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Movies that feel likeInsidious: Chapter 3 (2015)

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

If you loved Insidious: Chapter 3, the closest films we have are Evil Dead Rise (2023), Lake Mungo (2009) and [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014). All three share Insidious: Chapter 3'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 Creep (2014).

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Leigh Whannelldreadunsettlingtense
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Insidious (2011) · Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) · Insidious: The Last Key (2018) · Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)

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Evil Dead Rise
2023 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 85%★ 6.5horror · thrillerMax

Both are working the same pair: supernatural, demon

The difference: Reviewed even better

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%★ 6.2horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: supernatural

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%★ 5.3thriller · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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Halloween
2018 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 79%★ 6.5horror · thrillerPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Horror built on tension, twice over

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Crawl
2019 · dir. Alexandre Aja
🍅 84%★ 6.1horror · thrillerNetflixParamount+

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

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30 Days of Night
2007 · dir. David Slade
🍅 51%★ 6.6horror · thriller

Common ground: horror

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

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Countdown
2019 · dir. Justin Dec
🍅 26%★ 5.4horror · thrillerNetflix

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

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Friday the 13th
2009 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 26%★ 5.5horror · thrillerMax

Both are built on the same subject: halloween

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

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Saw VI
2009 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 39%★ 6.1horror · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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Don't Breathe 2
2021 · dir. Rodo Sayagues
★ 6thriller · horrorHulu

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Unsettling thriller in both cases

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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