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Movies that feel likeThe Wailing (2016)

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

If you loved The Wailing, the closest films we have are Hellhole (2022), The Medium (2021) and Exhuma (2024). All three share The Wailing'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 Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018).

🍅 99% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Na Hong-jindreadunsettlingtwisty
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Hellhole
2022 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%★ 5.8horror · mysteryNetflix

Both are working the same pair: the investigation, possession

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

In a monastery cut off from the world, the monks run a clinic for the possessed. One day, a young policeman Marek comes to the convent. Posing as a clergyman, he penetrates monastic life and tries to explain the recent, mysterious disappearance of several tormented inmates. It turns out, however, that there is no way out of the monastery.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%★ 6.5horror · mysteryRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: shaman

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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

Common ground in both: exorcism and curse

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Wailing does

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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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · dir. Jung Bum-shik
🍅 92%★ 6.5horror · mysteryPrime Video

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 78%★ 6.2horror · mysteryPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: small town life

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%★ 5.5mystery · horror

Horror with a pulse of twists, in both cases

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 45%★ 6.1horror · mysteryMax

The same preoccupation in both: the investigation

The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

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Weapons
2025 · dir. Zach Cregger
🍅 93%★ 7.4horror · mysteryPrime VideoMax

Common ground: small town life

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

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The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 86%★ 6.8horror · mysteryParamount+

One thread runs through both: murder

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%★ 5.2horror · mysteryHulu

Same instincts, 5 years apart

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%★ 5.7horror · mysteryNetflix

Mystery built on dread, twice over

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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Fear Street: 1994
2021 · dir. Leigh Janiak
🍅 84%★ 6.2horror · mystery · dramaNetflix

Common ground: curse

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Wailing does

After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.

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