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Movies that feel likeTerrifier (2018)

A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.

If you loved Terrifier, the closest films we have are Annabelle Comes Home (2019), Veronica (2017) and Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016). All three share Terrifier'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).

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Damien Leonedreadunsettling
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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%★ 5.9horrorMax

The same preoccupation in both: halloween

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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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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X
2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 94%★ 6.5horrorPrime VideoMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: slasher

The difference: Reviewed even better

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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

Horror built on unease, twice over

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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

One thread runs through both: halloween

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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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%★ 6.1horrorPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: maniac

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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

A streak of unease through both

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

Both working the same horror territory

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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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 41%★ 5.8horrorMax

Common ground: slasher

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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The Strangers
2008 · dir. Bryan Bertino
🍅 50%★ 6.1horrorNetflixPeacock

Both play horror straight

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

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