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Movies that feel likeOuija: Origin of Evil (2016)

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.

If you loved Ouija: Origin of Evil, the closest films we have are Veronica (2017), Oculus (2014) and Annabelle: Creation (2017). All three share Ouija: Origin of Evil'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 Incantation (2022).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mike Flanagandreadunsettling
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Ouija (2014)

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

The same two preoccupations: supernatural, and possession

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%★ 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

Mike Flanagan working the same nerve twice

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%★ 6.5horrorMax

Both land dread and unease at once

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

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Doctor Sleep
2019 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 79%★ 7.3horror · fantasyParamount+

Both are Mike Flanagan's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Ouija: Origin of Evil does

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%★ 6.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%★ 6.3horrorNetflix

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%★ 5.3horrorPeacock

Horror built on unease, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

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

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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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The Nun
2018 · dir. Corin Hardy
🍅 24%★ 5.4horrorMax

Common ground: spirit

A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.

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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 34%★ 5.7horror · thrillerMax

Both are built on the same subject: spirit

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.

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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%★ 6horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Both work the same unease

A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

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In the Tall Grass
2019 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 36%★ 5.5horrorNetflix

The same horror instincts

After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

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