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Movies that feel likeParanormal Activity (2009)

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

If you loved Paranormal Activity, the closest films we have are The Medium (2021), Final Destination 5 (2011) and It Follows (2015). All three share Paranormal Activity's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Oren Pelidreadunsettlingtwisty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) · Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%★ 6.5horror · mysteryRent or buy

Common ground in both: found footage and supernatural horror

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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Final Destination 5
2011 · dir. Steven Quale
🍅 64%★ 5.9horror · mysteryMax

Common ground: supernatural horror

Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive, and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.

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It Follows
2015 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 95%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

Both are built on the same subject: entity

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%★ 6.5horror · mysteryPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: found footage

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 78%★ 6.2horror · mysteryPeacock

One thread runs through both: halloween

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · dir. Daniel Myrick
🍅 86%★ 6.5horror · mysteryMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

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Jeepers Creepers
2001 · dir. Victor Salva
🍅 47%★ 6.2horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: horrified

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

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Scream 2
1997 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 83%★ 6.3horror · mysteryHuluParamount+

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+

Horror built on twists, twice over

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Common ground: psychic

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Paranormal Activity does

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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The Wailing
2016 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 99%★ 7.4horror · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%★ 5.5mystery · horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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