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Movies that feel likeThe Skin I Live In (2011)

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

If you loved The Skin I Live In, the closest films we have are The Woman in Black (2012), I Saw the Devil (2010) and Shutter (2004). All three share The Skin I Live In'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 Goodnight Mommy (2015).

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If The Skin I Live In hit the spot, these will too

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The Woman in Black
2012 · dir. James Watkins
🍅 66%★ 6.4drama · horror · thrillerParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: Easier on the twists than The Skin I Live In

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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I Saw the Devil
2010 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 83%★ 7.8thriller · horror

One thread runs through both: revenge

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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Shutter
2004 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
★ 7horror · mystery · thriller

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

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Martyrs
2008 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 66%★ 7horror · drama · thriller

Contemplative and tense in the same breath

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mask

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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Crimson Peak
2015 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%★ 6.5horror · mystery · romanceNetflix

Twisty drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Skin I Live In does

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 · dir. Jim Gillespie
🍅 46%★ 5.9horror · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Horror built on relentlessness, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · dir. Samuel Bayer
🍅 14%★ 5.2horror · mystery · thrillerMax

Both lean on dread more than on mystery

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017 · dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
🍅 79%★ 7drama · thriller · mysteryMax

Contemplative thriller in both cases

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

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Carrie
2013 · dir. Kimberly Peirce
🍅 51%★ 5.8drama · horrorPrime Video

Drama with a pulse of unease, in both cases

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

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Revenge
2017 · dir. Coralie Fargeat
🍅 92%★ 6.4action · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Tense horror in both cases

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

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Devil
2010 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 49%★ 6.3horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Mystery built on twists, twice over

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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