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Movies that feel like Hellraiser (1987)

If you loved Hellraiser, the closest films we have are The Neon Demon (2016), Possession (1981) and Blade II (2002). All three share Hellraiser'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 Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

πŸ… 71% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Clive Barkerdreadunsettlingtensedreamlikerelentlessobsessive
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The Neon Demon
2016 Β· dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
πŸ… 59%β˜… 6.1horror Β· thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: seduction and surrealism

The difference: Missing the relentlessness of Hellraiser

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

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Possession
1981 Β· dir. Andrzej Ε»uΕ‚awski
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: gore

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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Blade II
2002 Β· dir. Guillermo del Toro
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.7fantasy Β· horror Β· action

Common ground in both: supernatural and revenge

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Hellraiser does

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

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Blue Velvet
1986 Β· dir. David Lynch
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.7mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

Common ground: sexual obsession

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Hellraiser does

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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Altered States
1980 Β· dir. Ken Russell
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: ritual

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 Β· dir. Samuel Bayer
πŸ… 14%β˜… 5.2horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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Friday the 13th
1980 Β· dir. Sean S. Cunningham
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.4horror

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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I Saw the Devil
2010 Β· dir. Kim Jee-woon
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Martyrs
2008 Β· dir. Pascal Laugier
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7horror Β· drama Β· thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then relentlessness

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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Fan
2016 Β· dir. Maneesh Sharma
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.8action Β· adventure Β· thriller

Both lean on obsession more than on thriller

A man who bears a striking resemblance to a renowned movie star becomes an obsessive fan, but when his fierce love is spurned by the star, he decides to destroy the star's life and reputation.

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Ring
1998 Β· dir. Hideo Nakata
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.2horror Β· thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 Β· dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.8thriller Β· horror

Common ground: gore

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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