2horror · mystery

Mystery built on unease, twice over

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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Paranormal Activity 3
2011 · dir. Henry Joost
🍅 68%5.8horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: witch

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

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Black Christmas
2019 · dir. Sophia Takal
🍅 41%3.5horror · mystery

Common ground: slasher

A group of sorority pledges are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young women discover that the killer is part of an underground campus conspiracy.

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

Twisty drama in both cases

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 · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: lgbt

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Fear Street: 1994 does

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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