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Movies that feel likeSleepy Hollow (1999)

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

If you loved Sleepy Hollow, the closest films we have are Noroi: The Curse (2005), Sinister (2012) and Crimson Peak (2015). All three share Sleepy Hollow's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Resolution (2013).

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

An investigator piecing together a legend that turns out true

The difference: Grainy found footage — craft swapped for creeping realism

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

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Sinister
2012 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 64%★ 6.8horror · thriller · mysteryHuluPeacock

The same mix in both: tension, then twists

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Sleepy Hollow for an angle of its own

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

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Crimson Peak
2015 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%★ 6.5horror · mystery · romanceNetflix

A crumbling gothic pile hiding murders someone must unravel

The difference: Romance drives it — the ghosts are almost bystanders

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

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Scream
2022 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 76%★ 6.3horror · mysteryParamount+

One thread runs through both: halloween

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

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%★ 6.4horror · thriller · mysteryRent or buy

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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Red Riding Hood
2011 · dir. Catherine Hardwicke
🍅 10%★ 5.4mystery · fantasy · horrorMax

A storybook village hunting the monster hiding in its midst

The difference: Teen love triangle first, mystery second — and critics savaged it

Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.

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The Skeleton Key
2005 · dir. Iain Softley
🍅 38%★ 6.5drama · horror · mysteryPrime VideoPeacock

An outsider prying into a haunted house's occult past

The difference: Humid Southern gothic that saves everything for one twist

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

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Ghost Ship
2002 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 14%★ 5.6horror · mystery · thriller

Foolhardy skeptics poking into a haunting that fights back

The difference: Schlocky salvage-crew horror with none of Burton's craft

After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

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The Sentinel
1977 · dir. Michael Winner
🍅 45%★ 6.3horror · mystery · fantasyNetflix

Gothic dread creeping through ordinary rooms toward hell itself

The difference: Grimy 70s horror — genuinely sordid, never playful

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

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The Grudge
2004 · dir. Takashi Shimizu
🍅 41%★ 5.9horror · mystery · thrillerPeacock

A rational outsider meeting a curse the locals already fear

The difference: Jump-scare machinery — no mystery to actually solve

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 · dir. Luigi Bazzoni
★ 6.6thriller · mystery · drama

Dreamlike mystery in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Sleepy Hollow does

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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