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Movies that feel likeThe Curse of La Llorona (2019)

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

If you loved The Curse of La Llorona, the closest films we have are The Borderlands (2014), Talk to Me (2023) and The Innkeepers (2012). All three share The Curse of La Llorona'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 The Eyes of My Mother (2016).

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Chavesdreadunsettlingmelancholy
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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%★ 5.8horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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Talk to Me
2023 · dir. Michael Philippou
★ 7.1horrorMax

Melancholy horror in both cases

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%★ 5.5horror · thrillerPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Curse of La Llorona does

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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The Eyes of My Mother
2016 · dir. Nicolas Pesce
🍅 78%★ 6.2drama · horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Curse of La Llorona does

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%★ 5.9horrorMax

Common ground in both: priest and spin off

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than The Curse of La Llorona

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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The Babadook
2014 · dir. Jennifer Kent
🍅 98%★ 6.8drama · horrorRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: single mother

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

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

The same hand behind both of them: Michael Chaves

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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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 37%★ 6.2horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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Pet Sematary
1989 · dir. Mary Lambert
🍅 55%★ 6.5horrorParamount+

Both run melancholy where it counts

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1980s show

After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

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As Above, So Below
2014 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 30%★ 6.3horror · thriller

Both sit in the same dread-soaked register

When a team of explorers venture into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

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Lights Out
2016 · dir. David F. Sandberg
🍅 74%★ 6.3horror · mystery

Common ground: brothers and sisters

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

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The Lodge
2020 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 75%★ 6horror · mystery

The shared currency is unease

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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