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2021 · Movie · R · your starting pointIf Malignant is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like Malignant, ranked
1. Scream at the Devil (2015)
James Wan's baroque visual storytelling and unreliable-narrator twist structure returns here, trapping you in a protagonist's fractured mind where supernatural horror and psychological dissolution become indistinguishable.
2. Smile (2022)
This film mirrors Malignant's exploration of how fragmented trauma manifests as impossible visions that blur the line between psychological breakdown and supernatural reality.
4. Inclusion Criteria (2017)
This Akçay Karaazmak thriller mines the same psychological horror territory as Malignant, weaponizing unreliable perception and buried trauma to blur the line between internal breakdown and external threat.
5. The Dread (2007)
Director James Wan's signature blend of supernatural body horror and psychological unraveling finds its match in this film's exploration of a fractured psyche's connection to a murderous force lurking within family trauma.
6. Threads Of Blue (2023)
Director James Wan's baroque visual storytelling and psychologically fractured protagonist unraveling a deeply personal trauma mirror the surreal, body-horror aesthetics and inherited psychological terror that drive this haunting mystery.
8. The Graveyard (1974)
Director James Wan's signature blend of visceral body horror and psychological unraveling finds its predecessor in this 1974 exploration of trauma manifesting as grotesque family pathology.
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