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Movies that feel likeBaba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest (2020)

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

If you loved Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest, the closest films we have are Incantation (2022), The Eye (2002) and The Pool (2018). All three share Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest'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 White Zombie (1932).

★ 4.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevskydreadunsettling
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If Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest hit the spot, these will too

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

Both land dread and unease at once

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 Eye
2002 · dir. Oxide Pang
🍅 63%★ 6.6horror

Both lean on dread 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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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%★ 5.2thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: Played as thriller first

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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

Both run unsettling where it counts

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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White Zombie
1932 · dir. Victor Halperin
🍅 77%★ 6.2horrorPrime Video

The horror is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.6mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

The same hand behind both of them: Svyatoslav Podgaevsky

The difference: Leans further into mystery

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead
2018 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.4horror · fantasy · romancePrime Video

Svyatoslav Podgaevsky directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%★ 5horror

Both working the same horror territory

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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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%★ 4.9horrorHulu

Both know what they want from horror

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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

Both are horror through and through

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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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%★ 5.3horrorPeacock

Horror approached the same way

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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