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Movies that feel likePet Sematary (2019)

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

If you loved Pet Sematary, the closest films we have are Terrifier (2018), Annabelle Comes Home (2019) and Veronica (2017). All three share Pet Sematary'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).

🍅 58% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dennis Widmyerdreadunsettling
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Terrifier
2018 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 63%★ 5.5horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Both land dread and unease at once

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%★ 5.9horrorMax

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: tragedy

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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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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.

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

The shared currency is unease

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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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%★ 4.9horrorHulu

Cut from the same horror cloth

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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

The horror is handled with the same confidence

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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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%★ 5horror

Common ground: zombie

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%★ 5.5horrorPeacock

Both are horror through and through

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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The Nun II
2023 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 51%★ 5.6horrorMax

The same horror instincts

In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.

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

Horror of the same temperament

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

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