
Movies that feel likeHereditary (2018)
If you loved Hereditary, the closest films we have are Midsommar (2019), The Others (2001) and The Ritual (2017). All three share Hereditary'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 A Dark Song (2016).
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If Hereditary hit the spot, these will too

Aster again — grief walked step by step into ritual horror
The difference: Broad daylight dread — slower, longer, strangely serene

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Guilt-carrying mourners stalked by something with a design
The difference: Forest creature-feature bones — simpler scares

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Hereditary does

Both are built on the same subject: murder

A grieving skeptic locked in with the supernatural
The difference: A contained King spookshow — jolts over slow rot

A grieving household where something is deeply wrong
The difference: A gimmick doll thriller — twist first, feeling later

Occult conspiracy uncovered one dreadful layer at a time
The difference: Victorian murder procedural — pulpier, less personal

A mourning parent committing utterly to an occult ritual
The difference: Two people in one house — austere and punishingly slow

Twisty where it counts, melancholy underneath

Both lean on dread more than on horror
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

One thread runs through both: ritual
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