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Movies that feel like Julia's Eyes (2010)

If you loved Julia's Eyes, the closest films we have are The Innkeepers (2012), Lake Mungo (2009) and Hokum (2026). All three share Julia's Eyes' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 90% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Guillem Moralesdreadunsettlingtense

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The Innkeepers
2012 Β· dir. Ti West
πŸ… 81%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: suicide

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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Lake Mungo
2009 Β· dir. Joel Anderson
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.2horror Β· thriller

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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Hokum
2026 Β· dir. Damian McCarthy
β˜… 7.3horror Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mysterious

When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.

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Creep
2014 Β· dir. Patrick Brice
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.3horror Β· thriller

Common ground: murder

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: β€œ$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naivetΓ©, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Thesis
1996 Β· dir. Alejandro AmenΓ‘bar
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.4horror Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: murder

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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What We Become
2015 Β· dir. Bo Mikkelsen
β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller

Tense horror in both cases

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Halloween
2018 Β· dir. David Gordon Green
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.5horror Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: knife

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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The Pool
2018 Β· dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
πŸ… 96%β˜… 5.3thriller Β· horror

Thriller built on dread, twice over

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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The Sadness
2021 Β· dir. Rob Jabbaz
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.5horror Β· thriller

Both lean on unease more than on horror

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Death Whisperer
2023 Β· dir. Taweewat Wantha
β˜… 5.8horror Β· thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 Β· dir. Peter Strickland
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.2horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Julia's Eyes does

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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Nightwatch
1994 Β· dir. Ole Bornedal
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.2horror Β· thriller

Thriller built on unease, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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