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Movies that feel like Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)

If you loved Spiral: From the Book of Saw, the closest films we have are The Lodge (2020), A Classic Horror Story (2021) and Hellhole (2022). All three share Spiral: From the Book of Saw'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.

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

🍅 39% Rotten Tomatoes5.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Darren Lynn Bousmandreadunsettlingtwisty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Saw (2004) · Saw II (2005) · Saw III (2006) · Saw IV (2007) · Saw V (2008) · Saw VI (2009)

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The Lodge
2020 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 75%6horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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 When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.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

Twisty horror in both cases

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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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · 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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Paranormal Activity 3
2011 · dir. Henry Joost
🍅 68%5.8horror · mystery

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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

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

Mystery built on twists, twice over

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

Both lean on dread more than on horror

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

One thread runs through both: murder

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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Paranormal Activity 2
2010 · dir. Tod Williams
🍅 58%5.7horror · mystery

Unsettling mystery in both cases

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

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Fear Street: 1994
2021 · dir. Leigh Janiak
🍅 84%6.2horror · mystery · drama

A streak of twists through both

The difference: Played as drama first

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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Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 · dir. Zach Lipovsky
🍅 92%6.7horror · mystery

Both working the same horror territory

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

Mystery of the same temperament

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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