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Movies that feel like Terrifier (2018)

If you loved Terrifier, the closest films we have are Annabelle Comes Home (2019), X (2022) and Halloween Kills (2021). All three share Terrifier's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

πŸ… 63% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Damien Leonedreadunsettling
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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 Β· dir. Gary Dauberman
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.9horror

The same preoccupation in both: halloween

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her β€œsafely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new targetβ€”the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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X
2022 Β· dir. Ti West
πŸ… 94%β˜… 6.5horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: slasher

The difference: Reviewed even better

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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Halloween Kills
2021 Β· dir. David Gordon Green
πŸ… 38%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: halloween

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Terrifier does

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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The Nun
2018 Β· dir. Corin Hardy
πŸ… 24%β˜… 5.4horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 Β· dir. David F. Sandberg
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.5horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creationβ€”Annabelle.

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Pet Sematary
2019 Β· dir. Dennis Widmyer
πŸ… 58%β˜… 5.7horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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Veronica
2017 Β· dir. Paco Plaza
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.2horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a sΓ©ance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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The Borderlands
2014 Β· dir. Elliot Goldner
πŸ… 83%β˜… 5.8horror

Both run unsettling where it counts

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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Annabelle
2014 Β· dir. John R. Leonetti
πŸ… 28%β˜… 5.5horror

Horror in the same key

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 Β· dir. Marcus Nispel
πŸ… 37%β˜… 6.2horror

Common ground: gore

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 Β· dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
β˜… 4.7horror

Cut from the same horror cloth

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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Jeepers Creepers
2001 Β· dir. Victor Salva
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.2horror

Both are built on the same subject: slasher

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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