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Movies that feel like The Amityville Horror (2005)

If you loved The Amityville Horror, the closest films we have are Poltergeist (2015), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and Sinister 2 (2015). All three share The Amityville Horror's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

🍅 23% Rotten Tomatoes5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Andrew Douglasdreadunsettling
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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%4.9horror

Both are built on the same subject: haunted house

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 37%6.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: murder

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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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%5.3horror

Common ground: haunted house

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%6.2horror

Two things both keep coming back to: a true story and family

The difference: Reviewed even better

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance 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 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

One thread runs through both: paranormal

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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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%6.1horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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The Strangers
2008 · dir. Bryan Bertino
🍅 50%6.1horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%6.1horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%6.2horror

Both lean on unease more than on horror

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%6.9horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%5.7horror

A streak of unease through both

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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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

Both play horror straight

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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