Movies like Dread
If Dread's mix of experiment, primal fear and nightmare stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Dread's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Directed by Chuck Russell · 96 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: nightmare, psychopath · Also horror and thriller
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
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The Devil's Rejects
2005 · Directed by Rob Zombie · 111 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: psychopath, torture · Also drama and horror · From the same decade (2000s)
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
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Antichrist
2009 · Directed by Lars von Trier · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: torture, fear · Also drama and horror · From the same decade (2000s)
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
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Funny Games
2008 · Directed by Michael Haneke · 111 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: psychopath, torture · Also thriller and horror · From the same decade (2000s)
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men.
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Super Dark Times
2017 · Directed by Kevin Phillips · 103 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: nightmare, psychopath · Also drama and thriller
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and…
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Black Swan
2010 · Directed by Darren Aronofsky · 108 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: nightmare, fear · Also drama and thriller
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
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The Green Mile
1999 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 189 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: psychopath, torture
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments.
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The House That Jack Built
2018 · Directed by Lars von Trier · 152 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: psychopath · Also drama and horror
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for…
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 · Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez · 122 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: experiment · Also thriller and drama
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand.
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The Girl Next Door
2007 · Directed by Gregory Wilson · 91 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: torture · Also thriller and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth.
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Mother's Day
2010 · Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman · 112 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: torture · Also horror and thriller
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
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Saw III
2006 · Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman · 108 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: torture · Also horror and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished.