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Movies that feel like The Snowman (2017)

If you loved The Snowman, the closest films we have are The Lodge (2020), The Little Stranger (2018) and Resolution (2013). All three share The Snowman's twisty and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

πŸ… 7% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Tomas Alfredsongrittytensetwistydreadunsettling

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The Lodge
2020 Β· dir. Severin Fiala
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6horror Β· mystery

Common ground in both: winter and snow

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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The Little Stranger
2018 Β· dir. Lenny Abrahamson
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.5mystery Β· horror

Twisty where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

The difference: Missing the grit of The Snowman

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Resolution
2013 Β· dir. Justin Benson
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.4horror Β· thriller Β· mystery

The same preoccupation in both: cabin

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 Β· dir. Severin Fiala
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Common ground: twins

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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The Empty Man
2020 Β· dir. David Prior
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: detective and alcoholic

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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The Crimson Rivers
2000 Β· dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.9crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: serial killer

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.

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The Girl in the Fog
2017 Β· dir. Donato Carrisi
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.8mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

Gritty and tense in the same breath

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Longlegs
2024 Β· dir. Osgood Perkins
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.5crime Β· horror Β· mystery

One thread runs through both: serial killer

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.

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Case 39
2009 Β· dir. Christian Alvart
πŸ… 22%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: detective

In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.

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Black Christmas
1974 Β· dir. Bob Clark
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7.1horror Β· mystery Β· crime

Both are built on the same subject: winter

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

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The Bride
2017 Β· dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
β˜… 4.6mystery Β· horror Β· thriller

Unsettling thriller in both cases

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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House of Wax
2005 Β· dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller Β· mystery

One thread runs through both: twins

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

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