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Movies that feel likeParanormal Activity 2 (2010)

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

If you loved Paranormal Activity 2, the closest films we have are Final Destination 5 (2011), The Medium (2021) and Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018). All three share Paranormal Activity 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 The Wailing (2016).

🍅 58% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tod Williamsdreadunsettlingtwisty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Paranormal Activity (2009) · Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)

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Final Destination 5
2011 · dir. Steven Quale
🍅 64%★ 5.9horror · mysteryMax

Common ground: supernatural horror

Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was never supposed to survive, and, in a terrifying race against time, the ill-fated group frantically tries to discover a way to escape Death’s sinister agenda.

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

Two things both keep coming back to: supernatural and found footage

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Both are built on the same subject: found footage

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

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

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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

Both lean on twists more than on horror

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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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%★ 5.2horror · mysteryHulu

Mystery built on dread, twice over

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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

Horror with a pulse of unease, 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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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 45%★ 6.1horror · mysteryMax

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

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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Devil
2010 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 49%★ 6.3horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: supernatural horror

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Paranormal Activity 2 does

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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The Wailing
2016 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 99%★ 7.4horror · mystery

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · dir. Daniel Myrick
🍅 86%★ 6.5horror · mysteryMax

One thread runs through both: halloween

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

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