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Movies that feel likeSpeak No Evil (2024)

When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

If you loved Speak No Evil, the closest films we have are The Invitation (2016), Barbarian (2022) and Hostel (2006). All three share Speak No Evil'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 Speak No Evil (2022).

🍅 83% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James Watkinsdreadunsettlingtenseparanoid
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If Speak No Evil hit the spot, these will too

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The Invitation
2016 · dir. Karyn Kusama
🍅 90%★ 6.6thriller · horrorPeacock

One thread runs through both: paranoia

Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.

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Barbarian
2022 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 92%★ 7horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Both are built on the same subject: paranoia

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Speak No Evil does

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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Hostel
2006 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 60%★ 5.9horrorPeacock

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Speak No Evil does

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

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When Evil Lurks
2023 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · thrillerRent or buy

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.

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

James Watkins directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Speak No Evil 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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Heretic
2024 · dir. Scott Beck
🍅 89%★ 7thriller · horrorMaxHulu

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

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The Pope's Exorcist
2023 · dir. Julius Avery
🍅 50%★ 6.1horror · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Horror built on paranoia, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026 · dir. Jacob Chase
🍅 57%★ 6.2horror · thrillerRent or buy

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
★ 5.9horror · thrillerNetflix

Both lean on tension more than on horror

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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10 Cloverfield Lane
2016 · dir. Dan Trachtenberg
🍅 91%★ 7.2thriller · science fiction · dramaParamount+Peacock

Paranoid thriller, and it commits to that

After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.

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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%★ 6.7horror · thriller · dramaRent or buy

The shared currency is dread

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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Don't Breathe 2
2021 · dir. Rodo Sayagues
★ 6thriller · horrorHulu

Both work the same unease

The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the Blind Man to leave his safe haven to save her.

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