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Movies that feel likeRings (2017)

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

If you loved Rings, the closest films we have are 1922 (2017), Oculus (2014) and Martyrs (2008). All three share Rings' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017).

🍅 7% Rotten Tomatoes★ 4.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. F. Javier Gutiérrezdreadunsettlingdreamlikerelentlessgritty
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Ring (2002) · The Ring Two (2005)

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1922
2017 · dir. Zak Hilditch
🍅 92%★ 6.2horror · crime · dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: hallucination

The difference: Reviewed even better

A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%★ 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

One thread runs through both: supernatural

The difference: Takes it somewhere less relentless than Rings does

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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Martyrs
2008 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 66%★ 7horror · drama · thriller

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Rings for an angle of its own

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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Doctor Sleep
2019 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 79%★ 7.3horror · fantasyParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Rings does

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%★ 6.9fantasy · horrorRent or buy

Dreamlike horror, and it commits to that

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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Death Note
2017 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 36%★ 4.5crime · fantasy · horrorNetflix

Common ground: death

Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.

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I Spit on Your Grave
2010 · dir. Steven R. Monroe
🍅 32%★ 6.2thriller · crime · horror

The same preoccupation in both: rape and revenge

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%★ 6.4horrorPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: hallucination

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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Hannibal Rising
2007 · dir. Peter Webber
🍅 16%★ 6.1crime · thriller · horrorPrime VideoPeacock

The same mix in both: relentlessness, then grit

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · dir. Samuel Bayer
🍅 14%★ 5.2horror · mystery · thrillerMax

Both lean on unease more than on horror

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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Ma
2019 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 55%★ 5.6horror · thrillerHuluPeacock

Both run relentless where it counts

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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