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Movies that feel like The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

If you loved The Curse of La Llorona, the closest films we have are The Nun II (2023), Annabelle Comes Home (2019) and The Nun (2018). All three share The Curse of La Llorona's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Chavesdreadunsettling
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If The Curse of La Llorona hit the spot, these will too

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

The same hand behind both of them: Michael Chaves

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%5.9horror

Common ground in both: supernatural and priest

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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The Nun
2018 · dir. Corin Hardy
🍅 24%5.4horror

Common ground: spin off

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

Both are built on the same subject: religion and supernatural

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%6.2horror

One thread runs through both: supernatural

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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Ouija
2014 · dir. Stiles White
🍅 6%4.5horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%5.3horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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Evil Dead Rise
2023 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 85%6.5horror · thriller

Los Angeles shapes both of them

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Curse of La Llorona does

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%6.2horror

Horror built on unease, twice over

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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In the Tall Grass
2019 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 36%5.5horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%5.5horror

Both run unsettling where it counts

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.7horror

Both working the same horror territory

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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