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Movies that feel like Incantation (2022)

If you loved Incantation, the closest films we have are The Borderlands (2014), The Medium (2021) and [REC]³ Genesis (2012). All three share Incantation's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kevin Kodreadunsettling
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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

Both are working the same pair: found footage, pov (point of view)

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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

The same two preoccupations: occult, and supernatural horror

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Incantation does

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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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

The same preoccupation in both: pseudo-documentary

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: found footage

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Incantation does

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: occult

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.7horror

Both land dread and unease at once

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%6.2horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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Jeepers Creepers
2001 · dir. Victor Salva
🍅 47%6.2horror

Common ground: horrified

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 2000s show

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

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Paranormal Activity
2007 · dir. Oren Peli
🍅 82%6.3horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural horror

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

Unsettling horror in both cases

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

One thread runs through both: curse

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%6.9mystery · horror · thriller

Common ground: curse

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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