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Movies that feel like Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)

If you loved Ouija: Origin of Evil, the closest films we have are Veronica (2017), Oculus (2014) and Insidious: The Last Key (2018). All three share Ouija: Origin of Evil's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mike Flanagandreadunsettling

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Ouija (2014)

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%6.2horror

The same two preoccupations: supernatural, and possession

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%6.6horror

Mike Flanagan working the same nerve twice

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

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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 34%5.7horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: spirit

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

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

Both land dread and unease at once

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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Annabelle
2014 · dir. John R. Leonetti
🍅 28%5.5horror

The same preoccupation in both: spirit

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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The Nun
2018 · dir. Corin Hardy
🍅 24%5.4horror

Common ground: supernatural

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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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%5.3horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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Pearl
2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 93%7horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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Evil Dead Burn
2026 · dir. Sébastien Vaniček
🍅 71%7.7horror

One thread runs through both: possession

After her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family — descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into creatures that feed on fear, she comes to discover that the vows she took in life survive even in death.

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The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 26%5.3horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%6.1horror

Both work the same unease

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · dir. Leigh Whannell
🍅 56%6.1horror · thriller

Horror in the same key

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Ouija: Origin of Evil does

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

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