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Movies that feel like Friday the 13th (2009)

If you loved Friday the 13th, the closest films we have are The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Halloween Kills (2021) and The Hills Have Eyes (2006). All three share Friday the 13th's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Marcus Nispeldreadunsettlingtense

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 37%6.2horror

Marcus Nispel directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the tension Friday the 13th is built on

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: slasher

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%6.4horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: slasher

The difference: Reviewed even better

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%6.3horror · thriller

Common ground: axe murder

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Halloween
2018 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 79%6.5horror · thriller

Both land dread and unease at once

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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Ring
1998 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 98%7.2horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: cabin in the woods

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on horror

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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House of Wax
2005 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 27%5.5horror · thriller · mystery

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Friday the 13th does

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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