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Movies that feel likeGhost Ship (2002)

After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

If you loved Ghost Ship, the closest films we have are Noroi: The Curse (2005), Resolution (2013) and Goodnight Mommy (2015). All three share Ghost Ship'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 Finders Keepers (2014).

πŸ… 14% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Steve Beckdreadunsettlingtwistytense
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Noroi: The Curse
2005 Β· dir. Koji Shiraishi
β˜… 6.8horror Β· mystery Β· thrillerRent or buy

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Resolution
2013 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.4horror Β· thriller Β· mysteryRent or buy

Twisty and tense in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 Β· dir. Severin Fiala
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· mystery Β· thrillerPrime Video

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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Finders Keepers
2014 Β· dir. Alexander Yellen
πŸ… 98%β˜… 4.3mystery Β· thriller Β· horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Mystery built on unease, twice over

A haunted doll teaches one little girl why children shouldn't play with undead things.

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The Empty Man
2020 Β· dir. David Prior
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery Β· thrillerHulu

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Long Weekend
1979 Β· dir. Colin Eggleston
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.5horror Β· mystery Β· thrillerPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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House of Wax
2005 Β· dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller Β· mysteryMax

The same preoccupation in both: gore

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

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The Grudge
2004 Β· dir. Takashi Shimizu
πŸ… 41%β˜… 5.9horror Β· mystery Β· thrillerPeacock

Both lean on dread more than on mystery

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

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Devil
2010 Β· dir. John Erick Dowdle
πŸ… 49%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery Β· thrillerPrime Video

Common ground: supernatural horror

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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Paranormal Activity 2
2010 Β· dir. Tod Williams
πŸ… 58%β˜… 5.7horror Β· mysteryParamount+Peacock

One thread runs through both: halloween

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Ghost Ship does

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 Β· dir. Steve Beck
πŸ… 19%β˜… 5.7horror Β· thriller

Steve Beck directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the twists of Ghost Ship for an angle of its own

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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The Bride
2017 Β· dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
β˜… 4.6mystery Β· horror Β· thrillerPrime Video

Unsettling thriller in both cases

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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