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Movies Like Shadow of the Unnamable

If you liked Shadow of the Unnamable (2013), a movie directed by Sascha Alexander Renninger, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1I Bury the Living

    I Bury the Living (1958)

    ★ 6.2/10

    The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he risks his sanity to play God once…

  2. 2Pet Sematary

    Pet Sematary (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10

    After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

  3. 3The Haunting in Connecticut

    The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred…

  4. 4The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane

    The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

    ★ 7/10

    13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams…

  5. 5The Serpent and the Rainbow

    The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the…

  6. 6Arsenic and Old Lace

    Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts…

  7. 7Burnt Offerings

    Burnt Offerings (1976)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.

  8. 8Beloved

    Beloved (1998)

    ★ 5.8/10

    After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to…

  9. 9The Devil All the Time

    The Devil All the Time (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

  10. 10Ghost Story

    Ghost Story (1981)

    ★ 6/10

    Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of…

  11. 11A Passage to India

    A Passage to India (1984)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

  12. 12Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

    Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

    ★ 6.5/10

    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…

  13. 13The Exorcist

    The Exorcist (1973)

    ★ 7.8/10

    When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

  14. 14Willard

    Willard (1971)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However…

  15. 15House of Usher

    House of Usher (1960)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop…

  16. 16The Cider House Rules

    The Cider House Rules (1999)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer…

  17. 17Affliction

    Affliction (1998)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

  18. 18Macabre

    Macabre (1958)

    ★ 6/10

    After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.

  19. 19The Fall of the House of Usher

    The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her nameless traveller fiancé…

  20. 20Fatima

    Fatima (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World…

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