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Movies that feel like Onibaba (1964)

If you loved Onibaba, the closest films we have are The Haunting (1963), The Exorcist (1973) and The Wicker Man (1973). All three share Onibaba'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 Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads and BFI Player Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kaneto Shindōdreadunsettling

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

Black and white is the engine of both

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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The Exorcist
1973 · dir. William Friedkin
🍅 78%8.1horror

Demon sits at the heart of each

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%7.5horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 85%7.4horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

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Suspiria
1977 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%7.3horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%7.3horror

Both trade on dread more than on being horror

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 76%6.8horror

Both run unsettling where it counts

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%6.7horror

Both built around murder

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%7.3horror

The same preoccupation in both: demon

The difference: 52 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%6.9horror

Both keep circling back to murder

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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Final Destination
2000 · dir. James Wong
🍅 51%6.7horror

The same horror instincts

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%6.5horror

Horror approached the same way

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 creation—Annabelle.

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