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Movies that feel likeWait Until Dark (1967)

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

If you loved Wait Until Dark, the closest films we have are What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Kill List (2011) and Onibaba (1964). All three share Wait Until Dark'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 Seconds (1966).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Terence Youngtensegrittydreadunsettling
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If Wait Until Dark hit the spot, these will too

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? poster
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · dir. Robert Aldrich
🍅 91%★ 8horror · thriller

Common ground: murder

The difference: Easier on the grit than Wait Until Dark

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%★ 6.3horror · thriller · crimeRent or buy

Tense where it counts, gritty underneath

The difference: 44 years apart, and the 2010s show

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%★ 7.8horrorMax

Both are built on the same subject: murder

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%★ 7.1horror · thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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Green Room
2016 · dir. Jeremy Saulnier
🍅 90%★ 6.9horror · crime · thrillerNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: heroin

Members of a punk rock band and a tough young woman are forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.

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The Sadness
2021 · dir. Rob Jabbaz
🍅 88%★ 6.5horror · thrillerRent or buy

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

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Thriller: A Cruel Picture
1973 · dir. Bo Arne Vibenius
🍅 56%★ 6.4action · thriller · crime

Gritty crime in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to action than Wait Until Dark does

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%★ 5.8thriller · horrorPrime Video

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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The Girl Who Killed Her Parents
2021 · dir. Maurício Eça
★ 5.9crime · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Wait Until Dark does

Based on one of the most shocking and gruesome murder cases in Brazil, the film presents Daniel Cravinhos's point of view of the events that led to the death of Marísia and Manfred von Richthofen, his girlfriend’s parents.

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Seconds
1966 · dir. John Frankenheimer
🍅 79%★ 7.6science fiction · thriller · horror

Horror built on tension, twice over

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%★ 7.4horror · thriller

Crime with a pulse of dread, in both cases

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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The Omen
1976 · dir. Richard Donner
🍅 76%★ 7.5horror · thrillerPeacock

Unsettling thriller in both cases

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

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