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Movies that feel like Oculus (2014)

If you loved Oculus, the closest films we have are A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Doctor Sleep (2019) and Mama (2013). All three share Oculus'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 Hulu, HBO Max Amazon Channel and Cinemax Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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

πŸ… 75% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Mike Flanagandreadunsettlingdreamlike

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If Oculus hit the spot, these will too

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 Β· dir. Wes Craven
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.4horror

Supernatural is the engine of both

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

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Doctor Sleep
2019 Β· dir. Mike Flanagan
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.3horror Β· fantasy

Mike Flanagan working the same nerve twice

The difference: Plays it as fantasy more 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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Mama
2013 Β· dir. Andy Muschietti
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.2horror

Haunted house runs into ghost in each of them

The difference: Missing the dream logic of Oculus

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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Nosferatu
2024 Β· dir. Robert Eggers
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1horror Β· fantasy

Both land dread and unease at once

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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Annabelle: Creation
2017 Β· dir. David F. Sandberg
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.5horror

Both built around ghost

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creationβ€”Annabelle.

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The Conjuring 2
2016 Β· dir. James Wan
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7.3horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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Annabelle
2014 Β· dir. John R. Leonetti
πŸ… 28%β˜… 5.5horror

Unsettling horror in both cases

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 Β· dir. Gary Dauberman
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.9horror

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

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 β€œsafely” 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 targetβ€”the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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Saw II
2005 Β· dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
πŸ… 39%β˜… 6.6horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

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Triangle
2009 Β· dir. Christopher Smith
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9horror

Unease is the shared currency

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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The Nun
2018 Β· dir. Corin Hardy
πŸ… 24%β˜… 5.4horror

Horror approached the same way

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

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X
2022 Β· dir. Ti West
πŸ… 94%β˜… 6.5horror

Cut from the same horror cloth

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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