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Movies that feel likeThe Blair Witch Project (1999)

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.

If you loved The Blair Witch Project, the closest films we have are The Ring (2002), Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) and Scream 2 (1997). All three share The Blair Witch Project'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 Long Weekend (1979).

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Daniel Myrickdreadunsettlingtwisty
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If The Blair Witch Project hit the spot, these will too

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The Ring
2002 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 72%★ 7.1horror · mysteryNetflixParamount+

Common ground in both: supernatural and paranormal

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

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

Both are working the same pair: witch, halloween

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

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Scream 2
1997 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 83%★ 6.3horror · mysteryHuluParamount+

Common ground: halloween

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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It Follows
2015 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 95%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

The same preoccupation in both: friends

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%★ 6.5horror · mysteryPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: paranormal

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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

The same two preoccupations: camping, and wilderness

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Blair Witch Project does

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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Jeepers Creepers
2001 · dir. Victor Salva
🍅 47%★ 6.2horror · mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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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Final Destination 2
2003 · dir. David R. Ellis
🍅 52%★ 6.2horror · mysteryMax

Both lean on twists more than on horror

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%★ 6.5horror · mysteryRent or buy

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 78%★ 6.2horror · mysteryPeacock

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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Session 9
2001 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 68%★ 6.3horror · mystery · drama

Twisty mystery in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Blair Witch Project does

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

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