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Movies that feel like[REC]³ Genesis (2012)

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.

If you loved [REC]³ Genesis, the closest films we have are Veronica (2017), Incantation (2022) and Annabelle: Creation (2017). All three share [REC]³ Genesis' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Terrifier 2 (2022).

🍅 45% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paco Plazadreadunsettling
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If [REC]³ Genesis hit the spot, these will too

Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: [REC] (2007) · [REC]² (2009) · [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014)

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

Paco Plaza working the same nerve twice

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

Common ground in both: found footage and pseudo-documentary

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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Annabelle: Creation
2017 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 71%★ 6.5horrorMax

The same two preoccupations: demon, and demonic possession

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the doll maker's possessed creation—Annabelle.

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

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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

Both lean on dread more than on horror

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

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

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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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: zombie and virus

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than [REC]³ Genesis does

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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

Both are built on the same subject: demon

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 with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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

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

Both sit in the same unsettling register

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

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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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🍅 48%★ 4.4horror

Both are horror through and through

During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a deranged retired surgeon, who has a very disturbed vision.

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