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Movies that feel like Shutter (2004)

If you loved Shutter, the closest films we have are Alone (2007), The Medium (2021) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). All three share Shutter'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 Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

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Alone
2007 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
6.4horror · mystery · drama

Banjong Pisanthanakun working the same nerve twice

The difference: Missing the tension of Shutter

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

The same hand behind both of them: Banjong Pisanthanakun

The difference: None of the tension Shutter is built on

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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I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 · dir. Jim Gillespie
🍅 47%5.9horror · thriller · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

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

Common ground: suicide

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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The Skin I Live In
2011 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 81%7.6drama · horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Shutter does

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: ghost

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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

Twisty and tense in the same breath

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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The Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%5.8thriller · mystery · horror

Both are built on the same subject: flashback

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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The Woman in Black
2012 · dir. James Watkins
🍅 66%6.4drama · horror · thriller

Common ground: ghost

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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

From the 2010s, and it lands the same way

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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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%6.9mystery · horror · thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2020s show

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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