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Movies that feel likeIt Comes at Night (2017)

Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

If you loved It Comes at Night, the closest films we have are They Look Like People (2016), In the Mouth of Madness (1995) and Smile (2022). All three share It Comes at Night'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 Under the Shadow (2016).

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They Look Like People
2016 · dir. Perry Blackshear
🍅 92%★ 5.8drama · horror · mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: paranoia and fear

The difference: Takes it somewhere less bleak than It Comes at Night does

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 61%★ 7.1horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: paranoia

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

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Smile
2022 · dir. Parker Finn
🍅 79%★ 6.5horror · mysteryParamount+

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Trades the stillness of It Comes at Night for an angle of its own

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

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Fear Street: 1994
2021 · dir. Leigh Janiak
🍅 84%★ 6.2horror · mystery · dramaNetflix

Contemplative where it counts, twisty underneath

After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

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Suspiria
2018 · dir. Luca Guadagnino
🍅 65%★ 6.7horror · mystery · dramaPrime Video

Contemplative drama in both cases

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

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Midsommar
2019 · dir. Ari Aster
🍅 83%★ 7.1horror · drama · mysteryPrime VideoMax

Horror built on paranoia, twice over

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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The Thing
2011 · dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
🍅 34%★ 6.3horror · science fiction · mysteryPeacock

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than It Comes at Night does

When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller.

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Barbarian
2022 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 92%★ 7horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than It Comes at Night does

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

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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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 78%★ 6.2horror · mysteryPeacock

Drama built on dread, twice over

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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Under the Shadow
2016 · dir. Babak Anvari
🍅 99%★ 6.8drama · horror · warNetflix

Both lean on bleakness more than on drama

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

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

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

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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