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Movies that feel likeSalò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

If you loved Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, the closest films we have are Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and Audition (2000). All three share Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom'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 Wait Until Dark (1967).

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Pier Paolo Pasolinidreadunsettlingcontemplativegritty
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If Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom hit the spot, these will too

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Cannibal Holocaust
1980 · dir. Ruggero Deodato
🍅 65%★ 5.7horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Goes its own way on the stillness

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%★ 7.3drama · horrorPrime Video

Both lean on stillness more than on horror

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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Audition
2000 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 81%★ 7.1horror · drama

One thread runs through both: sadism

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

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Bone Tomahawk
2015 · dir. S. Craig Zahler
🍅 91%★ 7.1drama · horror · westernRent or buy

Drama built on grit, twice over

The difference: Leans further into western

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 77%★ 6.8horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%★ 7.5horrorPrime Video

Drama with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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Thriller: A Cruel Picture
1973 · dir. Bo Arne Vibenius
🍅 56%★ 6.4action · thriller · crime

Contemplative horror in both cases

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

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Saw 3D
2010 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 9%★ 5.5horror · crime

The same preoccupation in both: sadism

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.

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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror

Both lean on dread more than on drama

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Both sit in the same unsettling register

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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Wait Until Dark
1967 · dir. Terence Young
🍅 96%★ 7.7thriller · crime · horror

Both run gritty where it counts

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 20%★ 6.7crime · drama · horror

The shared currency is stillness

When a young girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

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