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Movies that feel likeDead Silence (2007)

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

If you loved Dead Silence, the closest films we have are The Conjuring 2 (2016), Insidious (2011) and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016). All three share Dead Silence'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 Incantation (2022).

🍅 22% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James Wandreadunsettling
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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%★ 7.3horrorMax

Both are James Wan's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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Insidious
2011 · dir. James Wan
🍅 66%★ 6.8horror · thriller

James Wan working the same nerve twice

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Dead Silence does

A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Common ground: supernatural

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

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 keep coming back to the same thing: clown

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

The same preoccupation in both: curse

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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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%★ 6.1horrorPeacock

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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The Strangers
2008 · dir. Bryan Bertino
🍅 50%★ 6.1horrorNetflixPeacock

Both lean on dread more than on horror

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

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The Amityville Horror
2005 · dir. Andrew Douglas
🍅 23%★ 5.9horrorPrime Video

Unsettling horror in both cases

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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

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

Both sit in the same unsettling register

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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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 41%★ 5.8horrorMax

The horror is handled with the same confidence

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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