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Movies that feel likeIt Chapter Two (2019)

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

If you loved It Chapter Two, the closest films we have are The Innkeepers (2012), Julia's Eyes (2010) and Gerald's Game (2017). All three share It Chapter Two's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Eyes of My Mother (2016).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: It (2017)

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%★ 5.5horror · thrillerPrime Video

A haunted building whose history claims the people drawn to it

The difference: Low-key indie chills — long waits between the frights

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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Julia's Eyes
2010 · dir. Guillem Morales
🍅 90%★ 6.7horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: suicide

The difference: Reviewed even better

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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Gerald's Game
2017 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 91%★ 6.5horror · thriller · dramaNetflix

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

Muschietti's earlier creature — grief and childhood terror entwined

The difference: Smaller and shakier — the CGI ghost wears thin

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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The Eyes of My Mother
2016 · dir. Nicolas Pesce
🍅 78%★ 6.2drama · horror

Contemplative and melancholy in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the tension than It Chapter Two

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

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The Babadook
2014 · dir. Jennifer Kent
🍅 98%★ 6.8drama · horrorRent or buy

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%★ 6.5drama · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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As Above, So Below
2014 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 30%★ 6.3horror · thriller

Drama with a pulse of unease, in both cases

When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

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Wrong Turn
2003 · dir. Rob Schmidt
🍅 40%★ 6.1horror · thrillerPrime Video

Tense horror in both cases

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

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The Endless
2017 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 91%★ 6.5science fiction · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

One thread runs through both: suicide

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than It Chapter Two does

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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The Shallows
2016 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 78%★ 6.3horror · drama · thrillerNetflix

Dread that circles closer while a survivor digs deep to fight back

The difference: One woman, one shark — no ensemble, no mythology

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.

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Talk to Me
2023 · dir. Danny Philippou
★ 7.1horrorMax

Thriller built on melancholy, twice over

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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