
Movies that feel like The Skeleton Key (2005)
If you loved The Skeleton Key, the closest films we have are Footprints on the Moon (1975), Noroi: The Curse (2005) and Next of Kin (1982). All three share The Skeleton Key's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Shudder and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.
If The Skeleton Key hit the spot, these will too

Both are built on the same subject: dreams
The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Common ground: occult
The difference: Missing the stillness of The Skeleton Key

The same preoccupation in both: haunted house
The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Both land stillness and dread at once
The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than The Skeleton Key does

Both are Iain Softley's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Not nearly as dread-soaked as The Skeleton Key

One thread runs through both: attic

Both keep coming back to the same thing: nurse

Unsettling and twisty in the same breath

Both lean on tension more than on drama

Common ground: plantation


Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases
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