Movies like The Exorcist
The Exorcist is most extreme on THE THREAT — a supernatural threat at 008. 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 The Exorcist’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
The Omen
Richard Donner · 1976 · Film
Shares a supernatural threat.
93% shared signal
Alien
Ridley Scott · 1979 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
91% shared signal
The Thing
John Carpenter · 1982 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
83% shared signal
The Fly
David Cronenberg · 1986 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
79% shared signal
Candyman
Bernard Rose · 1992 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
78% shared signal
Poltergeist
Tobe Hooper · 1982 · Film
Shares a supernatural threat.
72% shared signal
Suspiria
Dario Argento · 1977 · Film
71% shared signal
Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero · 1968 · Film
69% shared signal
The Descent
Neil Marshall · 2005 · Film
69% shared signal
The Ring
Gore Verbinski · 2002 · Film
68% shared signal
Possession
Andrzej Zulawski · 1981 · Film
67% shared signal
Jaws
Steven Spielberg · 1975 · Film
66% shared signal
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