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Movies that feel likeThe Skeleton Key (2005)

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

If you loved The Skeleton Key, the closest films we have are Noroi: The Curse (2005), Good Manners (2018) and Next of Kin (1982). All three share The Skeleton Key'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 Resolution (2013).

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

Common ground: occult

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Skeleton Key

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

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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Marco Dutra
🍅 96%★ 6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Contemplative where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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Next of Kin
1982 · dir. Tony Williams
🍅 100%★ 6.2horror · mystery

The same two preoccupations: dreams, and haunted house

The difference: 23 years apart, and the 1980s show

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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

Unsettling and twisty in the same breath

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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Crimson Peak
2015 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%★ 6.5horror · mystery · romanceNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: haunted house

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Skeleton Key does

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

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Malignant
2021 · dir. James Wan
🍅 77%★ 6.2horror · mysteryRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: dreams

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 · dir. Luigi Bazzoni
★ 6.6thriller · mystery · drama

Both land tension and dream logic at once

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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Red Riding Hood
2011 · dir. Catherine Hardwicke
🍅 10%★ 5.4mystery · fantasy · horrorMax

Horror built on dread, twice over

Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.

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The Grudge
2004 · dir. Takashi Shimizu
🍅 41%★ 5.9horror · mystery · thrillerPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: nurse

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.

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

One thread runs through both: attic

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

Unsettling mystery in both cases

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

Twisty thriller, and it commits to that

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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