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Movies that feel likeThe Haunting (1963)

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…

If you loved The Haunting, the closest films we have are Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Borderlands (2014) and Dracula (1958). All three share The Haunting'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 The Eyes of My Mother (2016).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Wisedreadunsettlingmelancholy
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If The Haunting hit the spot, these will too

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Night of the Living Dead
1968 · dir. George A. Romero
🍅 95%★ 7.8horrorMaxPeacock

Common ground in both: halloween and black and white

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%★ 5.8horror

Both are built on the same subject: suicide

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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Dracula
1958 · dir. Terence Fisher
🍅 89%★ 7.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: halloween

The difference: Trades the melancholy of The Haunting for an angle of its own

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%★ 7.8horrorMax

One thread runs through both: 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 Eyes of My Mother
2016 · dir. Nicolas Pesce
🍅 78%★ 6.2drama · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Haunting does

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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Pet Sematary
1989 · dir. Mary Lambert
🍅 55%★ 6.5horrorParamount+

Horror built on melancholy, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%★ 5.5horror · thrillerPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: suicide

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Haunting does

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%★ 7.5horrorPrime Video

Common ground: 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 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 37%★ 6.2horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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Talk to Me
2023 · dir. Michael Philippou
★ 7.1horrorMax

The shared currency is melancholy

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror

Both sit in the same dread-soaked register

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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