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Movies that feel likeScream VI (2023)

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

If you loved Scream VI, the closest films we have are The Killer (2023), Martyrs (2008) and I Saw the Devil (2010). All three share Scream VI's tense and relentless feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Sadness (2021).

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpindreadunsettlingtensegrittydarkly funnyrelentless
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If Scream VI hit the spot, these will too

Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Scream (1996) · Scream 2 (1997) · Scream 3 (2000) · Scream 4 (2011) · Scream (2022)

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The Killer
2023 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 85%★ 6.7crime · thrillerNetflix

Both rooted in New York City

The difference: Trades the dread of Scream VI for an angle of its own

After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

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

One thread runs through both: revenge

The difference: Easier on the dark humor than Scream VI

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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I Saw the Devil
2010 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 83%★ 7.8thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: revenge

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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The Woman in Black
2012 · dir. James Watkins
🍅 66%★ 6.4drama · horror · thrillerParamount+

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Scream VI does

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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The Sadness
2021 · dir. Rob Jabbaz
🍅 88%★ 6.5horror · thrillerRent or buy

Tense and gritty in the same breath

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Cold Pursuit
2019 · dir. Hans Petter Moland
🍅 68%★ 6.2crime · action · dramaPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark comedy

The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.

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

Both are built on the same subject: mask

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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

Relentless horror in both cases

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

Common ground: murder

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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The Hunt
2020 · dir. Craig Zobel
🍅 57%★ 6.6action · thriller · horrorRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: dark comedy

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 19%★ 5.7horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

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

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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Revenge
2017 · dir. Coralie Fargeat
🍅 92%★ 6.4action · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Crime built on unease, twice over

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

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