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Movies that feel likeThe Strangers (2008)

After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.

If you loved The Strangers, the closest films we have are Child's Play (1988), Triangle (2009) and Terrifier 2 (2022). All three share The Strangers' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016).

🍅 50% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Bryan Bertinodreadunsettling
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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%★ 6.7horrorPrime Video

Common ground in both: murder and serial killer

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

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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Triangle
2009 · dir. Christopher Smith
🍅 78%★ 6.9horrorPrime VideoPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong.

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

One thread runs through both: slasher

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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X
2022 · dir. Ti West
🍅 94%★ 6.5horrorPrime VideoMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: serial killer

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.

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

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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 Eye
2002 · dir. Oxide Pang
🍅 63%★ 6.6horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 41%★ 5.8horrorMax

Common ground: slasher

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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Halloween
2007 · dir. Rob Zombie
🍅 28%★ 6.1horrorPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: mask

The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.

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

Horror built on unease, twice over

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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The Amityville Horror
2005 · dir. Andrew Douglas
🍅 23%★ 5.9horrorPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Dead Silence
2007 · dir. James Wan
🍅 22%★ 6.2horror

The shared currency is unease

Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.

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

Both know what they want from horror

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

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