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Movies that feel like1922 (2017)

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

If you loved 1922, the closest films we have are Oculus (2014), November (2017) and Frankenstein (2025). All three share 1922'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 Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017).

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%★ 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

The same two preoccupations: haunted house, and hallucination

The difference: Easier on the grit than 1922

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than 1922 does

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Frankenstein
2025 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 85%★ 7.4drama · fantasy · horrorNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

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Bone Tomahawk
2015 · dir. S. Craig Zahler
🍅 91%★ 7.1drama · horror · westernRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: murder

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%★ 6.9fantasy · horrorRent or buy

Common ground: murder

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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mother!
2017 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 68%★ 6.6horror · dramaRent or buy

Both land stillness and dream logic at once

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%★ 6.4horrorPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: hallucination

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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Doctor Sleep
2019 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 79%★ 7.3horror · fantasyParamount+

One thread runs through both: haunted house

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%★ 8.2fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Common ground: greed

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Death Note
2017 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 36%★ 4.5crime · fantasy · horrorNetflix

Gritty horror, and it commits to that

Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Crime with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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Saw 3D
2010 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 9%★ 5.5horror · crime

Drama built on unease, twice over

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.

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