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Movies that feel like Saw VI (2009)

If you loved Saw VI, the closest films we have are Halloween Kills (2021), Lake Mungo (2009) and The Hills Have Eyes (2006). All three share Saw VI's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

🍅 39% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kevin Greutertdreadunsettlingtense

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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 3D (2010)

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

Common ground in both: murder and killer

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: death

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%6.4horror · thriller

Common ground: killer

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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

The same preoccupation in both: murder

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

One thread runs through both: torture

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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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%6.3horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · dir. Leigh Whannell
🍅 56%6.1horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

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

Unsettling horror in both cases

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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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%6.5drama · horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: torture

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Saw VI does

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Halloween
2018 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 79%6.5horror · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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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