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Movies that feel like Noroi: The Curse (2005)

If you loved Noroi: The Curse, the closest films we have are Sinister (2012), The Others (2001) and You're Next (2013). All three share Noroi: The Curse's 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 MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel, Philo and AMC Plus Apple TV channel and others, checked against today's data.

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Koji Shiraishidreadunsettlingtwistytense

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Sinister
2012 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 64%6.8horror · thriller · mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

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The Others
2001 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%7.6horror · mystery · thriller

Twisty and tense in the same breath

Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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You're Next
2013 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 79%6.6horror · thriller · mystery

Both trade on dread more than on being horror

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

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Us
2019 · dir. Jordan Peele
🍅 93%6.8horror · mystery · thriller

Unsettling mystery in both cases

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%6.7horror · mystery · thriller

Thriller built on twists, twice over

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%6.4horror · thriller · mystery

Tense horror, and it commits to that

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Escape Room
2019 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 51%6.4horror · mystery · thriller

Mystery with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
2021 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 56%6.2horror · mystery · thriller

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

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Coma
1978 · dir. Michael Crichton
🍅 81%6.9thriller · mystery · horror

Horror built on twists, twice over

The difference: A 1970s film, from a different era of filmmaking

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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Psycho
1960 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 97%8.5horror · thriller · mystery

Mystery built on tension, twice over

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

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Hereditary
2018 · dir. Ari Aster
🍅 90%7.3horror · mystery · thriller

The same horror instincts

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

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The Boy
2016 · dir. William Brent Bell
🍅 31%6horror · mystery · thriller

Cut from the same mystery cloth

A young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.

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