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Movies that feel like I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

If you loved I Know What You Did Last Summer, the closest films we have are Shutter (2004), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) and House of Wax (2005). All three share I Know What You Did Last Summer'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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

πŸ… 47% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jim Gillespiedreadunsettlingtensetwistyrelentless

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Shutter
2004 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

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

The same preoccupation in both: slasher

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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House of Wax
2005 Β· dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller Β· mystery

One thread runs through both: murder

The difference: Lighter on relentlessness

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

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Unfriended
2014 Β· dir. Levan Gabriadze
πŸ… 62%β˜… 5.6horror Β· mystery

Common ground: revenge

While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.

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The Skin I Live In
2011 Β· dir. Pedro AlmodΓ³var
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.6drama Β· horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Leans further into drama

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

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The Nameless
1999 Β· dir. Jaume BalaguerΓ³
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.8thriller Β· mystery Β· horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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Carrie
2013 Β· dir. Kimberly Peirce
πŸ… 51%β˜… 5.8drama Β· horror

Common ground: high school

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

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The Grudge
2004 Β· dir. Takashi Shimizu
πŸ… 41%β˜… 5.9horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both land tension and twists at once

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

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Devil
2010 Β· dir. John Erick Dowdle
πŸ… 49%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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

Both lean on relentlessness more than on thriller

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

Unsettling mystery in both cases

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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Scream 2
1997 Β· dir. Wes Craven
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery

Same instincts, same year

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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