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Movies that feel likeFive Nights at Freddy's (2023)

Recently fired and desperate for work, a troubled young man named Mike agrees to take a position as a night security guard at an abandoned theme restaurant: Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. But he soon discovers that nothing at Freddy's is what it seems.

If you loved Five Nights at Freddy's, the closest films we have are The Pool (2018), Evil Dead Rise (2023) and Crawl (2019). All three share Five Nights at Freddy'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).

🍅 33% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Emma Tammidreadunsettlingtense
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Hulu

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%★ 5.2thriller · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Evil Dead Rise
2023 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 85%★ 6.5horror · thrillerMax

Tense horror, and it commits to that

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

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

Unsettling 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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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%★ 5.3thriller · horror

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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

Both are built on the same subject: evil child

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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Countdown
2019 · dir. Justin Dec
🍅 26%★ 5.4horror · thrillerNetflix

Horror built on dread, twice over

A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
★ 5.9horror · thrillerNetflix

Thriller built on unease, twice over

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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Don't Breathe 2
2021 · dir. Rodo Sayagues
★ 6thriller · horrorHulu

A streak of tension through both

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

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

Both know what they want from horror

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

The same thriller instincts

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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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Cut from the same horror cloth

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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