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Movies that feel likePearl (2022)

Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.

If you loved Pearl, the closest films we have are The Innkeepers (2012), The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and Talk to Me (2023). All three share Pearl'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 Borderlands (2014).

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%★ 5.5horror · thrillerPrime Video

Ti West working the same nerve twice

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Pearl

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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The Eyes of My Mother
2016 · dir. Nicolas Pesce
🍅 78%★ 6.2drama · horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than Pearl does

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

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Talk to Me
2023 · dir. Michael Philippou
★ 7.1horrorMax

Melancholy horror in both cases

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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The Babadook
2014 · dir. Jennifer Kent
🍅 98%★ 6.8drama · horrorRent or buy

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%★ 5.8horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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Lamb
2021 · dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson
🍅 86%★ 6.3drama · fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Drama built on unease, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Pearl does

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

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The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 26%★ 5.3horrorMax

Horror with a pulse of melancholy, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 37%★ 6.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: murder

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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The Hunt
2020 · dir. Craig Zobel
🍅 57%★ 6.6action · thriller · horrorRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

The difference: Leans harder into action than Pearl does

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%★ 6.5drama · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Gerald's Game
2017 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 91%★ 6.5horror · thriller · dramaNetflix

Common ground: childhood trauma

When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

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The Substance
2024 · dir. Coralie Fargeat
🍅 89%★ 7.2horror · science fictionHulu

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.

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