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Movies that feel like Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

If you loved Paranormal Activity 3, the closest films we have are Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018), Lights Out (2016) and The Medium (2021). All three share Paranormal Activity 3'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 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Henry Joostdreadunsettlingtwisty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Paranormal Activity (2007) · Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

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

Two things both keep coming back to: found footage and paranormal activity

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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Lights Out
2016 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 74%6.3horror · mystery

Common ground in both: brothers and sisters and supernatural

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%6.5horror · mystery

One thread runs through both: supernatural

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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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%5.7horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: cult

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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

Common ground: cult

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

Both are built on the same subject: family secrets

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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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: paranormal phenomena

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Paranormal Activity 3 does

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

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%5.2horror · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on horror

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 45%6.2horror · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: witch

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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The Final Destination
2009 · dir. David R. Ellis
🍅 28%5.1horror · mystery

Unsettling horror in both cases

A horrifying premonition saves a young man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident but terrible fates await them nonetheless.

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