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Movies that feel likeThe Nun II (2023)

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.

If you loved The Nun II, the closest films we have are Terrifier 2 (2022), Annabelle Comes Home (2019) and Incantation (2022). All three share The Nun II'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 Veronica (2017).

🍅 51% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Chavesdreadunsettling
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Nun (2018)

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Terrifier 2
2022 · dir. Damien Leone
🍅 88%★ 6horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Common ground: halloween

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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

Both are built on the same subject: priest

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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Incantation
2022 · dir. Kevin Ko
🍅 79%★ 6.3horrorNetflix

Both land dread and unease at once

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Both lean on unease more than on horror

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance 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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The Conjuring 2
2016 · dir. James Wan
🍅 80%★ 7.3horrorMax

Common ground in both: demon and demonic possession

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

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The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 26%★ 5.3horrorMax

Michael Chaves working the same nerve twice

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.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%★ 5horror

The same preoccupation in both: demon

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Halloween Kills
2021 · dir. David Gordon Green
🍅 38%★ 5.5horrorPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

Michael manages to free himself from Laurie Strode's trap to resume his ritual bloodbath. As she fights for her life from injuries from their last encounter, she inspires her daughter Karen, her granddaughter Allyson, and all of Haddonfield to rise up against the unstoppable monster.

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In the Tall Grass
2019 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 36%★ 5.5horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

After hearing a child screaming for help from the green depths of a vast field of tall grass, Becky, a pregnant woman, and Cal, her brother, park their car near a mysterious abandoned church and enter the field, discovering that they are not alone and, for some reason, they are unable to escape a completely inextricable vegetable labyrinth.

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Sinister 2
2015 · dir. Ciarán Foy
🍅 14%★ 5.3horrorPeacock

The shared currency is unease

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

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.7horror

Both play horror straight

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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