Movies like The Ring
The Ring is most extreme on TONE — a bleak, unforgiving tone at 014. 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 Ring’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
Ringu
Hideo Nakata · 1998 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
90% shared signal
The Witch
Robert Eggers · 2015 · Film
Shares a supernatural threat.
81% shared signal
It Follows
David Robert Mitchell · 2014 · Film
Shares restraint over gore.
81% shared signal
Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson · 2008 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
81% shared signal
The Babadook
Jennifer Kent · 2014 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
81% shared signal
Oculus
Mike Flanagan · 2013 · Film
Shares a supernatural threat.
79% shared signal
Paranormal Activity
Oren Peli · 2007 · Film
Shares restraint over gore.
78% shared signal
Sinister
Scott Derrickson · 2012 · Film
78% shared signal
Candyman
Bernard Rose · 1992 · Film
78% shared signal
A Dark Song
Liam Gavin · 2016 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
75% shared signal
Hereditary
Ari Aster · 2018 · Film
75% shared signal
Alien
Ridley Scott · 1979 · Film
74% shared signal
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