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Movies that feel like Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

If you loved Thir13en Ghosts, the closest films we have are Ghost Ship (2002), Ma (2019) and I Spit on Your Grave (2010). All three share Thir13en Ghosts' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

πŸ… 19% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steve Beckdreadunsettlingtenserelentless

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Ghost Ship
2002 Β· dir. Steve Beck
πŸ… 14%β˜… 5.6horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both are Steve Beck's work, and they rhyme

The difference: None of the relentlessness Thir13en Ghosts is built on

After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

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Ma
2019 Β· dir. Tate Taylor
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.6horror Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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I Spit on Your Grave
2010 Β· dir. Steven R. Monroe
πŸ… 32%β˜… 6.2thriller Β· crime Β· horror

One thread runs through both: revenge

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Thir13en Ghosts does

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

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The Woman in Black
2012 Β· dir. James Watkins
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.4drama Β· horror Β· thriller

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Thir13en Ghosts does

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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Hellraiser
1987 Β· dir. Clive Barker
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.9horror Β· thriller

The same two preoccupations: supernatural, and haunted house

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 Β· dir. Samuel Bayer
πŸ… 14%β˜… 5.2horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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Hannibal Rising
2007 Β· dir. Peter Webber
πŸ… 16%β˜… 6.1crime Β· thriller Β· horror

The same mix in both: tension, then relentlessness

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

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I Saw the Devil
2010 Β· dir. Kim Jee-woon
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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Revenge
2017 Β· dir. Coralie Fargeat
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.4action Β· horror Β· thriller

Common ground: gore

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

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Martyrs
2008 Β· dir. Pascal Laugier
πŸ… 66%β˜… 7horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 Β· dir. Jim Gillespie
πŸ… 47%β˜… 5.9horror Β· thriller Β· mystery

Tense horror, and it commits to that

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

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Shutter
2004 Β· dir. Parkpoom Wongpoom
β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Thriller built on relentlessness, twice over

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

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