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Movies that feel like The Nun II (2023)

If you loved The Nun II, the closest films we have are The Curse of La Llorona (2019), Annabelle: Creation (2017) and [REC]³ Genesis (2012). All three share The Nun II's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.

🍅 51% Rotten Tomatoes5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Chavesdreadunsettling
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The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 26%5.3horror

Michael Chaves working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Both are working the same pair: halloween, demon

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

The same preoccupation in both: demonic possession

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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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%5.9horror

Common ground: priest

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%6horror

Both are built on the same subject: halloween

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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Annabelle
2014 · dir. John R. Leonetti
🍅 28%5.5horror

One thread runs through both: demon

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: church

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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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%5.5horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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

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

One thread runs through both: demonic possession

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

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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

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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%6.1horror

Horror built on unease, twice over

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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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