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Movies that feel like Halloween (2007)

If you loved Halloween, the closest films we have are Poltergeist (2015), The Strangers (2008) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003). All three share Halloween's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

🍅 28% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rob Zombiedreadunsettling

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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%4.9horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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The Strangers
2008 · dir. Bryan Bertino
🍅 50%6.1horror

One thread runs through both: mask

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

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

Common ground: psychopath

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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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%5.5horror

Both are working the same pair: halloween, maniac

The difference: Reviewed even better

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%5.9horror

Both are built on the same subject: babysitter

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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The Amityville Horror
2005 · dir. Andrew Douglas
🍅 23%5.9horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%6horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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Friday the 13th
2009 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 26%5.5horror · thriller

Horror built on unease, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Halloween does

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.

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🍅 48%4.4horror

The same preoccupation in both: sadism

During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon, who has a very disturbed vision.

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%6.5horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%6.1horror

The shared currency is unease

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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Saw II
2005 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%6.6horror

Same instincts, 2 years apart

The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

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