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Movies that feel likeSuspiria (1977)

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

If you loved Suspiria, the closest films we have are Deep Red (1975), The Innocents (1961) and House on Haunted Hill (1959). All three share Suspiria'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 Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dario Argentodreadunsettlingtwisty
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Deep Red
1975 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%★ 7.5horror · mystery · thriller

Dario Argento directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Suspiria does

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

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The Innocents
1961 · dir. Jack Clayton
🍅 95%★ 7.7horror · mystery

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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House on Haunted Hill
1959 · dir. William Castle
🍅 80%★ 6.7horror · mysteryPrime VideoMax

Twisty horror, and it commits to that

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: boarding school

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2mystery · horror · drama

Both lean on dread more than on mystery

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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Coma
1978 · dir. Michael Crichton
🍅 81%★ 6.9thriller · mystery · horror

Unsettling horror in both cases

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · dir. Daniel Myrick
🍅 86%★ 6.5horror · mysteryMax

Both are built on the same subject: witch

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

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Jeepers Creepers
2001 · dir. Victor Salva
🍅 47%★ 6.3horror · mystery

Mystery built on twists, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%★ 6.5horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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Black Christmas
1974 · dir. Bob Clark
🍅 73%★ 7.1horror · mystery · crimePrime VideoPeacock

Mystery with a pulse of unease, in both cases

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

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Scream 2
1997 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 83%★ 6.4horror · mysteryHuluParamount+

Both sit in the same twisty register

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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Paranormal Activity 3
2011 · dir. Henry Joost
🍅 68%★ 5.8horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

The same preoccupation in both: witch

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

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