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Movies that feel likeThe Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

If you loved The Blackcoat's Daughter, the closest films we have are Hellhole (2022), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) and Longlegs (2024). All three share The Blackcoat's Daughter'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 Cat People (1942).

πŸ… 77% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Osgood Perkinsdreadunsettlingtwistylonely
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Hellhole
2022 Β· dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.8horror Β· mysteryNetflix

One thread runs through both: possession

The difference: Takes it somewhere less lonely than The Blackcoat's Daughter does

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 Β· dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.9horror Β· romance

The same preoccupation in both: loneliness

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Blackcoat's Daughter does

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

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Longlegs
2024 Β· dir. Osgood Perkins
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.5crime Β· horror Β· mysteryHulu

Osgood Perkins directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Blackcoat's Daughter does

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.

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The Legend of Hell House
1973 Β· dir. John Hough
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.6horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: 44 years apart, and the 1970s show

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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Saint Maud
2020 Β· dir. Rose Glass
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.6horror Β· mystery Β· thrillerPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: loneliness

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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The Wailing
2016 Β· dir. Na Hong-jin
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.4horror Β· mystery

Both are working the same pair: exorcism, murder

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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You're Next
2013 Β· dir. Adam Wingard
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.6horror Β· thriller Β· mysteryPrime VideoStarz

Twisty and lonely in the same breath

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

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Scream 3
2000 Β· dir. Wes Craven
πŸ… 45%β˜… 5.7horror Β· mysteryHuluParamount+

Both lean on dread more than on horror

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

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Cat People
1942 Β· dir. Jacques Tourneur
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2mystery Β· horror Β· romance

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

A Serbian Γ©migrΓ© in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

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The Little Stranger
2018 Β· dir. Lenny Abrahamson
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.5mystery Β· horror

Horror with a pulse of twists, in both cases

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Pulse
2001 Β· dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
πŸ… 76%β˜… 6.6horror Β· thriller Β· mystery

Mystery built on loneliness, twice over

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

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The Medium
2021 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mysteryRent or buy

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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