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Movies that feel like Pet Sematary (2019)

If you loved Pet Sematary, the closest films we have are Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024), [REC]³ Genesis (2012) and What We Become (2015). All three share Pet Sematary'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 Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

🍅 58% Rotten Tomatoes5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dennis Widmyerdreadunsettling
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If Pet Sematary hit the spot, these will too

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Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
2024 · dir. Carles Torrens
6.1drama · action · horror

Common ground in both: cat and zombie

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Pet Sematary does

When a kind of rabies that transforms people into aggressive creatures spreads across the planet, Manel isolates himself at home with his cat, relying on his wits to survive; but soon they must go out in search of food, by land and by sea, dodging many dangers.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: zombie

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Pet Sematary does

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%6.2horror

Common ground: tragedy

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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

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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%5.9horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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

Both sit in the same unsettling register

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

Both working the same horror territory

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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

The horror is handled with the same confidence

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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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 37%6.2horror

Horror of the same temperament

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.7horror

Both know what they want from horror

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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