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Movies that feel like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

If you loved The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the closest films we have are Friday the 13th (2009), Child's Play (1988) and Creep (2014). All three share The Texas Chainsaw Massacre's 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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 37% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Marcus Nispeldreadunsettling
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Friday the 13th
2009 Β· dir. Marcus Nispel
πŸ… 26%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller

Marcus Nispel directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Played as thriller first

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

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Child's Play
1988 Β· dir. Tom Holland
πŸ… 65%β˜… 6.7horror

Common ground in both: stalker and murder

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Creep
2014 Β· dir. Patrick Brice
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.3horror Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychopath

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: β€œ$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naivetΓ©, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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The Borderlands
2014 Β· dir. Elliot Goldner
πŸ… 83%β˜… 5.8horror

Both are built on the same subject: suicide

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 Β· dir. Tobe Hooper
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.4horror

Both are working the same pair: hitchhiker, slaughterhouse

The difference: 29 years apart, and the 1970s show

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.

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Triangle
2009 Β· dir. Christopher Smith
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9horror

Common ground: murder

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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Jeepers Creepers
2001 Β· dir. Victor Salva
πŸ… 47%β˜… 6.2horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.

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Thesis
1996 Β· dir. Alejandro AmenΓ‘bar
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.4horror Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: friends

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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Terrifier
2018 Β· dir. Damien Leone
πŸ… 63%β˜… 5.5horror

One thread runs through both: gore

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 Β· dir. Alexandre Aja
πŸ… 51%β˜… 6.4horror Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: gore

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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Pet Sematary
2019 Β· dir. Dennis Widmyer
πŸ… 58%β˜… 5.7horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 Β· dir. Ronny Yu
πŸ… 42%β˜… 5.8horror

Another one that scratches it

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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