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Movies that feel like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

If you loved Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the closest films we have are The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), The Little Stranger (2018) and Final Destination Bloodlines (2025). All three share Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'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.

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. André Øvredaldreadunsettlingtwisty
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%6.8horror · mystery

André Øvredal working the same nerve twice

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 · dir. Adam Stein
🍅 92%6.7horror · mystery

Common ground: 1960s

Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

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The Wailing
2016 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 99%7.4horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: small town life

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%6.2horror · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on horror

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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The Lodge
2020 · dir. Veronika Franz
🍅 75%6horror · mystery

Dread-soaked mystery in both cases

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%6.5horror · mystery

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%6.5horror · mystery

Mystery built on twists, twice over

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%5.7horror · mystery

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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Hellhole
2022 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%5.8horror · mystery

Mystery built on unease, twice over

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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Weapons
2025 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 93%7.4horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: small town life

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%6.7thriller · horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: 1960s

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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