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Movies that feel like House on Haunted Hill (1959)

If you loved House on Haunted Hill, the closest films we have are The Innocents (1961), Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) and Carnival of Souls (1962). All three share House on Haunted Hill's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Shudder and Bloodstream and others, checked against today's data.

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. William Castledreadunsettlingtwisty
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The Innocents
1961 · dir. Jack Clayton
🍅 95%7.7horror · mystery · drama

Common ground in both: haunted house and black and white

The difference: Leans harder into drama than House on Haunted Hill does

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
7.2mystery · horror · drama

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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Carnival of Souls
1962 · dir. Herk Harvey
🍅 87%7horror · mystery · fantasy

Twisty horror, and it commits to that

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

Mystery with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

Common ground: haunted house

The difference: None of the twists House on Haunted Hill is built on

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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The Uninvited
1944 · dir. Lewis Allen
🍅 95%7.2mystery · horror · fantasy

Unsettling horror in both cases

A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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Next of Kin
1982 · dir. Tony Williams
🍅 100%6.2horror · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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The Legend of Hell House
1973 · dir. John Hough
🍅 72%6.6horror · mystery

Horror built on dread, twice over

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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Coma
1978 · dir. Michael Crichton
🍅 81%6.9thriller · mystery · horror

Mystery with a pulse of unease, in both cases

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%6.5horror · mystery · thriller

Both run twisty where it counts

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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The Sentinel
1977 · dir. Michael Winner
🍅 45%6.3horror · mystery · fantasy

Horror in the same key

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%6.5horror · mystery

Mystery approached the same way

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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