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Movies that feel likePsycho (1960)

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

If you loved Psycho, the closest films we have are The Birds (1963), Deep Red (1975) and The House That Screamed (1969). All three share Psycho'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 Long Weekend (1979).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alfred Hitchcockdreadunsettlingtensetwisty
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If Psycho hit the spot, these will too

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The Birds
1963 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.6horror · thrillerPeacock

Hitchcock turning the ordinary world lethally hostile

The difference: No human villain — an apocalypse with no explanation

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.

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Deep Red
1975 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%★ 7.5horror · mystery · thriller

A witnessed murder pulling an amateur into a killer's orbit

The difference: Lurid giallo style — gore and flash over quiet menace

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

A repressive household breeding something monstrous

The difference: Slow Spanish gothic — mood accumulates before the payoff

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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Coma
1978 · dir. Michael Crichton
🍅 81%★ 6.9thriller · mystery · horror

An institution hiding murder behind a respectable face

The difference: Procedural 70s paranoia — competent, never iconic

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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The Innocents
1961 · dir. Jack Clayton
🍅 95%★ 7.7horror · mystery

Ambiguous madness in black and white — is the horror real?

The difference: Ghost-story restraint — chills that whisper, never slash

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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House on Haunted Hill
1959 · dir. William Castle
🍅 80%★ 6.7horror · mysteryPrime VideoMax

A night of terror staged by a host with secrets

The difference: Carnival-gimmick fun — spooky, never truly disturbing

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%★ 6.5horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Unease building where nothing is overtly wrong — until it is

The difference: Nature is the antagonist — an eco-parable, not a killer

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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Saboteur
1942 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 81%★ 7.1thriller · mystery

Hitchcock's engine of an innocent man running for the truth

The difference: A wartime chase — adventure, not creeping horror

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · dir. Robert Aldrich
🍅 91%★ 8horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Takes it somewhere less twisty than Psycho does

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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Sinister
2012 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 64%★ 6.8horror · thriller · mysteryHuluPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%★ 6.7thriller · horror · mystery

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
2021 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 56%★ 6.2horror · mystery · thrillerMax

One thread runs through both: halloween

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

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