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Movies that feel likeHouse of Wax (2005)

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.

If you loved House of Wax, the closest films we have are Orphan (2009), Noroi: The Curse (2005) and Goodnight Mommy (2015). All three share House of Wax'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).

🍅 27% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Collet-Serradreadunsettlingtensetwisty
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Orphan
2009 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 59%★ 7horror · thrillerMax

The same hand behind both of them: Jaume Collet-Serra

The difference: Reviewed even better

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
★ 6.8horror · mystery · 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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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Common ground: twins

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 · dir. Alexander Yellen
🍅 98%★ 4.3mystery · thriller · horrorPrime VideoPeacock

One thread runs through both: murder

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

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 81%★ 6.4horror · thriller · mysteryRent or buy

Tense and twisty in the same breath

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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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%★ 6.2horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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Ghost Ship
2002 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 14%★ 5.6horror · mystery · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: gore

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.

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The Grudge
2004 · dir. Takashi Shimizu
🍅 41%★ 5.9horror · mystery · thrillerPeacock

Unsettling thriller in both cases

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 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 49%★ 6.3horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: murder

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

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%★ 6.7thriller · horror · mystery

Both lean on tension more than on mystery

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.6mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Horror built on twists, twice over

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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The Whole Truth
2021 · dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
★ 5.2horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

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