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Movies that feel likeThe Ninth Gate (1999)

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

If you loved The Ninth Gate, the closest films we have are [REC] (2007), 1408 (2007) and The Others (2001). All three share The Ninth Gate's twisty and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Innkeepers (2012).

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[REC]
2007 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 90%★ 7.4horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: obsession

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

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1408
2007 · dir. Mikael Håfström
🍅 80%★ 6.8horror · mystery

The same city underneath both: New York City

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Ninth Gate does

A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

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The Others
2001 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%★ 7.6horror · mystery · thriller

Twisty where it counts, tense underneath

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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Shutter
2004 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
★ 7horror · mystery · thriller

One thread runs through both: suicide

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

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Peeping Tom
1960 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: obsession

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: hotel

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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8MM
1999 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 23%★ 6.6thriller · crime · mystery

Common ground: the investigation

The difference: Sits closer to crime than The Ninth Gate does

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

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From Hell
2001 · dir. Albert Hughes
🍅 57%★ 6.7horror · mystery · thrillerHulu

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

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The Boy
2016 · dir. William Brent Bell
🍅 31%★ 6horror · mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: suicide

A young American woman takes a job as a nanny in a remote English village, soon discovering that the family's eight-year-old son is a life-sized doll that comes with a list of strict rules.

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The Number 23
2007 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 7%★ 6.4thriller · mystery · crime

Mystery with a pulse of obsession, in both cases

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
★ 6.8horror · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: the investigation

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

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Smile 2
2024 · dir. Parker Finn
🍅 86%★ 6.7horror · mysteryNetflixPrime Video

Melancholy horror, and it commits to that

About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.

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