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Movies that feel like I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

If you loved I Spit on Your Grave, the closest films we have are Hannibal Rising (2007), Thir13en Ghosts (2001) and The Woman in Black (2012). All three share I Spit on Your Grave's tense and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

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.

πŸ… 32% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steven R. Monroetensegrittydreadunsettlingrelentless
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Hannibal Rising
2007 Β· dir. Peter Webber
πŸ… 16%β˜… 6.1crime Β· thriller Β· horror

Common ground: revenge

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

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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 Β· dir. Steve Beck
πŸ… 19%β˜… 5.6horror Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: revenge

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as I Spit on Your Grave

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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The Woman in Black
2012 Β· dir. James Watkins
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.4drama Β· horror Β· thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then dread

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Ma
2019 Β· dir. Tate Taylor
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.6horror Β· thriller

Both land unease and relentlessness at once

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 Β· dir. Kim Jee-woon
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· horror

Both lean on tension 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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Revenge
2017 Β· dir. Coralie Fargeat
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.4action Β· horror Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: rape

The difference: Sits closer to action than I Spit on Your Grave does

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

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Cape Fear
1991 Β· dir. Martin Scorsese
πŸ… 77%β˜… 7.3drama Β· crime Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: rape

The difference: Leans harder into drama than I Spit on Your Grave does

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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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Scream VI
2023 Β· dir. Tyler Gillett
πŸ… 77%β˜… 6.4horror Β· thriller Β· crime

Gritty crime in both cases

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

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Kill List
2011 Β· dir. Ben Wheatley
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.4horror Β· thriller Β· crime

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

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

Horror built on unease, twice over

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

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

Relentless crime, and it commits to that

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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