
Movies that feel likeGerald's Game (2017)
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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If Gerald's Game hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: ghost
The difference: Easier on the stillness than Gerald's Game

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The same hand behind both of them: Mike Flanagan
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Gerald's Game does

Both are Mike Flanagan's work, and they rhyme

Both land tension and melancholy at once

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Gerald's Game does

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Contemplative horror in both cases

Common ground: childhood trauma

Thriller built on grit, twice over
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