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Movies that feel likeThe Ring (2002)

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

If you loved The Ring, the closest films we have are The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Wailing (2016) and Noroi: The Curse (2005). All three share The Ring'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 Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018).

🍅 72% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gore Verbinskidreadunsettlingtwisty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Ring Two (2005) · Rings (2017)

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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · dir. Daniel Myrick
🍅 86%★ 6.5horror · mysteryMax

The same two preoccupations: supernatural, and paranormal

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

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The Wailing
2016 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 99%★ 7.4horror · mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: the investigation and curse

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: journalist

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Ring does

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

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It Follows
2015 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 95%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

Common ground: supernatural

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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Paranormal Activity 3
2011 · dir. Henry Joost
🍅 68%★ 5.8horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

Twisty horror in both cases

In 1988, young sisters Katie and Kristi befriend an invisible entity who resides in their home.

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A Cure for Wellness
2017 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 42%★ 6.4horror · mystery · science fictionPrime Video

Gore Verbinski working the same nerve twice

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Ring does

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 45%★ 6.2horror · mysteryMax

Both are built on the same subject: journalist

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

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Final Destination 2
2003 · dir. David R. Ellis
🍅 52%★ 6.2horror · mysteryMax

Both lean on dread more than on mystery

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

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Jeepers Creepers
2001 · dir. Victor Salva
🍅 47%★ 6.2horror · mystery

Horror built on unease, twice over

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

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Scream 2
1997 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 83%★ 6.3horror · mysteryHuluParamount+

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%★ 6.5horror · mysteryPrime Video

One thread runs through both: paranormal

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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