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Movies that feel like Lake Mungo (2009)

If you loved Lake Mungo, the closest films we have are The Innkeepers (2012), Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) and Insidious (2011). All three share Lake Mungo's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Philo and AMC+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Joel Andersondreadunsettlingtense

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If Lake Mungo hit the spot, these will too

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Supernatural runs into ghost in each of them

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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Insidious: Chapter 2
2013 · dir. James Wan
🍅 38%6.6horror · thriller

Supernatural is the engine of both

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

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Insidious
2011 · dir. James Wan
🍅 66%6.8horror · thriller

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

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The Visit
2015 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 68%6.3horror · thriller

Both keep circling back to found footage

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%6.3horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: found footage

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, 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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Drag Me to Hell
2009 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 92%6.6horror · thriller

Both trade on tension more than on being horror

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

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Orphan
2009 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%7horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

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The Conjuring
2013 · dir. James Wan
🍅 86%7.5horror · thriller

Both built around ghost

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

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Split
2017 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 79%7.3horror · thriller

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

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Halloween
2018 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 79%6.5horror · thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

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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Evil Dead Rise
2023 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 85%6.5horror · thriller

Horror built on dread, twice over

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026 · dir. Jacob Chase
6.3horror · thriller

Both trade on unease more than on being thriller

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

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