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Movies that feel like Ghostland (2018)

If you loved Ghostland, the closest films we have are Oculus (2014), Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) and Tale of Tales (2015). All three share Ghostland's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

🍅 52% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Pascal Laugierdreadunsettlingdreamlike
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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%6.6horror

The same preoccupation in both: hallucination

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%6.9fantasy · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Horror built on dream logic, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Ghostland does

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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1922
2017 · dir. Zak Hilditch
🍅 92%6.2horror · crime · drama

Common ground: hallucination

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

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Truth or Dare
2018 · dir. Jeff Wadlow
🍅 16%5.2thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.

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They Look Like People
2016 · dir. Perry Blackshear
🍅 92%5.8drama · horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: insanity

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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Scream
2022 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 76%6.3horror · mystery

Unsettling horror in both cases

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%8.2fantasy · horror

A streak of dream logic through both

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 42%5.8horror

Both work the same dread

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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Rings
2017 · dir. F. Javier Gutiérrez
🍅 7%4.5horror

The shared currency is unease

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

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Nosferatu
2024 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 85%7.1horror · fantasy

Both sit in the same dreamlike register

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Both are horror through and through

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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