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Movies that feel like Jaws 2 (1978)

If you loved Jaws 2, the closest films we have are Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984), Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and The Omen (1976). All three share Jaws 2's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jeannot Szwarcdreadunsettlingtense
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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%5.8thriller · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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Cannibal Holocaust
1980 · dir. Ruggero Deodato
🍅 65%5.8horror

The same preoccupation in both: animal attack

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Jaws 2

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

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The Omen
1976 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 76%7.5horror · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on horror

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

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Ring
1998 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 98%7.2horror · thriller

Common ground: island

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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

Both are built on the same subject: shark attack

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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 Shallows
2016 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 78%6.3horror · drama · thriller

One thread runs through both: island

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Jaws 2 does

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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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%7.2horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%7.4horror · thriller

Horror built on unease, twice over

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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

Thriller with a pulse of tension, 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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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%7.5horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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

Unsettling thriller, 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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Halloween
1978 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 97%7.7horror · thriller

The shared currency is tension

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

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