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Movies that feel like Veronica (2017)

If you loved Veronica, the closest films we have are [REC]³ Genesis (2012), [REC]² (2009) and Evil Dead Burn (2026). All three share Veronica's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 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.

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

🍅 86% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paco Plazadreadunsettling
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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

The same hand behind both of them: Paco Plaza

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

Both are Paco Plaza's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Veronica does

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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Evil Dead Burn
2026 · dir. Sébastien Vaniček
7.7horror

Common ground in both: widow and supernatural

After her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family — descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into creatures that feed on fear, she comes to discover that the vows she took in life survive even in death.

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%5.9horror

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%6.2horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

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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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%6.2horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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Insidious: Chapter 2
2013 · dir. James Wan
🍅 38%6.6horror · thriller

Both are working the same pair: possession, family

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.7horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%5.5horror

Both sit in the same unsettling register

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 Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Cut from the same horror cloth

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%5.7horror

Horror of the same temperament

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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