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Movies that feel like Rings (2017)

If you loved Rings, the closest films we have are Ghostland (2018), Oculus (2014) and Dead Silence (2007). All three share Rings' 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.

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

🍅 7% Rotten Tomatoes4.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. F. Javier Gutiérrezdreadunsettlingdreamlikerelentless
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Ring (2002) · The Ring Two (2005)

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%6.4horror

The same preoccupation in both: hallucination

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%6.6horror

One thread runs through both: supernatural

The difference: Not nearly as relentless as Rings

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%6.1horror

The same two preoccupations: urban legend, and curse

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the investigation

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

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · dir. Samuel Bayer
🍅 14%5.2horror · mystery · thriller

Common ground: supernatural

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Rings does

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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Death Note
2017 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 36%4.5crime · fantasy · horror

Both are built on the same subject: death

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Rings does

Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.

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Ma
2019 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 55%5.6horror · thriller

Both land dread and unease at once

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 19%5.6horror · thriller

Relentless horror in both cases

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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Ouija
2014 · dir. Stiles White
🍅 6%4.5horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

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Unfriended
2014 · dir. Levan Gabriadze
🍅 62%5.6horror · mystery

Another one that scratches it

While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.

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I Spit on Your Grave
2010 · dir. Steven R. Monroe
🍅 32%6.2thriller · crime · horror

One thread runs through both: rape and revenge

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

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Truth or Dare
2018 · dir. Jeff Wadlow
🍅 16%5.2thriller · horror

Both are built on the same subject: hallucination

A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.

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