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Movies that feel likeThe Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

If you loved The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the closest films we have are Exhuma (2024), The Empty Man (2020) and Knock at the Cabin (2023). All three share The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It'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 Resolution (2013).

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Chavesdreadunsettlingtwistytense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Conjuring (2013) · The Conjuring 2 (2016)

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%★ 6.9mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Experts drawn deeper into a case that gets more dangerous the more they learn

The difference: A grave-desecration mystery about ancestral curses, not demonic possession

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%★ 6.2horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Knock at the Cabin
2023 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 67%★ 6.1horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Faith gets tested against a threat that defies rational explanation

The difference: A home-invasion apocalypse thriller, no possession or paranormal investigators

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · mystery · thriller

Both land twists and tension at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%★ 6.4horror · thriller · mysteryRent or buy

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Sinister
2012 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 64%★ 6.8horror · thriller · mysteryHuluPeacock

Both lean on unease more than on mystery

True-crime writer Ellison Oswalt is in a slump; he hasn't had a best seller in more than 10 years and is becoming increasingly desperate for a hit. So, when he discovers the existence of a snuff film showing the deaths of a family, he vows to solve the mystery. He moves his own family into the victims' home and gets to work. However, when old film footage and other clues hint at the presence of a supernatural force, Ellison learns that living in the house may be fatal.

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Old
2021 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 50%★ 5.8thriller · mystery · horrorPeacock

Thriller with a pulse of twists, in both cases

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

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Escape Room
2019 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 51%★ 6.4horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Ordinary people caught in circumstances that spiral beyond their control

The difference: A puzzle-box survival thriller, no supernatural or demonic element

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

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Devil
2010 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 49%★ 6.3horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

A confined mystery where evil is hiding in plain sight among ordinary people

The difference: A trapped-elevator thriller, claustrophobic instead of a real-case investigation

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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The Whole Truth
2021 · dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
★ 5.2horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

A family's hidden secrets resurface as something genuinely sinister

The difference: A Thai family-secrets horror, quieter and without any investigators

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%★ 6.7thriller · horror · mystery

Tense horror in both cases

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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The Nun II
2023 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 51%★ 5.6horrorMax

The same cinematic universe's demonic evil confronted by the faithful

The difference: A convent-set sequel about one nun's investigation, not a murder-trial case

In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.

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