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Movies that feel likePeeping Tom (1960)

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

If you loved Peeping Tom, the closest films we have are The Haunting (1963), Possession (1981) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). All three share Peeping Tom'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 Black Cat (1934).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Powelltensedreadunsettlingobsessivemelancholy
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If Peeping Tom hit the spot, these will too

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 88%★ 7.4horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the tension than Peeping Tom

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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Possession
1981 · dir. Andrzej Żuławski
🍅 87%★ 7.2horrorRent or buy

Common ground: obsession

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1980s show

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

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

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Don't Look Now
1973 · dir. Nicolas Roeg
🍅 93%★ 7.1thriller · drama · horror

Melancholy horror in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Peeping Tom does

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

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Night of the Living Dead
1968 · dir. George A. Romero
🍅 95%★ 7.8horrorMaxPeacock

Horror built on dread, twice over

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

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Obsession
2026 · dir. Curry Barker
🍅 93%★ 7.8horror · thrillerPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: obsession

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

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The Ninth Gate
1999 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 44%★ 6.7mystery · thriller · horror

Thriller with a pulse of obsession, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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

One thread runs through both: photography

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

The same preoccupation in both: serial killer

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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The Black Cat
1934 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 89%★ 6.9horror · thriller

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

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Dracula
1958 · dir. Terence Fisher
🍅 89%★ 7.2horror

The shared currency is dread

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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