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Movies that feel like Knock Knock (2015)

If you loved Knock Knock, the closest films we have are Saw IV (2007), The House That Jack Built (2018) and Saw III (2006). All three share Knock Knock's 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 Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

🍅 37% Rotten Tomatoes4.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Eli Rothdreadunsettlingtensegritty
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Saw IV
2007 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 19%5.9horror · thriller · crime

Two things both keep coming back to: sadism and torture

Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit.

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The House That Jack Built
2018 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 59%6.8drama · horror · crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: architect

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Knock Knock does

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

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Saw III
2006 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 28%6.2horror · thriller · crime

Common ground: sadism

Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

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Saw 3D
2010 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 9%5.5horror · crime

Both are built on the same subject: torture

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.

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Saw VI
2009 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 39%6.1horror · thriller

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: None of the grit Knock Knock is built on

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%6.4horror · thriller · crime

The same mix in both: tension, then grit

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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Saw V
2008 · dir. David Hackl
🍅 13%5.8horror · thriller · crime

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.

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Green Room
2016 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 90%7horror · crime · thriller

Unsettling thriller in both cases

A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.

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The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
2021 · dir. Maurício Eça
5.9crime · drama · thriller

Crime built on tension, twice over

Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.

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Don't Breathe 2
2021 · dir. Rodo Sayagues
6thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: home invasion

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

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

Dread-soaked horror, 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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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of unease, 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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