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Movies that feel likeThe Descent (2005)

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

If you loved The Descent, the closest films we have are Triangle (2009), The Eye (2002) and Mama (2013). All three share The Descent'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 Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Neil Marshallepicdreadunsettling
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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%★ 6.9horrorPrime VideoPeacock

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Trades the scale of The Descent for an angle of its own

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

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The Eye
2002 · dir. Oxide Pang
🍅 63%★ 6.6horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

Adventure built on unease, twice over

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%★ 5.5horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: gore

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

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

Adventure with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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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Hellboy
2019 · dir. Neil Marshall
🍅 17%★ 5.3fantasy · horror · actionNetflix

Neil Marshall directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.

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Anaconda
1997 · dir. Luis Llosa
🍅 41%★ 4.9adventure · horror · thrillerNetflixStarz

Both are built on the same subject: expedition

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Descent does

A 'National Geographic' film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest — and deadliest — snake.

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Van Helsing
2004 · dir. Stephen Sommers
★ 6.1horror · adventure · actionPrime VideoPeacock

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

The difference: Sits closer to action than The Descent does

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.

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The Amityville Horror
2005 · dir. Andrew Douglas
🍅 23%★ 5.9horrorPrime Video

Both working the same horror territory

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%★ 6.2horror

Horror in the same key

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%★ 6.1horrorPeacock

Both know what they want from horror

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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