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Movies that feel like The Haunting (1963)

If you loved The Haunting, the closest films we have are Onibaba (1964), The Wicker Man (1973) and The Exorcist (1973). All three share The Haunting'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 HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel and HBO Max and others, checked against today's data.

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…

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Wisedreadunsettling

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

Both built around black and white

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

Both keep circling back to disappearance

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

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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

Both trade on unease more than on being horror

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

Haunted house is the engine of both

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 horror in both cases

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

Both work the same unease

The difference: A 1980s film, from a different era of filmmaking

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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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%7.3horror

Horror approached the same way

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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

Cut from the same horror cloth

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%6.9horror

Both are horror through and through

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

Haunted house sits at the heart of each

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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