
Movies that feel likeThe Black Phone (2022)
If you loved The Black Phone, the closest films we have are The Sadness (2021), Green Room (2016) and Sinister (2012). All three share The Black Phone'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).
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If The Black Phone hit the spot, these will too

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath
The difference: Easier on the dream logic than The Black Phone

The same mix in both: tension, then grit
The difference: Leans harder into crime than The Black Phone does

Both are Scott Derrickson's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Black Phone does

The same two preoccupations: child abuse, and kidnapping

Common ground in both: brothers and sisters and supernatural

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Scott Derrickson working the same nerve twice
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Common ground: supernatural

Dreamlike thriller, and it commits to that

One thread runs through both: small town life

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Thriller built on tension, twice over
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