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Movies that feel likeThe Final Destination (2009)

A horrifying premonition saves a young man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident but terrible fates await them nonetheless.

If you loved The Final Destination, the closest films we have are Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), The Little Stranger (2018) and The Medium (2021). All three share The Final Destination'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 Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018).

🍅 28% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David R. Ellisdreadunsettlingtwisty
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Final Destination (2000) · Final Destination 2 (2003) · Final Destination 3 (2006) · Final Destination 5 (2011) · Final Destination Bloodlines (2025)

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

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%★ 5.5mystery · horror

Twisty horror, and it commits to that

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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

One thread runs through both: supernatural horror

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

Both are built on the same subject: vision

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

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

Mystery built on dread, twice over

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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Hellhole
2022 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%★ 5.8horror · mysteryNetflix

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%★ 5.2horror · mysteryHulu

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%★ 5.7horror · mysteryNetflix

Both lean on unease more than on mystery

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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

Both run twisty where it counts

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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Ghost Ship
2002 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 14%★ 5.6horror · mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: gore

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Final Destination does

After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

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

Horror approached the same way

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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