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Movies that feel like It Comes at Night (2017)

If you loved It Comes at Night, the closest films we have are They Look Like People (2016), Smile (2022) and The Thing (2011). All three share It Comes at Night'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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

πŸ… 88% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Trey Edward Shultscontemplativedreadunsettlingtwistybleakparanoid
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They Look Like People
2016 Β· dir. Perry Blackshear
πŸ… 92%β˜… 5.8drama Β· horror Β· mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: paranoia and fear

The difference: Not nearly as bleak as It Comes at Night

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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Smile
2022 Β· dir. Parker Finn
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia

The difference: Missing the stillness of It Comes at Night

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

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The Thing
2011 Β· dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
πŸ… 34%β˜… 6.2horror Β· science fiction Β· mystery

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.

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Barbarian
2022 Β· dir. Zach Cregger
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

The same mix in both: twists, then paranoia

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than It Comes at Night does

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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The Last Wave
1977 Β· dir. Peter Weir
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9drama Β· mystery Β· horror

Common ground: nightmare

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

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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Lights Out
2016 Β· dir. David F. Sandberg
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery

One thread runs through both: darkness

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

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Midsommar
2019 Β· dir. Ari Aster
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.1horror Β· drama Β· mystery

Contemplative drama in both cases

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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Fear Street: 1994
2021 Β· dir. Leigh Janiak
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery Β· drama

Both lean on stillness more than on horror

After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

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The Ritual
2017 Β· dir. David Bruckner
πŸ… 74%β˜… 6.4horror Β· mystery

Both are built on the same subject: forest

A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.

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Suspiria
2018 Β· dir. Luca Guadagnino
πŸ… 65%β˜… 6.7horror Β· mystery Β· drama

Mystery built on dread, twice over

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

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The Invitation
2016 Β· dir. Karyn Kusama
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.

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Hostel
2006 Β· dir. Eli Roth
πŸ… 60%β˜… 5.9horror

Drama with a pulse of paranoia, in both cases

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

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