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Movies that feel likeJaws 2 (1978)

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

If you loved Jaws 2, the closest films we have are The Omen (1976), Ring (1998) and Nightwatch (1994). All three share Jaws 2'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 Lake Mungo (2009).

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jeannot Szwarcdreadunsettlingtense
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Jaws (1975)

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The Omen
1976 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 76%★ 7.5horror · thrillerPeacock

Both land dread and unease at once

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

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Ring
1998 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 98%★ 7.2horror · thriller

Common ground: island

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%★ 7.1horror · thriller

Tense horror, and it commits to that

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%★ 7.4horror · thriller

Thriller built on dread, twice over

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · dir. Robert Aldrich
🍅 91%★ 8horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 67%★ 6.5thriller · horror

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 2000s show

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%★ 5.8thriller · horrorPrime Video

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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

Both are built on the same subject: shark attack

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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Halloween
1978 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 97%★ 7.7horror · thriller

Thriller built on unease, twice over

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

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

Both sit in the same tense register

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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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%★ 6.8drama · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Both know what they want from horror

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Jaws 2 does

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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

The thriller is handled with the same confidence

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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