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Movies that feel likeSession 9 (2001)

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

If you loved Session 9, the closest films we have are Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018), The Medium (2021) and The Little Stranger (2018). All three share Session 9's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968).

πŸ… 68% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Brad Andersondreadunsettlingtwistycontemplative
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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 Β· dir. Jung Bum-shik
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mysteryPrime Video

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Session 9 does

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 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mysteryRent or buy

Both lean on twists more than on horror

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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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The Little Stranger
2018 Β· dir. Lenny Abrahamson
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.5mystery Β· horror

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

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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Suspiria
2018 Β· dir. Luca Guadagnino
πŸ… 65%β˜… 6.7horror Β· mystery Β· dramaPrime Video

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

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Fear Street: 1994
2021 Β· dir. Leigh Janiak
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery Β· dramaNetflix

Unsettling horror in both cases

After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 Β· dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
β˜… 7.2mystery Β· horror Β· drama

Mystery built on twists, twice over

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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Jeepers Creepers
2001 Β· dir. Victor Salva
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked drama in both cases

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 Β· dir. Roberto De Feo
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.7horror Β· mysteryNetflix

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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 Β· dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.8horror Β· mysteryNetflix

A 2020s answer to the same itch

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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Alone
2007 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
β˜… 6.4horror Β· mystery Β· drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the surviving sister, haunted by Ploy's vengeful ghost.

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Paranormal Activity 3
2011 Β· dir. Henry Joost
πŸ… 68%β˜… 5.8horror Β· mysteryParamount+Peacock

Cut from the same horror cloth

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

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The Nameless
1999 Β· dir. Jaume BalaguerΓ³
πŸ… 20%β˜… 5.8thriller Β· mystery Β· horror

Both run contemplative where it counts

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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