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Movies that feel likeBarbarian (2022)

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

If you loved Barbarian, the closest films we have are Weapons (2025), Speak No Evil (2024) and Longlegs (2024). All three share Barbarian'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 Exhuma (2024).

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Weapons
2025 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 93%★ 7.4horror · mysteryPrime VideoMax

Both are Zach Cregger's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Barbarian does

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

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Speak No Evil
2024 · dir. James Watkins
🍅 83%★ 6.8horror · thrillerStarz

Both are built on the same subject: paranoia

When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

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Longlegs
2024 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 85%★ 6.5crime · horror · mysteryHulu

Both are working the same pair: flashback, serial killer

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Barbarian does

FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.

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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 61%★ 7.1horror · mystery

One thread runs through both: paranoia

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

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Smile
2022 · dir. Parker Finn
🍅 79%★ 6.5horror · mysteryParamount+

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

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The Accountant²
2025 · dir. Gavin O'Connor
🍅 75%★ 6.6mystery · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Both land twists and tension at once

When an old acquaintance is murdered, Wolff is compelled to solve the case. Realizing more extreme measures are necessary, Wolff recruits his estranged and highly lethal brother, Brax, to help. In partnership with Marybeth Medina, they uncover a deadly conspiracy, becoming targets of a ruthless network of killers who will stop at nothing to keep their secrets buried.

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The Snowman
2017 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 7%★ 5.2crime · thriller · mysteryParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: serial killer

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.

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The Pope's Exorcist
2023 · dir. Julius Avery
🍅 50%★ 6.1horror · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Paranoid horror, and it commits to that

Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%★ 6.7thriller · horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: flashback

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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Case 39
2009 · dir. Christian Alvart
🍅 22%★ 6.2horror · mystery · thrillerParamount+

Gritty mystery in both cases

In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily assumes custody of Lilith while she looks for a foster family. However, Emily soon finds that dark forces surround the seemingly innocent girl, and the more she tries to protect Lilith, the more horrors she encounters.

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The Thing
2011 · dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
🍅 34%★ 6.3horror · science fiction · mysteryPeacock

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%★ 6.9mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Horror built on unease, twice over

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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