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Movies that feel like The Ring Two (2005)

If you loved The Ring Two, the closest films we have are Ring (1998), Flatliners (2017) and Friday the 13th (2009). All three share The Ring Two's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Aiden, she must dig into Samara's past even further.

🍅 21% Rotten Tomatoes5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hideo Nakatacontemplativedreadunsettlingtense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Ring (2002) · Rings (2017)

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Ring
1998 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 98%7.2horror · thriller

Hideo Nakata working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed even better

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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Flatliners
2017 · dir. Niels Arden Oplev
🍅 4%5.2drama · horror · thriller

Contemplative and dread-soaked in the same breath

Five medical students, hoping to understand the mystery of what lies beyond life, embark on a dangerous experiment. When their hearts are stopped for a short period of time, they have a near-death experience…

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Friday the 13th
2009 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 26%5.5horror · thriller

Unsettling where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as The Ring Two

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

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

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%6.5drama · horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

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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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%6.4horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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Stoker
2013 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 70%6.7drama · horror · thriller

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Following her father Richard's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker withdraws further into the quiet rural life she shares with her emotionally disturbed mother Evie. But her curiosity is stirred when her mysterious uncle Charlie, who she has never met, suddenly arrives unannounced. Told that the darkly charismatic Charlie will now be staying at the house, India's initial well-founded distrust of her uncle's motivations begins to waver as she finds herself becoming ever more deeply entranced by his sinister charms.

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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%6.8drama · horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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The Orphanage
2007 · dir. J. A. Bayona
🍅 87%7.4horror · drama · thriller

Drama with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

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Funny Games
1997 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 73%7.5drama · horror · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

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