feelsalike.com

Movies that feel like Jeepers Creepers (2001)

If you loved Jeepers Creepers, the closest films we have are Incantation (2022), Child's Play (1988) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003). All three share Jeepers Creepers' 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.

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

πŸ… 47% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Victor Salvadreadunsettling
See it on the map

When is Jeepers Creepers streaming? β†’

If Jeepers Creepers hit the spot, these will too

Incantation poster
Incantation
2022 Β· dir. Kevin Ko
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: horrified

The difference: Reviewed even better

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

Feels alike?
Child's Play poster
Child's Play
1988 Β· dir. Tom Holland
πŸ… 65%β˜… 6.7horror

Common ground: slasher

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

Feels alike?
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre poster
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 Β· dir. Marcus Nispel
πŸ… 37%β˜… 6.2horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

Feels alike?
Terrifier poster
Terrifier
2018 Β· dir. Damien Leone
πŸ… 63%β˜… 5.5horror

Both are built on the same subject: slasher

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

Feels alike?
X poster
X
2022 Β· dir. Ti West
πŸ… 94%β˜… 6.5horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 2020s show

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

Feels alike?
Triangle poster
Triangle
2009 Β· dir. Christopher Smith
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9horror

Horror built on unease, twice over

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

Feels alike?
Annabelle: Creation poster
Annabelle: Creation
2017 Β· dir. David F. Sandberg
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.5horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creationβ€”Annabelle.

Feels alike?
The Borderlands poster
The Borderlands
2014 Β· dir. Elliot Goldner
πŸ… 83%β˜… 5.8horror

Both sit in the same unsettling register

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

Feels alike?
Veronica poster
Veronica
2017 Β· dir. Paco Plaza
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.2horror

Both play horror straight

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a sΓ©ance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

Feels alike?
The Hills Have Eyes poster
The Hills Have Eyes
2006 Β· dir. Alexandre Aja
πŸ… 51%β˜… 6.4horror Β· thriller

Both are horror through and through

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Jeepers Creepers does

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

Feels alike?
Mama poster
Mama
2013 Β· dir. Andy Muschietti
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.2horror

The same horror instincts

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.

Feels alike?
Saw II poster
Saw II
2005 Β· dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
πŸ… 39%β˜… 6.6horror

Cut from the same horror cloth

The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

Feels alike?

In the mood for more dread?

all dread movies β†’

The best-reviewed films that share Jeepers Creepers’ defining feeling.