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Movies that feel likeSinister 2 (2015)

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

If you loved Sinister 2, the closest films we have are Veronica (2017), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) and Mama (2013). All three share Sinister 2'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 Incantation (2022).

🍅 14% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ciarán Foydreadunsettling
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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Both are working the same pair: nightmare, supernatural

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

Common ground: supernatural

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 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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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%★ 5.9horrorMax

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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

Unsettling horror in both cases

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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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%★ 4.9horrorHulu

The same preoccupation in both: haunted house

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

Both are built on the same subject: murder

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%★ 5.5horrorPeacock

One thread runs through both: murder

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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In the Tall Grass
2019 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 36%★ 5.5horrorNetflix

A streak of unease through both

After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

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

The same horror instincts

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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