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Movies that feel likeLet's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

If you loved Let's Scare Jessica to Death, the closest films we have are The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Last Wave (1977) and Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968). All three share Let's Scare Jessica to Death's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Long Weekend (1979).

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The Legend of Hell House
1973 · dir. John Hough
🍅 72%★ 6.6horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: isolation

The difference: Goes its own way on the stillness

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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The Last Wave
1977 · dir. Peter Weir
🍅 78%★ 6.9drama · mystery · horrorMax

The same preoccupation in both: paranoia

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2mystery · horror · drama

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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They Look Like People
2016 · dir. Perry Blackshear
🍅 92%★ 5.8drama · horror · mystery

Common ground: paranoia

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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Cat People
1942 · dir. Jacques Tourneur
🍅 92%★ 7.2mystery · horror · romance

Both are built on the same subject: isolation

The difference: Leans further into romance

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

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The Conversation
1974 · dir. Francis Ford Coppola
🍅 94%★ 7.7crime · drama · mystery

Both land twists and stillness at once

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

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Hour of the Wolf
1968 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 92%★ 7.5drama · horror

Horror built on loneliness, twice over

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 · dir. Luigi Bazzoni
★ 6.6thriller · mystery · drama

Drama with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%★ 6.5horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on twists more than on horror

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 61%★ 7.1horror · mystery

Paranoid mystery in both cases

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 77%★ 5.9horror · mysteryPrime Video

Drama built on loneliness, twice over

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

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