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Movies that feel like The Wailing (2016)

If you loved The Wailing, the closest films we have are Hellhole (2022), Exhuma (2024) and The Medium (2021). All three share The Wailing's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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Hellhole
2022 Β· dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
πŸ… 67%β˜… 5.8horror Β· mystery

Both are working the same pair: the investigation, possession

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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Exhuma
2024 Β· dir. Jang Jae-hyun
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6.9mystery Β· horror Β· thriller

Common ground in both: exorcism and curse

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Wailing does

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remainsβ€”and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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The Medium
2021 Β· dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: shaman

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 Β· dir. Osgood Perkins
πŸ… 77%β˜… 5.9horror Β· mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: murder and priest

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

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

The same preoccupation in both: the investigation

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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery

Both are built on the same subject: small town life

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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

Common ground: murder

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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Noroi: The Curse
2005 Β· dir. Koji Shiraishi
β˜… 6.8horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: curse

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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

The same preoccupation in both: priest

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 Ring
2002 Β· dir. Gore Verbinski
πŸ… 72%β˜… 7.1horror Β· mystery

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 Β· dir. Jung Bum-shik
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery

Horror built on twists, twice over

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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Weapons
2025 Β· dir. Zach Cregger
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.4horror Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: small town life

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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