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Movies that feel like In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

If you loved In the Mouth of Madness, the closest films we have are The Witch (2016), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Crimson Peak (2015). All three share In the Mouth of Madness's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

🍅 61% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Carpenterdreadunsettlingtwistycontemplativetensedreamlike
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The Witch
2016 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 91%7horror · drama · mystery

New hampshire is the engine of both

The difference: Reviewed even better

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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Sleepy Hollow
1999 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 71%7.3fantasy · thriller · mystery

Both circle small town life and gothic

The difference: None of the stillness that defines In the Mouth of Madness

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

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Crimson Peak
2015 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%6.5horror · mystery · romance

Gothic sits at the heart of each

The difference: Leans romance where In the Mouth of Madness does not

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

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The Devil's Backbone
2001 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 93%7.4fantasy · drama · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

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The Skin I Live In
2011 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 81%7.6drama · horror · mystery

Twisty where it counts, contemplative underneath

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 Devil's Advocate
1997 · dir. Taylor Hackford
🍅 65%7.5horror · drama · mystery

Dreamlike horror in both cases

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

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Last Night in Soho
2021 · dir. Edgar Wright
🍅 75%7horror · mystery · drama

Both trade on tension more than on being mystery

The difference: A 2020s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.

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Black Swan
2010 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 85%8drama · thriller · horror

Insanity runs into paranoia in each of them

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

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Interview with the Vampire
1994 · dir. Neil Jordan
🍅 66%7.5horror · drama · fantasy

Drama built on dread, twice over

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

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The Last Wave
1977 · dir. Peter Weir
🍅 78%6.9drama · mystery · horror

The same preoccupation in both: paranoia

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%6.7drama · horror · thriller

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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The Others
2001 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%7.6horror · mystery · thriller

Fantasy with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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