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Movies that feel likeThe Evil Dead (1983)

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

If you loved The Evil Dead, the closest films we have are Poltergeist (1982), The Fog (1980) and Child's Play (1988). All three share The Evil Dead'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 Dracula (1958).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Sam Raimidreadunsettling
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If The Evil Dead hit the spot, these will too

Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Evil Dead II (1987) · Army of Darkness (1992)

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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%★ 7.3horrorMax

Both are built on the same subject: halloween

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 77%★ 6.8horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%★ 6.7horrorPrime Video

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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Drag Me to Hell
2009 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 92%★ 6.6horror · thrillerParamount+Peacock

Sam Raimi directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Evil Dead does

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 85%★ 7.4horrorNetflixPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%★ 7.5horrorPrime Video

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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The Exorcist
1973 · dir. William Friedkin
🍅 78%★ 8.1horrorMax

Common ground: demonic possession

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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Evil Dead
2013 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 63%★ 6.5horrorNetflixPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: necronomicon

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 2010s show

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

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Dracula
1958 · dir. Terence Fisher
🍅 89%★ 7.2horror

Both run unsettling where it counts

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

The horror is handled with the same confidence

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992 · dir. Francis Ford Coppola
🍅 69%★ 7.4romance · horror

The same horror instincts

Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.

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