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Movies that feel like Hannibal Rising (2007)

If you loved Hannibal Rising, the closest films we have are Red Dragon (2002), I Spit on Your Grave (2010) and Ma (2019). All three share Hannibal Rising's tense and dread 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 Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

🍅 16% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Webbergrittytensedreadunsettlingrelentless
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Red Dragon
2002 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 68%7.2crime · thriller · horror

Common ground in both: psychopath and psychological thriller

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

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I Spit on Your Grave
2010 · dir. Steven R. Monroe
🍅 32%6.2thriller · crime · horror

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

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Ma
2019 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 55%5.6horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: psychopath

The difference: None of the grit Hannibal Rising is built on

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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I Saw the Devil
2010 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 83%7.8thriller · horror

One thread runs through both: revenge

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 19%5.6horror · thriller

Both land tension and dread at once

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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Scream VI
2023 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 77%6.4horror · thriller · crime

Common ground: mask

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

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Martyrs
2008 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 66%7horror · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: unease, then relentlessness

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Hannibal Rising does

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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Saw IV
2007 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 19%5.9horror · thriller · crime

Gritty crime in both cases

Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit.

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The Woman in Black
2012 · dir. James Watkins
🍅 66%6.4drama · horror · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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Cape Fear
1991 · dir. Martin Scorsese
🍅 77%7.3drama · crime · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychological thriller

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%6.4horror · thriller · crime

Horror built on grit, twice over

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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Shutter
2004 · dir. Parkpoom Wongpoom
7horror · mystery · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

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