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Movies that feel like The Pool (2018)

If you loved The Pool, the closest films we have are What We Become (2015), Death Whisperer (2023) and The Innkeepers (2012). All three share The Pool's tense and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ping Lumpraploengtensedreadunsettling
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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Tense and dread-soaked in the same breath

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

Thriller built on unease, twice over

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on horror

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%6.6thriller · horror · drama

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Pool does

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

Both sit in the same unsettling register

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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Superdeep
2020 · dir. Arseny Syukhin
4.9horror · science fiction · thriller

Thriller in the same key

In 1984, a Russian research team goes below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole is hiding. On their expedition, something unexpectedly gruesome awaits the researchers.

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The Sadness
2021 · dir. Rob Jabbaz
🍅 88%6.5horror · thriller

Both are horror through and through

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Julia's Eyes
2010 · dir. Guillem Morales
🍅 90%6.7horror · thriller

Both know what they want from thriller

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.7horror

Horror approached the same way

The difference: Not nearly as tense as The Pool

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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