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Movies that feel like Pearl (2022)

If you loved Pearl, the closest films we have are The Strangers (2008), The Innkeepers (2012) and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016). All three share Pearl'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.

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.

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ti Westdreadunsettling
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The Strangers
2008 · dir. Bryan Bertino
🍅 50%6.1horror

Two things both keep coming back to: murder and serial killer

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Ti West working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Pearl does

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%6.2horror

Both land dread and unease at once

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.

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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%6horror

Common ground: slasher

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%5.5horror

One thread runs through both: slasher

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: murder

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: serial killer

The difference: 34 years apart, and the 1980s show

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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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%6.2horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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

Both lean on unease more than on horror

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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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Both are built on the same subject: alligator

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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

The shared currency is unease

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

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