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Movies that feel likeFriday the 13th (2009)

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

If you loved Friday the 13th, the closest films we have are Creep (2014), Halloween (2018) and Lake Mungo (2009). All three share Friday the 13th'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 The Pool (2018).

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Marcus Nispeldreadunsettlingtense
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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: axe murder

The difference: Reviewed even better

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Halloween
2018 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 79%★ 6.5horror · thrillerPeacock

Two things both keep coming back to: halloween and slasher

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 67%★ 6.5thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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Ring
1998 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 98%★ 7.2horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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

Both lean on unease more than on horror

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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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 34%★ 5.7horror · thrillerMax

Both are built on the same subject: halloween

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

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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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Saw VI
2009 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 39%★ 6.1horror · thriller

Horror built on dread, twice over

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%★ 5.7horror · thrillerStarz

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

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30 Days of Night
2007 · dir. David Slade
🍅 51%★ 6.6horror · thriller

A streak of tension through both

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

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Countdown
2019 · dir. Justin Dec
🍅 26%★ 5.4horror · thrillerNetflix

Horror approached the same way

A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

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