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Movies that feel likeI Spit on Your Grave (2010)

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

If you loved I Spit on Your Grave, the closest films we have are Martyrs (2008), The Woman in Black (2012) and I Saw the Devil (2010). All three share I Spit on Your Grave's tense and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Kill List (2011).

🍅 32% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Steven R. Monroetensegrittydreadunsettlingrelentless
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Martyrs
2008 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 66%★ 7horror · drama · thriller

Common ground: revenge

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

The difference: Trades the grit of I Spit on Your Grave for an angle of its own

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

The same mix in both: tension, then dread

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than I Spit on Your Grave does

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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Scream VI
2023 · dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
🍅 77%★ 6.4horror · thriller · crimeNetflixParamount+

Gritty where it counts, unsettling underneath

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%★ 6.3horror · thriller · crimeRent or buy

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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Revenge
2017 · dir. Coralie Fargeat
🍅 92%★ 6.4action · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: rape

The difference: Sits closer to action than I Spit on Your Grave does

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

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Hannibal Rising
2007 · dir. Peter Webber
🍅 16%★ 6.1crime · thriller · horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Crime built on relentlessness, twice over

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

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

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

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

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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The Hills Have Eyes
2006 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 51%★ 6.4horror · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: rape

Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

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The Sadness
2021 · dir. Rob Jabbaz
🍅 88%★ 6.5horror · thrillerRent or buy

Horror with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Rings
2017 · dir. F. Javier Gutiérrez
🍅 7%★ 4.5horrorPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: rape and revenge

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

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