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Movies that feel like The Changeling (1980)

If you loved The Changeling, the closest films we have are Poltergeist (1982), The Fog (1980) and Suspiria (1977). All three share The Changeling's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel and YouTube TV and others, checked against today's data.

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Medakdreadunsettlinglonely

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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%7.3horror

Both keep circling back to medium

The difference: Missing the loneliness of The Changeling

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 76%6.8horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Suspiria
1977 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%7.3horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 85%7.4horror

Horror built on unease, twice over

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%7.5horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%6.7horror

Both sit in the same unsettling register

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 · dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
🍅 96%6.9horror · romance

Loneliness is the shared currency

The difference: Leans romance where The Changeling does not

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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The Exorcist
1973 · dir. William Friedkin
🍅 78%8.1horror

The same horror instincts

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

Cut from the same horror cloth

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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Final Destination
2000 · dir. James Wong
🍅 51%6.7horror

Both are horror through and through

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%7.8horror

Horror approached the same way

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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Saw II
2005 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%6.6horror

The same horror instincts

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2000s show

The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

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