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Movies that feel likeSinners (2025)

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

If you loved Sinners, the closest films we have are Blood Red Sky (2021), Day Watch (2006) and Ziam (2025). All three share Sinners' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Hokum (2026).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ryan Cooglerdreadunsettlingkinetictensedreamlike
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Blood Red Sky
2021 · dir. Peter Thorwarth
🍅 81%★ 6.1horror · thriller · actionNetflix

A hidden monstrous nature gets forced out to protect the people someone loves

The difference: A hijacked-plane vampire thriller, contained to one night in the sky

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.

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Day Watch
2006 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 62%★ 6.4fantasy · action · adventure

A dreamlike battle between light and dark forces erupting into violence

The difference: A Russian urban-fantasy epic, more mythic and less regionally specific

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%★ 4.9horror · thriller · actionNetflix

A skilled fighter using everything they've got against a horde of monsters

The difference: A zombie martial-arts survival film, no vampires or period setting

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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Nosferatu
2024 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror · fantasyHulu

A vampire's arrival unleashes an old, dreamlike kind of dread

The difference: A gothic obsession-driven remake, colder and more European in tone

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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The Black Phone
2022 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 81%★ 6.9horror · thrillerNetflix

A small-town evil surfaces with a dreamlike, nightmarish dread

The difference: A child-abduction horror with no vampires or period setting

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

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Hokum
2026 · dir. Damian McCarthy
🍅 90%★ 7.3horror · thrillerRent or buy

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Trades the momentum of Sinners for an angle of its own

When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.

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Unhinged
2020 · dir. Derrick Borte
🍅 49%★ 6action · thriller · horrorPrime Video

Both land momentum and tension at once

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Rachel is a divorced single mother whose bad day gets even worse. She's running late to drop her son off at school when she honks her horn impatiently at a fellow driver during rush-hour traffic. After an exchange of words, she soon realizes that the mysterious man is following her and her young son in his truck. A case of road rage quickly escalates, at horrifyingly psychotic proportions, into full-blown terror as Rachel discovers the psychopath's sinister plan for revenge. He is single-mindedly determined to teach her a deadly lesson.

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Truth or Dare
2018 · dir. Jeff Wadlow
🍅 16%★ 5.3thriller · horrorMax

Dreamlike horror in both cases

A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.

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Dracula Untold
2014 · dir. Gary Shore
🍅 26%★ 6.2horror · action · fantasyPrime Video

A person turns to dark power to protect the people they love most

The difference: An origin story where a hero willingly becomes the monster

Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 34%★ 5.9action · fantasy · horrorMax

History gets reimagined with vampires stalking through a real era

The difference: A tongue-in-cheek historical mashup, campier than a grounded period drama

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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The Forever Purge
2021 · dir. Everardo Gout
🍅 48%★ 5.4action · horror · thrillerPeacock

Buried hatred erupts into violence that refuses to stay contained

The difference: A modern-day purge thriller, no vampires or musical mythology

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.

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Blade II
2002 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 57%★ 6.7fantasy · horror · actionPeacock

Vampire mythology fused with real martial fighting and kinetic bloodshed

The difference: A comic-book vampire-hunter actioner, sleeker and less historically grounded

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

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