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Movies that feel like The Uninvited (1944)

If you loved The Uninvited, the closest films we have are Carnival of Souls (1962), The Sentinel (1977) and Pinocchio: Unstrung (2026). All three share The Uninvited's twisty and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV and HBO Max Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Lewis Allentwistydreadunsettlingdreamlike

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Carnival of Souls
1962 · dir. Herk Harvey
🍅 87%7horror · mystery · fantasy

Both land twists and dread at once

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

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The Sentinel
1977 · dir. Michael Winner
🍅 45%6.3horror · mystery · fantasy

The same mix in both: unease, then dream logic

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

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Pinocchio: Unstrung
2026 · dir. Rhys Frake-Waterfield
5.8horror · fantasy · mystery

Twisty mystery in both cases

The difference: 82 years apart, and the 2020s show

Influenced by a sinister Cricket and created by Geppetto, Pinocchio launches a violent crusade to carve himself into a real boy like his brother James, one piece at a time.

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Scream
2022 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 76%6.3horror · mystery

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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A Dark Song
2016 · dir. Liam Gavin
🍅 91%6.2horror · fantasy · mystery

Fantasy built on unease, twice over

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

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Sleepy Hollow
1999 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 71%7.3fantasy · thriller · mystery

Dreamlike romance, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans thriller where The Uninvited does not

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

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Nosferatu
2024 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 85%7.1horror · fantasy

Both trade on dread more than on being horror

The difference: Missing the twists of The Uninvited

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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Weapons
2025 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 93%7.4horror · mystery

Trance is the engine of both

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

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The Ring
2002 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 72%7.1horror · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

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It Follows
2015 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 95%6.8horror · mystery

Fantasy built on unease, twice over

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%6.8horror · mystery

Mystery approached the same way

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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Lights Out
2016 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 74%6.3horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: brothers and sisters

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

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