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Movies that feel likeCarrie (2002)

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.

If you loved Carrie, the closest films we have are Ginger Snaps (2000), Thirst (2009) and Lake Mungo (2009). All three share Carrie'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).

🍅 32% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Carsondreadunsettlingtensedreamlikewistful
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Peacock Premium

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Ginger Snaps
2000 · dir. John Fawcett
🍅 90%★ 6.8horror · fantasyPrime VideoPeacock

Common ground in both: high school and growing up

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.

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Thirst
2009 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 81%★ 7.1drama · horror · thriller

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Carrie for an angle of its own

A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%★ 6.2horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than Carrie does

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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The Devil's Backbone
2001 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 93%★ 7.3fantasy · drama · horror

Dreamlike thriller in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Carrie does

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%★ 5.2thriller · horror

Dread-soaked tv movie, and it commits to that

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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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%★ 7.1horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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

Both lean on wistfulness more than on tv movie

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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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Day Watch
2006 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 62%★ 6.4fantasy · action · adventure

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%★ 5.8thriller · horrorPrime Video

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
★ 5.9horror · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on unease more than on tv movie

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 2020s show

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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

Both work the same dream logic

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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