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Movies that feel likeOculus (2014)

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

If you loved Oculus, the closest films we have are Doctor Sleep (2019), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) and Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017). All three share Oculus' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is November (2017).

🍅 75% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mike Flanagandreadunsettlingdreamlike
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Doctor Sleep
2019 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 79%★ 7.3horror · fantasyParamount+

Mike Flanagan working the same nerve twice

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Oculus does

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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

The same hand behind both of them: Mike Flanagan

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than Oculus does

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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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%★ 6.9fantasy · horrorRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: ghost

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%★ 8.2fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Horror built on dream logic, twice over

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

Common ground in both: supernatural and haunted house

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.

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%★ 6.4horrorPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hallucination

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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Nosferatu
2024 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror · fantasyHulu

Both lean on dread more than on horror

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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mother!
2017 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 68%★ 6.6horror · dramaRent or buy

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

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1922
2017 · dir. Zak Hilditch
🍅 92%★ 6.2horror · crime · dramaNetflix

Common ground: haunted house

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Both run dreamlike where it counts

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 34%★ 5.9action · fantasy · horrorMax

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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