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Movies that feel like The Strangers (2008)

If you loved The Strangers, the closest films we have are Pearl (2022), Child's Play (1988) and Halloween (2007). All three share The Strangers' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

🍅 50% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bryan Bertinodreadunsettling
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Pearl
2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 93%7horror

Two things both keep coming back to: murder and serial killer

The difference: Reviewed even better

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%6.7horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: slasher

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%6.1horror

Both are built on the same subject: mask

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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X
2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 94%6.5horror

Common ground: serial killer

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 42%5.8horror

The same preoccupation in both: murder

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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The Amityville Horror
2005 · dir. Andrew Douglas
🍅 23%5.9horror

Both land dread and unease at once

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%6horror

One thread runs through both: slasher

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 37%6.2horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%5.5horror · thriller

Horror built on unease, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Strangers does

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%6.9horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%5.5horror

A streak of unease through both

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

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

Both working the same horror territory

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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