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Movies that feel likeGerald's Game (2017)

When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

If you loved Gerald's Game, the closest films we have are The Innkeepers (2012), It Chapter Two (2019) and Absentia (2011). All three share Gerald's Game'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 The Eyes of My Mother (2016).

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%★ 5.5horror · thrillerPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: ghost

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Gerald's Game

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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It Chapter Two
2019 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 62%★ 6.5horror · thriller · dramaMax

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

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Absentia
2011 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 87%★ 5.8horror · mystery

The same hand behind both of them: Mike Flanagan

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Gerald's Game does

Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.

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

Both are Mike Flanagan's work, and they rhyme

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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Julia's Eyes
2010 · dir. Guillem Morales
🍅 90%★ 6.7horror · thriller

Both land tension and melancholy at once

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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The House That Jack Built
2018 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 59%★ 6.8drama · horror · crimeRent or buy

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Gerald's Game does

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%★ 6.5drama · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on dread more than on horror

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Saw V
2008 · dir. David Hackl
🍅 13%★ 5.8horror · thriller · crime

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.

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As Above, So Below
2014 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 30%★ 6.3horror · thriller

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

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The Eyes of My Mother
2016 · dir. Nicolas Pesce
🍅 78%★ 6.2drama · horror

Contemplative horror in both cases

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

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The Endless
2017 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 91%★ 6.5science fiction · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Common ground: childhood trauma

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
2021 · dir. Maurício Eça
★ 5.9crime · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller built on grit, twice over

Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.

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