Movies Like The Conjuring

Looking for movies like The Conjuring? Here are 10 films with the same real-dread supernatural horror. We picked each title based on shared tone, themes, and emotional feel.

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   1. Insidious

   2010Horror

   After their son falls into an unexplained coma, a couple finds their home overrun by spirits and turns to a psychic who reveals the boy's spirit has wandered somewhere it should not. James Wan directs both this and The Conjuring, and Patrick Wilson stars as a worried father in each, so the craft and scares feel familiar. Insidious is stranger and more surreal, with a ghost-world mythology instead of a demonic case file.

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   2. Annabelle

   2014Horror

   A young couple expecting their first child is targeted after cultists attack their home, and a vintage doll becomes the focus of a terrifying presence. It expands on the cursed doll introduced in The Conjuring's opening and is part of the same universe. Without the Warrens at the center, it is a more standard haunted-object story, best for viewers invested in the larger franchise.

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   3. The Nun

   2018Horror

   A priest and a novice are sent by the Vatican to a remote Romanian abbey to investigate a nun's death and encounter the demonic presence called Valak. It traces the origins of a demon first glimpsed in The Conjuring 2, keeping the series' religious imagery. It relies more on gothic atmosphere and jump scares than the family-centered drama of The Conjuring.

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   4. Hereditary

   2018Horror

   After her secretive mother dies, Annie, played by Toni Collette, watches her family come apart as strange and terrible events reveal what was hidden in their past. Like The Conjuring, it centers on a family under siege by something supernatural in their own home. Ari Aster's film is far more disturbing and grief-driven, with no investigators coming to help and little relief from its dread.

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   5. The Autopsy of Jane Doe

   2016Horror

   Father-and-son coroners, played by Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch, examine the body of an unidentified woman found at a crime scene and uncover clues that grow more impossible. The steady buildup of dread and the idea of investigators facing something old and malevolent connect it to The Conjuring. It takes place almost entirely in one basement morgue, which makes it tighter, gorier, and more claustrophobic.

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   6. Lights Out

   2016Horror

   A young woman and her little brother confront a figure that only appears in the dark and seems tied to their mother's mental illness. Its family-in-crisis core and clever use of darkness for scares will be familiar to fans of The Conjuring. Directed by David F. Sandberg and produced by James Wan, it is shorter and built more tightly around one central gimmick.

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   7. A Quiet Place

   2018Horror

   A family lives in near silence on an isolated farm, because blind creatures hunt anything that makes a sound. Like The Conjuring, it is built around a loving family protecting their children in a rural house under threat. The danger here is creature-based rather than supernatural, and John Krasinski's film relies on tension and silence rather than ghosts and demons.

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   8. The Others

   2001Horror

   Nicole Kidman plays a mother living in a dark, isolated house on the island of Jersey with her two light-sensitive children, convinced something else is sharing their home. The slow-burning atmosphere and a mother protecting her children recall The Conjuring. It is more elegant and restrained, a classic ghost story built toward a revelation instead of big scares.

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   9. Paranormal Activity

   2007Horror

   A young couple sets up a camera in their house to record the strange occurrences happening at night, and the activity steadily escalates. Its focus on a haunting inside an ordinary home echoes The Conjuring. The found-footage approach makes it rawer and more minimal, with long, quiet shots instead of the polished filmmaking and investigators of The Conjuring.

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    10. Sinister

    2012Horror

    Ethan Hawke plays a true-crime writer who moves his family into a house where a murder took place and finds a box of home movies showing other killings. A family's new home becoming the site of supernatural terror ties it to The Conjuring. It is meaner and more unsettling, built around the writer's obsession rather than a team of investigators, and it offers little comfort.

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