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Movies that feel like Ring (1998)

If you loved Ring, the closest films we have are The Ring (2002), Noroi: The Curse (2005) and Candyman (1992). All three share Ring'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 Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

🍅 98% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hideo Nakatadreadunsettlingtense
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The Ring
2002 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 72%7.1horror · mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: journalist and island

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

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

Common ground in both: curse and occult

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Ring does

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

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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%6.7drama · horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: urban legend

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Ring does

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: occult

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%7.4horror · thriller

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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Friday the 13th
2009 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 26%5.5horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: cabin in the woods

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%7.2horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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

Common ground: supernatural

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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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: supernatural

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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Julia's Eyes
2010 · dir. Guillem Morales
🍅 90%6.7horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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Drag Me to Hell
2009 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 92%6.6horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: curse

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

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