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Movies that feel likePoltergeist (2015)

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.

If you loved Poltergeist, the closest films we have are Evil Dead (2013), Terrifier 2 (2022) and Mama (2013). All three share Poltergeist'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 Veronica (2017).

🍅 29% Rotten Tomatoes★ 4.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Gil Kenandreadunsettling
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If Poltergeist hit the spot, these will too

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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

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

One thread runs through both: haunted house

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

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

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

Both lean on dread more than on horror

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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The Eye
2002 · dir. Oxide Pang
🍅 63%★ 6.6horror

Both work the same unease

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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

The same preoccupation in both: haunted house

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

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The Amityville Horror
2005 · dir. Andrew Douglas
🍅 23%★ 5.9horrorPrime Video

Horror in the same key

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%★ 6.1horrorPeacock

Cut from the same horror cloth

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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

Horror approached the same way

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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Pet Sematary
2019 · dir. Dennis Widmyer
🍅 58%★ 5.7horrorParamount+

Both working the same horror territory

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.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.7horror

The same horror instincts

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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