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Movies that feel likePulse (2001)

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

If you loved Pulse, the closest films we have are The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017) and You're Next (2013). All three share Pulse'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 Resolution (2013).

🍅 76% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawadreadunsettlingtensetwistyatmosphericlonely
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The Legend of Hell House
1973 · dir. John Hough
🍅 72%★ 6.6horror · mystery

Common ground in both: isolation and afterlife

The difference: Trades the tension of Pulse for an angle of its own

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 77%★ 5.9horror · mysteryPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: loneliness

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

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You're Next
2013 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 79%★ 6.6horror · thriller · mysteryPrime VideoStarz

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

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Saint Maud
2020 · dir. Rose Glass
🍅 92%★ 6.6horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: loneliness

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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Sleep Tight
2011 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 91%★ 7.2thriller · horrorPrime Video

The same mix in both: tension, then loneliness

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.

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

Horror built on twists, twice over

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

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Scream 3
2000 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 45%★ 5.7horror · mysteryHuluParamount+

One thread runs through both: isolation

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%★ 6.4horror · thriller · mysteryRent or buy

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Cat People
1942 · dir. Jacques Tourneur
🍅 92%★ 7.2mystery · horror · romance

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Pulse does

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

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Suicide Room
2011 · dir. Jan Komasa
★ 6.6drama · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Both are working the same pair: suicide, internet

Moody, dark, and handsome Dominik is terrorized at school, after video footage of his drunken kiss with classmate Aleksandr goes viral. Grappling with public humiliation, Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based "suicide room," where the pink-haired rebel Sylwia consoles him.

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The Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%★ 5.8thriller · mystery · horror

Common ground: flashback

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 · dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · romance

Lonely horror in both cases

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

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