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Movies that feel like Saw 3D (2010)

If you loved Saw 3D, the closest films we have are Knock Knock (2015), Terrifier (2018) and Audition (2000). All three share Saw 3D's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 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.

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.

🍅 9% Rotten Tomatoes5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kevin Greutertdreadunsettlinggritty

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Saw (2004) · Saw II (2005) · Saw III (2006) · Saw IV (2007) · Saw V (2008) · Saw VI (2009)

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Knock Knock
2015 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 37%4.9horror · thriller · crime

Two things both keep coming back to: sadism and torture

The difference: Reviewed even better

When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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

Both are built on the same subject: sadistic horror

The difference: Missing the grit of Saw 3D

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

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Audition
2000 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 81%7.1horror · drama

One thread runs through both: sadism

The difference: Not nearly as gritty as Saw 3D

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

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Red Dragon
2002 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 68%7.2crime · thriller · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mind game

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Saw 3D does

Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%6.4horror · thriller · crime

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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The House That Jack Built
2018 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 59%6.8drama · horror · crime

Horror with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

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Bone Tomahawk
2015 · dir. S. Craig Zahler
🍅 91%7.1drama · horror · western

Crime built on dread, twice over

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

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Green Room
2016 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 90%7horror · crime · thriller

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.

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

Dread-soaked crime in both cases

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

Both lean on unease more than on horror

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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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 20%6.7crime · drama · horror

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%6.9horror

Horror of the same temperament

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

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