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Movies that feel likeWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

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

If you loved What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the closest films we have are The Birds (1963), The Omen (1976) and Thesis (1996). All three share What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'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 Dead of Night (1945).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Aldrichdreadunsettlingtense
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If What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? hit the spot, these will too

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The Birds
1963 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%★ 7.6horror · thrillerPeacock

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.

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

Both lean on tension more than on horror

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

Common ground: murder

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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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Wait Until Dark
1967 · dir. Terence Young
🍅 96%★ 7.7thriller · crime · horror

The same preoccupation in both: murder

The difference: Leans further into crime

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.

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The Black Cat
1934 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 89%★ 6.9horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

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

Horror built on unease, twice over

The difference: Less tense, more its own thing

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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Jaws 2
1978 · dir. Jeannot Szwarc
🍅 56%★ 5.8horror · thrillerNetflixStarz

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

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Dracula
1958 · dir. Terence Fisher
🍅 89%★ 7.2horror

Both play horror straight

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · dir. Don Siegel
🍅 97%★ 7.7science fiction · horror · thrillerParamount+

Both work the same tension

The difference: Played as science fiction first

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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Dead of Night
1945 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%★ 7.5horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: insanity

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

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