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Movies that feel like The Medium (2021)

If you loved The Medium, the closest films we have are Incantation (2022), Exhuma (2024) and Alone (2007). All three share The Medium'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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 83% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Banjong Pisanthanakundreadunsettlingtwisty
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Incantation
2022 Β· dir. Kevin Ko
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.2horror

Common ground in both: occult and found footage

The difference: Not nearly as twisty as The Medium

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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Exhuma
2024 Β· dir. Jang Jae-hyun
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.9mystery Β· horror Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: shaman

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Medium does

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remainsβ€”and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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Alone
2007 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
β˜… 6.4horror Β· mystery Β· drama

Both are Banjong Pisanthanakun's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Medium does

When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the surviving sister, haunted by Ploy's vengeful ghost.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 Β· dir. Jung Bum-shik
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery

One thread runs through both: found footage

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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Shutter
2004 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Banjong Pisanthanakun working the same nerve twice

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 Β· dir. Koji Shiraishi
β˜… 6.8horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: occult

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Hellhole
2022 Β· dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.8horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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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Paranormal Activity
2007 Β· dir. Oren Peli
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery

Both are working the same pair: supernatural horror, pseudo-documentary

After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of the night.

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The Wailing
2016 Β· dir. Na Hong-jin
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.4horror Β· mystery

Common ground: shaman

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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The Little Stranger
2018 Β· dir. Lenny Abrahamson
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.5mystery Β· horror

Both lean on twists more than on horror

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 Empty Man
2020 Β· dir. David Prior
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery

Mystery with a pulse of dread, in both cases

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 Β· dir. Roberto De Feo
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.7horror Β· mystery

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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