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Movies that feel likeHouse on Haunted Hill (1959)

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

If you loved House on Haunted Hill, the closest films we have are The Innocents (1961), Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) and The House That Screamed (1969). All three share House on Haunted Hill'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 Next of Kin (1982).

🍅 80% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. William Castledreadunsettlingtwisty
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The Innocents
1961 · dir. Jack Clayton
🍅 95%★ 7.7horror · mystery

Common ground in both: haunted house and black and white

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2mystery · horror · drama

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Leans harder into drama than House on Haunted Hill does

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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The House That Screamed
1969 · dir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than House on Haunted Hill does

Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.

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Carnival of Souls
1962 · dir. Herk Harvey
🍅 87%★ 7horror · mystery · fantasyPrime VideoMax

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

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Coma
1978 · dir. Michael Crichton
🍅 81%★ 6.9thriller · mystery · horror

Both lean on unease more than on horror

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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Next of Kin
1982 · dir. Tony Williams
🍅 100%★ 6.2horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: haunted house

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%★ 6.5horror · mysteryRent or buy

Twisty mystery in both cases

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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The Uninvited
1944 · dir. Lewis Allen
🍅 95%★ 7.2mystery · horror · fantasy

Horror built on dread, twice over

A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%★ 6.5horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Mystery built on unease, twice over

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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Hellhole
2022 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%★ 5.8horror · mysteryNetflix

A streak of twists through both

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%★ 5.5mystery · horror

Horror in the same key

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%★ 6.5horror · mysteryPrime Video

Cut from the same mystery cloth

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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