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Movies that feel likeThe Innkeepers (2012)

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.

If you loved The Innkeepers, the closest films we have are The Borderlands (2014), The Endless (2017) and Lake Mungo (2009). All three share The Innkeepers' 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 Pool (2018).

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ti Westdreadunsettlingtensemelancholy
9 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Amazon Prime Video · Peacock Premium

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If The Innkeepers hit the spot, these will too

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

Both are built on the same subject: suicide

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Innkeepers does

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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The Endless
2017 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 91%★ 6.5science fiction · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Common ground: supernatural

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The Innkeepers does

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%★ 6.2horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: ghost

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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The Eyes of My Mother
2016 · dir. Nicolas Pesce
🍅 78%★ 6.2drama · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Innkeepers does

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

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%★ 5.2thriller · horror

Tense horror, and it commits to that

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%★ 5.3thriller · horror

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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As Above, So Below
2014 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 30%★ 6.3horror · thriller

Horror built on melancholy, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

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Wrong Turn
2003 · dir. Rob Schmidt
🍅 40%★ 6.1horror · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 26%★ 5.3horrorMax

One thread runs through both: supernatural

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.

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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%★ 6.5drama · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Thriller built on melancholy, twice over

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026 · dir. Jacob Chase
🍅 57%★ 6.2horror · thrillerRent or buy

The shared currency is dread

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe. When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn't just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.

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