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Movies that feel like Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

If you loved Insidious: The Last Key, the closest films we have are Escape Room (2019), Evil Dead Rise (2023) and The Innkeepers (2012). All three share Insidious: The Last Key's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

🍅 34% Rotten Tomatoes5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adam Robiteldreadunsettlingtense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Insidious (2011) · Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) · Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) · Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)

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Escape Room
2019 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 51%6.4horror · mystery · thriller

Both are Adam Robitel's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Insidious: The Last Key does

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

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Evil Dead Rise
2023 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 85%6.5horror · thriller

Both are working the same pair: supernatural, demon

The difference: Reviewed even better

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: supernatural

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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

Tense horror, and it commits to that

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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When Evil Lurks
2023 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 96%6.9horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: demon

When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.

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Don't Breathe 2
2021 · dir. Rodo Sayagues
6thriller · horror

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

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

Horror built on unease, twice over

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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The Nun
2018 · dir. Corin Hardy
🍅 24%5.4horror

The same preoccupation in both: spirit

The difference: None of the tension Insidious: The Last Key is built on

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

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Annabelle
2014 · dir. John R. Leonetti
🍅 28%5.5horror

Common ground: spirit

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%5.6horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

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The Orphanage
2007 · dir. J. A. Bayona
🍅 87%7.4horror · drama · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: medium and haunted house

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Insidious: The Last Key does

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

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