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Movies that feel likeThe Nun (2018)

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

If you loved The Nun, the closest films we have are Annabelle: Creation (2017), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) and The Conjuring 2 (2016). All three share The Nun'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 Veronica (2017).

🍅 24% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Corin Hardydreadunsettling
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Nun II (2023)

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%★ 6.5horrorMax

An isolated house, orphan girls and an evil that wants in

The difference: No gothic abbey — dusty Americana instead of Romania

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

A seance scam that invites in something horribly genuine

The difference: Character-first slow build — grief over gothic spectacle

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%★ 7.3horrorMax

The flagship — demonic siege handled by the Warrens themselves

The difference: A family home, not an abbey — warmer amid the terror

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%★ 5.5horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Pure Halloween-night menace with zero mercy

The difference: Grindhouse gore — a human maniac, nothing supernatural to fight

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

A teenage seance opening the door to something patient and cruel

The difference: Grounded Madrid apartment realism instead of gothic ruins

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%★ 5horror

Demonic corruption erupting where holiness should protect

The difference: Splattery zombie chaos played half for laughs

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%★ 5.3horrorPeacock

A marked house and an evil that targets children

The difference: Loses the original's dread — a sequel running on fumes

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%★ 5.5horrorPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: halloween

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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In the Tall Grass
2019 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 36%★ 5.5horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%★ 5.7horrorParamount+

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

One thread runs through both: demon

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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