Movies like The Shining
The Shining is most extreme on ERA BIAS — analog-era texture 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 The Shining’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
Don't Look Now
Nicolas Roeg · 1973 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
90% shared signal
Carrie
Brian De Palma · 1976 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
81% shared signal
Rosemary's Baby
Roman Polanski · 1968 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
81% shared signal
Jacob's Ladder
Adrian Lyne · 1990 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
79% shared signal
Session 9
Brad Anderson · 2001 · Film
Shares restraint over gore.
79% shared signal
Candyman
Bernard Rose · 1992 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
77% shared signal
Ringu
Hideo Nakata · 1998 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
75% shared signal
Halloween
John Carpenter · 1978 · Film
Shares restraint over gore.
73% shared signal
The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy · 1973 · Film
72% shared signal
The Ring
Gore Verbinski · 2002 · Film
72% shared signal
Possession
Andrzej Zulawski · 1981 · Film
72% shared signal
The Blair Witch Project
D. Myrick & E. Sánchez · 1999 · Film
71% shared signal
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