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Movies that feel likeMama (2013)

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

If you loved Mama, the closest films we have are Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Terrified (2018) and Veronica (2017). All three share Mama'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 Triangle (2009).

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Andy Muschiettidreadunsettling
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If Mama hit the spot, these will too

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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Terrified
2018 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: haunted house

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

One thread runs through both: supernatural

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%★ 5.9horrorMax

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

Horror built on dread, twice over

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%★ 6.9horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%★ 5.3horrorPeacock

Common ground: haunted house

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%★ 4.9horrorHulu

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%★ 6.2horror

Both sit in the same unsettling register

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%★ 5.7horrorParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: tragedy

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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The Amityville Horror
2005 · dir. Andrew Douglas
🍅 23%★ 5.9horrorPrime Video

Horror approached the same way

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 41%★ 5.8horrorMax

One thread runs through both: woods

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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