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Movies that feel likeThe Legend of Hell House (1973)

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

If you loved The Legend of Hell House, the closest films we have are Cat People (1942), The Innocents (1961) and The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017). All three share The Legend of Hell House'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 Next of Kin (1982).

🍅 72% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Houghdreadunsettlingtwistylonely
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Cat People
1942 · dir. Jacques Tourneur
🍅 92%★ 7.2mystery · horror · romance

One thread runs through both: isolation

The difference: Sits closer to romance than The Legend of Hell House does

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

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The Innocents
1961 · dir. Jack Clayton
🍅 95%★ 7.7horror · mystery

Common ground in both: haunted house and haunting

The difference: Easier on the loneliness than The Legend of Hell House

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 77%★ 5.9horror · mysteryPrime Video

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: 44 years apart, and the 2010s show

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

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Pulse
2001 · dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
🍅 76%★ 6.6horror · thriller · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: afterlife

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

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House on Haunted Hill
1959 · dir. William Castle
🍅 80%★ 6.7horror · mysteryPrime VideoMax

The same preoccupation in both: haunted house

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2mystery · horror · drama

Twisty horror, and it commits to that

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971 · dir. John D. Hancock
🍅 50%★ 6.4horror · mystery · drama

Common ground: isolation

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

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Scream 3
2000 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 45%★ 5.7horror · mysteryHuluParamount+

Mystery with a pulse of loneliness, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

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Next of Kin
1982 · dir. Tony Williams
🍅 100%★ 6.2horror · mystery

Both lean on dread more than on horror

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Mystery built on unease, twice over

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%★ 6.5horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Twisty horror in both cases

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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Hour of the Wolf
1968 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 92%★ 7.5drama · horror

Lonely mystery in both cases

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

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