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Movies that feel likeThe Neon Demon (2016)

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

If you loved The Neon Demon, the closest films we have are Obsession (2026), Hellraiser (1987) and Creep (2014). All three share The Neon Demon'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 Saint Maud (2020).

🍅 59% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nicolas Winding Refndreadunsettlingtensedreamlikeobsessive
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Obsession
2026 · dir. Curry Barker
🍅 93%★ 7.9horror · thrillerPeacock

Common ground: obsession

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

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Hellraiser
1987 · dir. Clive Barker
🍅 72%★ 6.9horror · thrillerPrime Video

Two things both keep coming back to: seduction and surrealism

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

One thread runs through both: psychopath

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than The Neon Demon

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Saint Maud
2020 · dir. Rose Glass
🍅 92%★ 6.6horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: obsession

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than The Neon Demon does

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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Possession
1981 · dir. Andrzej Żuławski
🍅 87%★ 7.2horrorRent or buy

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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The Devil's Advocate
1997 · dir. Taylor Hackford
🍅 65%★ 7.5horror · drama · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: seduction

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Neon Demon does

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

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Truth or Dare
2018 · dir. Jeff Wadlow
🍅 16%★ 5.3thriller · horrorMax

Tense where it counts, dreamlike underneath

A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.

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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 · dir. Leigh Whannell
🍅 56%★ 6.1horror · thriller

Both lean on dread more than on horror

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%★ 6.4horrorPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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Crawl
2019 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 84%★ 6.1horror · thrillerNetflixParamount+

Tense horror in both cases

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%★ 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

Thriller built on dream logic, twice over

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%★ 5.6horror · thrillerStarz

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

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