Movies like Paranormal Activity
Paranormal Activity is most extreme on VISCERA — restraint over gore at 010. Everything below is a movie that lands near it on the same six axes, which is a different question from "what else is tagged horror". Ranked by distance, closest first.
That is Paranormal Activity’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
The Conjuring
James Wan · 2013 · Film
Shares a supernatural threat.
81% shared signal
Annabelle
John R. Leonetti · 2014 · Film
Shares restraint over gore.
79% shared signal
A Quiet Place
John Krasinski · 2018 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
78% shared signal
The Ring
Gore Verbinski · 2002 · Film
Shares a supernatural threat.
78% shared signal
Sinister
Scott Derrickson · 2012 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
77% shared signal
Lights Out
David F. Sandberg · 2016 · Film
Shares restraint over gore.
76% shared signal
The Babadook
Jennifer Kent · 2014 · Film
75% shared signal
Oculus
Mike Flanagan · 2013 · Film
75% shared signal
Ringu
Hideo Nakata · 1998 · Film
74% shared signal
The Blair Witch Project
D. Myrick & E. Sánchez · 1999 · Film
74% shared signal
The Nun
Corin Hardy · 2018 · Film
74% shared signal
It Follows
David Robert Mitchell · 2014 · Film
74% shared signal
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