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Movies that feel likeThe Grudge (2004)

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

If you loved The Grudge, the closest films we have are Noroi: The Curse (2005), Resolution (2013) and Goodnight Mommy (2015). All three share The Grudge'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 Finders Keepers (2014).

🍅 41% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Takashi Shimizudreadunsettlingtwistytense
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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

One thread runs through both: curse

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 81%★ 6.4horror · thriller · mysteryRent or buy

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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Goodnight Mommy
2015 · dir. Severin Fiala
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Twisty where it counts, tense underneath

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%★ 6.2horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Horror built on dread, twice over

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Exhuma
2024 · dir. Jang Jae-hyun
🍅 93%★ 6.9mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: curse

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.

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Finders Keepers
2014 · dir. Alexander Yellen
🍅 98%★ 4.3mystery · thriller · horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Mystery with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A haunted doll teaches one little girl why children shouldn't play with undead things.

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House of Wax
2005 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 27%★ 5.5horror · thriller · mysteryMax

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

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Ghost Ship
2002 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 14%★ 5.6horror · mystery · thriller

Tense horror in both cases

After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

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Devil
2010 · dir. John Erick Dowdle
🍅 49%★ 6.3horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on dread more than on mystery

A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the Devil.

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Marrowbone
2017 · dir. Sergio G. Sánchez
🍅 49%★ 6.7thriller · horror · mystery

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.6mystery · horror · thrillerPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of twists, in both cases

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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The Whole Truth
2021 · dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
★ 5.2horror · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

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