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Movies that feel like Halloween Kills (2021)

If you loved Halloween Kills, the closest films we have are Friday the 13th (2009), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and Saw VI (2009). All three share Halloween Kills' 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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

🍅 38% Rotten Tomatoes5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Gordon Greendreadunsettlingtense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Halloween (1978) · Halloween (2018)

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

Both are built on the same subject: slasher

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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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%6.4horror · thriller

Common ground in both: serial killer and killer

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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

Common ground: murder

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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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%6.3horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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

Tense horror in both cases

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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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%5.8thriller · horror

One thread runs through both: serial killer

The difference: 37 years apart, and the 1980s show

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

The difference: Missing the tension of Halloween Kills

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

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

Horror built on unease, twice over

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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

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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