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Movies that feel likeHalloween (2018)

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

If you loved Halloween, the closest films we have are Creep (2014), The Visit (2015) and Evil Dead Rise (2023). All three share Halloween'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 When Evil Lurks (2023).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Gordon Greendreadunsettlingtense
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Halloween (1978) · Halloween Kills (2021)

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Common ground in both: murder and serial killer

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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The Visit
2015 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 68%★ 6.3horror · thrillerPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: murder

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

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Evil Dead Rise
2023 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 85%★ 6.5horror · thrillerMax

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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Crawl
2019 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 84%★ 6.1horror · thrillerNetflixParamount+

Tense horror, and it commits to that

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 67%★ 6.5thriller · horror

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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Titane
2021 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 90%★ 6.4drama · thriller · horrorRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: trauma

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Halloween does

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

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

Two things both keep coming back to: halloween and slasher

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 34%★ 5.7horror · thrillerMax

The same preoccupation in both: halloween

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

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Saw VI
2009 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 39%★ 6.1horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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Don't Breathe 2
2021 · dir. Rodo Sayagues
★ 6thriller · horrorHulu

Thriller built on tension, twice over

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%★ 5.6horror · thrillerStarz

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

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When Evil Lurks
2023 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.

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