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Movies that feel likeThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

If you loved The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, the closest films we have are Poltergeist (1982), The Wicker Man (1973) and Suspiria (1977). All three share The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'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 Onibaba (1964).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tobe Hooperdreadunsettling
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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%★ 7.3horrorMax

Both are Tobe Hooper's work, and they rhyme

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%★ 7.5horrorPrime Video

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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Suspiria
1977 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%★ 7.3horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 77%★ 6.8horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Horror built on dread, twice over

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%★ 6.7horrorPrime Video

One thread runs through both: slasher

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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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Both work the same unease

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%★ 7.8horrorMax

The horror is handled with the same confidence

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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The Evil Dead
1983 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 85%★ 7.3horror

Both play horror straight

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

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Dracula
1958 · dir. Terence Fisher
🍅 89%★ 7.2horror

Horror of the same temperament

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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The Exorcist
1973 · dir. William Friedkin
🍅 78%★ 8.1horrorMax

Both are horror through and through

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 94%★ 6.5horrorPrime VideoMax

The same two preoccupations: gas station, and texas

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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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