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Movies that feel likeOld (2021)

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

If you loved Old, the closest films we have are Knock at the Cabin (2023), The Visit (2015) and The Empty Man (2020). All three share Old's tense and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Resolution (2013).

🍅 50% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. M. Night Shyamalantensetwistydreadunsettling
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Knock at the Cabin
2023 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 67%★ 6.1horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

M. Night Shyamalan working the same nerve twice

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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The Visit
2015 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 68%★ 6.3horror · thrillerPrime Video

The same hand behind both of them: M. Night Shyamalan

The difference: Takes it somewhere less twisty than Old does

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%★ 6.2horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Tense and twisty in the same breath

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%★ 6.9mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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 · mysteryRent or buy

Mystery built on twists, twice over

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

Common ground: beach

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 Whole Truth
2021 · dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
★ 5.2horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on dread more than on horror

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

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Escape Room
2019 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 51%★ 6.4horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Thriller with a pulse of unease, 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 · thrillerMax

Tense mystery in both cases

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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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.6mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Twisty horror in both cases

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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Devil
2010 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 49%★ 6.3horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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