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Movies that feel like Longlegs (2024)

If you loved Longlegs, the closest films we have are The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017), The Snowman (2017) and The Lodge (2020). All three share Longlegs' 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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Osgood Perkinsgrittydreadunsettlingtwisty
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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 77%5.9horror · mystery

Osgood Perkins directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the grit of Longlegs

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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The Snowman
2017 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 7%5.2crime · thriller · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: serial killer

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

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The Lodge
2020 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 75%6horror · mystery

Common ground: murder

The difference: None of the grit Longlegs is built on

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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Paranormal Activity 3
2011 · dir. Henry Joost
🍅 68%5.8horror · mystery

One thread runs through both: haunting

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

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Black Christmas
1974 · dir. Bob Clark
🍅 73%7.1horror · mystery · crime

Both are built on the same subject: murder

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

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Paranormal Activity 2
2010 · dir. Tod Williams
🍅 58%5.7horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: haunting

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

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Pearl
2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 93%7horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: barn

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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Saw X
2023 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 81%6.6horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: serial killer

Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II', a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps.

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%5.2horror · mystery

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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Malignant
2021 · dir. James Wan
🍅 77%6.2horror · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on horror

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%6.7thriller · horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: flashback

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Longlegs does

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%6.5horror · mystery

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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