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Movies that feel likeIt Follows (2015)

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

If you loved It Follows, the closest films we have are The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), Paranormal Activity (2009) and The Medium (2021). All three share It Follows' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018).

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Robert Mitchelldreadunsettlingtwisty
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+

Dread that tightens as the rules of the horror slowly reveal themselves

The difference: One confined night in a morgue — claustrophobia over open-air unease

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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Paranormal Activity
2009 · dir. Oren Peli
🍅 82%★ 6.3horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

The same preoccupation in both: entity

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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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%★ 6.5horror · mysteryRent or buy

Possession creeping through ordinary lives with mounting inevitability

The difference: A slow-burn mockumentary that erupts into far grislier extremes

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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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · dir. Daniel Myrick
🍅 86%★ 6.5horror · mysteryMax

The terror of being hunted by something you never quite see

The difference: Shaky handheld realism — improvised panic over composed style

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

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The Wailing
2016 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 99%★ 7.4horror · mystery

Evil that spreads like an infection while every explanation crumbles

The difference: A sprawling village mystery — grief and ambiguity over sleek style

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%★ 6.5horror · mysteryPrime Video

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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Final Destination 2
2003 · dir. David R. Ellis
🍅 52%★ 6.2horror · mysteryMax

Death as an unstoppable force that simply waits its turn

The difference: Gory Rube Goldberg set pieces — carnival ride, not creeping dread

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

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Us
2019 · dir. Jordan Peele
🍅 93%★ 6.8horror · mysteryMax

Twisty horror, and it commits to that

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 78%★ 6.2horror · mysteryPeacock

Mystery built on dread, twice over

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 45%★ 6.2horror · mysteryMax

A returned loved one who brings something ancient home with her

The difference: Bigger mythology and monster spectacle — less intimate menace

The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

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The Ring
2002 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 72%★ 7.1horror · mysteryNetflixParamount+

A curse with rules, a countdown and no mercy for the curious

The difference: An investigation drives it — solving, not fleeing, the horror

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%★ 5.5mystery · horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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