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Movies that feel likeMalignant (2021)

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

If you loved Malignant, the closest films we have are Scream (2022), Good Manners (2018) and Saw (2004). All three share Malignant'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 Next of Kin (1982).

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James Wandreadunsettlingtwistydreamlike
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Scream
2022 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 76%★ 6.3horror · mysteryParamount+

Both are working the same pair: murder, serial killer

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Marco Dutra
🍅 96%★ 6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Malignant does

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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Saw
2004 · dir. James Wan
🍅 50%★ 7.6horror · mystery · crimePeacock

The same hand behind both of them: James Wan

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%★ 6.5horror · mysteryRent or buy

Both lean on twists more than on horror

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than Malignant does

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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Next of Kin
1982 · dir. Tony Williams
🍅 100%★ 6.2horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: dreams

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 · dir. Adam Stein
🍅 92%★ 6.7horror · mysteryMax

The same preoccupation in both: gore

Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%★ 6.2horror

Both are James Wan's work, and they rhyme

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 45%★ 6.1horror · mysteryMax

One thread runs through both: monster

The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%★ 5.7horror · mysteryNetflix

Mystery with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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

Unsettling horror in both cases

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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Hellhole
2022 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%★ 5.8horror · mysteryNetflix

Mystery built on twists, twice over

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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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