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Movies that feel like Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966)

If you loved Kill, Baby... Kill!, the closest films we have are The Haunting (1963), Onibaba (1964) and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). All three share Kill, Baby... Kill!'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 HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mario Bavadreadunsettling

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%7.8horror

Both trade on dread more than on being horror

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 85%7.4horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%7.5horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

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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Suspiria
1977 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%7.3horror

Both work the same unease

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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The Exorcist
1973 · dir. William Friedkin
🍅 78%8.1horror

The same horror instincts

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 76%6.8horror

Horror approached the same way

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%7.3horror

Cut from the same horror cloth

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%6.7horror

Both are horror through and through

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1980s show

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.

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%6.5horror

Both built around ghost

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 creation—Annabelle.

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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%7.3horror

Both keep circling back to ghost

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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Final Destination
2000 · dir. James Wong
🍅 51%6.7horror

Both are horror through and through

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

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