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Movies that feel likeCannibal Holocaust (1980)

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

If you loved Cannibal Holocaust, the closest films we have are Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976), The Fog (1980) and The Wicker Man (1973). All three share Cannibal Holocaust'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 Wait Until Dark (1967).

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ruggero Deodatodreadunsettlinggritty
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
🍅 71%★ 5.8horror · drama

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Cannibal Holocaust does

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 77%★ 6.8horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Both lean on dread more than on horror

The difference: Easier on the grit than Cannibal Holocaust

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%★ 7.5horrorPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: ritual

The difference: Reviewed even better

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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Wait Until Dark
1967 · dir. Terence Young
🍅 96%★ 7.7thriller · crime · horror

Both run gritty where it counts

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Cannibal Holocaust does

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

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

A streak of grit through both

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%★ 7.3horrorMax

Both work the same unease

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%★ 6.7horrorPrime Video

Horror approached the same way

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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Black Christmas
1974 · dir. Bob Clark
🍅 73%★ 7.1horror · mystery · crimePrime VideoPeacock

The shared currency is grit

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.

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

The horror is handled with the same confidence

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 Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%★ 6.4horror · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: rape

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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