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Movies that feel likeSplit (2017)

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

If you loved Split, the closest films we have are The Visit (2015), Green Room (2016) and The Sadness (2021). All three share Split'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 Kill List (2011).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. M. Night Shyamalandreadunsettlingtensegritty
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The Visit
2015 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 68%★ 6.3horror · thrillerPrime Video

Shyamalan's comeback one-two — captive kids, unreliable adults

The difference: Found-footage grandparents, comedy sharper

A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.

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Green Room
2016 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 90%★ 7horror · crime · thrillerNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: gore

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Split does

Members of a punk rock band and a tough young woman are forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.

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The Sadness
2021 · dir. Rob Jabbaz
🍅 88%★ 6.5horror · thrillerRent or buy

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Red Dragon
2002 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 68%★ 7.2crime · thriller · horrorNetflixPeacock

Common ground: psychological thriller

Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

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

A kidnapped kid outwitting a fractured, theatrical captor

The difference: Supernatural help arrives; the tone period

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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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%★ 6.3horror · thriller · crimeRent or buy

Both land tension and grit at once

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%★ 6.4horror · thrillerPrime Video

Captivity horror with predators beyond reason or mercy

The difference: Savage exploitation gore — endurance test, not mind game

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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Saw III
2006 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 28%★ 6.2horror · thriller · crime

Horror built on dread, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

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Old
2021 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 50%★ 5.8thriller · mystery · horrorPeacock

M. Night Shyamalan directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the grit of Split for an angle of its own

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

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Knock at the Cabin
2023 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 67%★ 6.1horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Shyamalan again — captives, unshakable conviction, mounting dread

The difference: Talkier moral standoff — one room and a question, no hunt

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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Don't Breathe
2016 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 88%★ 7.1horror · thrillerPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: kidnapping

The difference: Easier on the grit than Split

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

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Knock Knock
2015 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 37%★ 4.9horror · thriller · crimeMax

Unsettling thriller in both cases

When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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