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In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

If you loved X, the closest films we have are Terrifier 2 (2022), Incantation (2022) and Terrified (2018). All three share X's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Veronica (2017).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ti Westdreadunsettling
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%★ 6horrorPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: slasher

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%★ 6.3horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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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Terrified
2018 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorRent or buy

Horror built on dread, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

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

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Both run unsettling where it counts

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%★ 5.5horrorPeacock

One thread runs through both: serial killer

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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The Strangers
2008 · dir. Bryan Bertino
🍅 50%★ 6.1horrorNetflixPeacock

Common ground: serial killer

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

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The Nun II
2023 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 51%★ 5.6horrorMax

Both know what they want from horror

In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.

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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 41%★ 5.8horrorMax

Both are built on the same subject: slasher

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%★ 5.7horrorParamount+

Horror approached the same way

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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In the Tall Grass
2019 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 36%★ 5.5horrorNetflix

The horror is handled with the same confidence

After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

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