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Movies that feel likeI Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

If you loved I Know What You Did Last Summer, the closest films we have are Shutter (2004), The Skin I Live In (2011) and I Saw the Devil (2010). All three share I Know What You Did Last Summer's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

🍅 46% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jim Gillespiedreadunsettlingtensetwistyrelentless
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Shutter
2004 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
★ 7horror · mystery · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

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The Skin I Live In
2011 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 81%★ 7.6drama · horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: Reviewed even better

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

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

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Less twisty, more its own thing

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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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Tense and twisty in the same breath

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

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

Both lean on relentlessness more than on horror

The difference: Played as drama first

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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Unfriended
2014 · dir. Levan Gabriadze
🍅 62%★ 5.6horror · mysteryNetflix

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.

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

The same preoccupation in both: slasher

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

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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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House of Wax
2005 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 27%★ 5.5horror · thriller · mysteryMax

One thread runs through both: murder

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

Common ground: murder

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 2010s show

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

Horror built on tension, twice over

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

Twisty 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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