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Movies that feel likeHellraiser (1987)

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

If you loved Hellraiser, the closest films we have are Possession (1981), I Saw the Devil (2010) and Altered States (1980). All three share Hellraiser'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 Ring (1998).

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Possession
1981 · dir. Andrzej Żuławski
🍅 87%★ 7.2horrorRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: gore

The difference: Trades the tension of Hellraiser for an angle of its own

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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I Saw the Devil
2010 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 83%★ 7.8thriller · horror

One thread runs through both: revenge

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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Altered States
1980 · dir. Ken Russell
🍅 85%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: ritual

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Hellraiser does

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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The Woman in Black
2012 · dir. James Watkins
🍅 66%★ 6.4drama · horror · thrillerParamount+

Common ground: revenge

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Hellraiser does

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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Martyrs
2008 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 66%★ 7horror · drama · thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

The difference: Reviewed even better

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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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 19%★ 5.7horror · thriller

Common ground: haunted house

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 Neon Demon
2016 · dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
🍅 59%★ 6.1horror · thrillerPrime Video

Two things both keep coming back to: seduction and surrealism

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

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Blade II
2002 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 57%★ 6.7fantasy · horror · actionPeacock

Another one that scratches it

Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · dir. Samuel Bayer
🍅 14%★ 5.2horror · mystery · thrillerMax

Tense where it counts, dreamlike underneath

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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Friday the 13th
1980 · dir. Sean S. Cunningham
🍅 50%★ 6.3horrorNetflixParamount+

Relentless horror, and it commits to that

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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Ma
2019 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 55%★ 5.6horror · thrillerHuluPeacock

Thriller built on dread, twice over

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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