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Movies that feel likeInsidious: The Last Key (2018)

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

If you loved Insidious: The Last Key, the closest films we have are Evil Dead Rise (2023), [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014) and Halloween (2018). All three share Insidious: The Last Key'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 The Pool (2018).

🍅 34% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adam Robiteldreadunsettlingtense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Insidious (2011) · Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013) · Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015) · 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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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%★ 5.3thriller · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%★ 5.2thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: spirit

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Insidious: The Last Key does

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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When Evil Lurks
2023 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · thrillerRent or buy

One thread runs through both: demon

When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.

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Escape Room
2019 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 51%★ 6.4horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Both are Adam Robitel's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Insidious: The Last Key does

Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.

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

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

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

Dread-soaked thriller 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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47 Meters Down
2017 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 53%★ 5.7horror · thrillerStarz

Both lean on unease more than on horror

Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.

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

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

Thriller built on tension, twice over

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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