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Movies that feel likeThe Amityville Horror (2005)

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.

If you loved The Amityville Horror, the closest films we have are The Eye (2002), Veronica (2017) and Triangle (2009). All three share The Amityville Horror'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 Terrifier 2 (2022).

πŸ… 23% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Andrew Douglasdreadunsettling
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix Β· Amazon Prime Video Β· Hulu

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The Eye
2002 Β· dir. Oxide Pang
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.6horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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Veronica
2017 Β· dir. Paco Plaza
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.2horrorNetflix

Two things both keep coming back to: a true story and family

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a sΓ©ance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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Triangle
2009 Β· dir. Christopher Smith
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: murder

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

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Terrifier 2
2022 Β· dir. Damien Leone
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6horrorPrime VideoPeacock

One thread runs through both: halloween

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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Mama
2013 Β· dir. Andy Muschietti
πŸ… 63%β˜… 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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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 Β· dir. Mike Flanagan
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.2horrorNetflix

Both lean on dread more than on horror

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their sΓ©ance 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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Poltergeist
2015 Β· dir. Gil Kenan
πŸ… 29%β˜… 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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Halloween
2007 Β· dir. Rob Zombie
πŸ… 28%β˜… 6.1horrorPeacock

Common ground: halloween

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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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 Β· dir. Ronny Yu
πŸ… 41%β˜… 5.8horrorMax

The same preoccupation in both: murder

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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Sinister 2
2015 Β· dir. CiarΓ‘n Foy
πŸ… 14%β˜… 5.3horrorPeacock

Unsettling horror in both cases

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

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The Strangers
2008 Β· dir. Bryan Bertino
πŸ… 50%β˜… 6.1horrorNetflixPeacock

Horror built on dread, twice over

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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Dead Silence
2007 Β· dir. James Wan
πŸ… 22%β˜… 6.2horror

A streak of unease through both

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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