10 Terrifying Horror Movies Like It Follows You Need To See – Screen Rant

If you like It Follows then make sure you check out these similar horror movies filled with slow-burning dread and creepy stalking killers.

Fans of the 2014 horror movieIt Followsare often drawn to the supernatural chiller because of its slowly building feeling of uncertainty and its oddly psychological story.

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For those wondering what else there in the genre that can live up to its scariest moments, here are 10 terrifying horror movies that are likeIt Follows in many ways.

After the global success of his Spider-Man trilogy, director Sam Raimi returned to his horror roots for this story of a woman cursed to be tormented by a demon before being dragged to Hell.

Though it isn't presented as an arthouse movie,Drag Me to Hellis still considered a cut above the rest by fans due to its unforgivingly grim premise, interesting subtext, and homaging of Jacques Tourneur's classic horror movieNight of the Demon.

Before the huge endeavor of adapting Stephen King's sequel novel ofThe Shininginto its own movie, director Mike Flanagan aced the similarly-Herculean task of adapting King's 1992 novelGerald's Gameinto an engagingor even just coherentcinematic experience.

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Somewhat a survival thriller in the vein of127 Hours,the plot follows a woman who becomes handcuffed to a bed with no hope of rescue but delves unflinchingly into the deepest parts of her psyche, particularly her anxieties regarding sexuality as well as their origins.

After the success ofIt Follows, director of photographyMike Gioulakis worked with director M. Night Shyamalan on his also hugely successful psychological thrillerSplit.

An effectively claustrophobic and creepy horror story, the distinct look of the movie gives it a memorable personality and the strong-willed characters keep the story feeling alive beyond just being a high-concept setup.

Robert Eggers emerged as one of the most exciting American filmmakers of the 21st century with his feature debutThe Witchin 2015 and its smartly-crafted, off-kilter, style easily distinguished it from the vast majority of other horror movies released at that time.

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The simple story follows a secluded family of settlers in 17th century New Englandthat feels a malevolent force stalking them at all times, the slow-burning dread always building to an effective crescendo of frights.

Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi alien invasion movie is one of the few horror movie experiences that could be considered even more leftfield thanThe Witchbut its horror is possibly more affecting as a result.

Scarlett Johansson gives an incredible performance in this immersively realyet hauntingly dreamlikestory about her maneating extraterrestrial who lures men to their slow and horrible deaths with the promise of a sexual encounter.Under the Skinreally does what it says and offers a fairly unique perspective on the prey and predator dynamic that is so often explored through the horror genre, as it is inIt Follows.

Karyn Kusama's unsettling drama sees a manreunite with his ex-wife at a dinner party, years after the death of their son, and the horrifically awkward conversation between the old friends, new acquaintances, and grief-stricken parents pales in comparison to the steady realization that the hostshave becomepart of a dangerous cult.

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Slow-burning anxiety abounds in this sneakily claustrophobic modern horror masterpiece andIt Followsfans won't mind the absence of the supernatural at all as the Invitation's reality is far scarier.

A Japanese horror movie classic, arguablytheJ-horror classic, Hideo Nakata's adaptation ofKoji Suzuki's novel quickly became an international sensation and one of the few Asian horror movies of that period to have a genuinely worthy Hollywood remake.

The story of a killer videotape that curses you to die 7 days after you've viewed it began a new wave of contemporary curse movies that saw the trappings and habits of modern life become imbued with a new sinister meaning, and it's safe to say thatIt Followsowes plenty to its plot and its ever-increasing feeling of impending, inescapable, doom; as do countless other movies.

This atmospheric Thai horror movie follows a couple who begin to realize that they're being stalked by a supernatural presence, not too dissimilar from the kind of ghosts seen in J-horror movies likeRingor Ju-On:The Grudge, but, as always, the real horror is the story at the heart of the reasons why the haunting is taking place.

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Shuttertook the world by storm in a similar fashion to its J-horror counterparts and spawned several remakes, including an American one, but nothing quite tops the creeping dread of the original.

John Carpenter's smartly simple masterpiece still holds up today as an unnerving movie experience and, asIt Followsdoes, it achieves it with very little blood or budget.

The decision to go with a William Shatner mask painted white over a clown mask for the killer perfectly exemplifiesHalloween's ability to get so much impact out of something so seemingly-small, creating one of the most iconic horror monsters ever with tools anyone could buy from a local store.

40 years after the original movie, Jamie Lee Curtis still got audiences engaged in her eternal struggle against the otherworldly force of Michael Myers.

Halloween2018 is a contemporary reboot of the franchise that definitely has more of a comedic edge than the original, but that's not really a bad thing when talking about a horror movie sequel, and brings the stalking terror of Carpenter's 'The Shape' to a new audience; complete with music from the man himself and his son, Cody.

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