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Movies that feel like Wrong Turn (2003)

If you loved Wrong Turn, the closest films we have are The Hills Have Eyes (2006), As Above, So Below (2014) and Planet Terror (2007). All three share Wrong Turn'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, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

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πŸ… 40% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Rob Schmidtdreadunsettlingtensemelancholy
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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 Β· dir. Alexandre Aja
πŸ… 51%β˜… 6.4horror Β· thriller

The same two preoccupations: gore, and slasher

The difference: Not nearly as melancholy as Wrong Turn

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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As Above, So Below
2014 Β· dir. John Erick Dowdle
πŸ… 30%β˜… 6.3horror Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: grief

When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

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Planet Terror
2007 Β· dir. Robert Rodriguez
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7horror Β· action Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: grief

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.

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Saw V
2008 Β· dir. David Hackl
πŸ… 13%β˜… 5.8horror Β· thriller Β· crime

Both keep coming back to the same thing: survival horror

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Wrong Turn does

Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Detective Mark Hoffman is commended as a hero, but Agent Strahm is suspicious, and delves into Hoffman's past. Meanwhile, another group of people are put through a series of gruesome tests.

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From Hell
2001 Β· dir. Albert Hughes
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.7horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Wrong Turn does

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

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The Eye
2002 Β· dir. Oxide Pang Chun
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.6horror

Both lean on melancholy more than on horror

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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Friday the 13th
2009 Β· dir. Marcus Nispel
πŸ… 26%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller

Common ground: slasher

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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28 Weeks Later
2007 Β· dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.8horror Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 Β· dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.8thriller Β· horror

Both are built on the same subject: gore

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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Saw VI
2009 Β· dir. Kevin Greutert
πŸ… 39%β˜… 6.1horror Β· thriller

Common ground: survival horror

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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

Common ground: mountain

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 Boy
2016 Β· dir. William Brent Bell
πŸ… 31%β˜… 6horror Β· mystery Β· thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.

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