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Movies that feel like Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)

If you loved Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, the closest films we have are The Medium (2021), The Borderlands (2014) and The Empty Man (2020). All three share Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum'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 Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

πŸ… 92% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jung Bum-shikdreadunsettlingtwisty
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If Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum hit the spot, these will too

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The Medium
2021 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery

Both are built on the same subject: found footage

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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The Borderlands
2014 Β· dir. Elliot Goldner
πŸ… 83%β˜… 5.8horror

Two things both keep coming back to: camera and paranormal

The difference: Missing the twists of Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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The Empty Man
2020 Β· dir. David Prior
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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The Little Stranger
2018 Β· dir. Lenny Abrahamson
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.5mystery Β· horror

Both lean on twists more than on horror

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Hellhole
2022 Β· dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.8horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 Β· dir. Roberto De Feo
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.7horror Β· mystery

Horror built on unease, twice over

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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The Lodge
2020 Β· dir. Veronika Franz
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6horror Β· mystery

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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Exhuma
2024 Β· dir. Jang Jae-hyun
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.9mystery Β· horror Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: ghost

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum does

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remainsβ€”and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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Lights Out
2016 Β· dir. David F. Sandberg
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: ghost

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 Β· dir. Koji Shiraishi
β˜… 6.8horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Common ground: found footage

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Black Christmas
2019 Β· dir. Sophia Takal
πŸ… 41%β˜… 3.5horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A group of sorority pledges are stalked by a stranger during their Christmas break. That is until the young women discover that the killer is part of an underground campus conspiracy.

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The Wailing
2016 Β· dir. Na Hong-jin
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.4horror Β· mystery

Both lean on unease more than on mystery

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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