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If you're a fan of the Insidious franchise then make sure you check out these similar horror movies to quench your thirst scary supernatural stories.

Afterdirector James Wan kickstarted one of the most profitable and well-known horror franchises of the modern era with his groundbreaking low-budget movieSaw, but before he began one of the others withThe Conjuring, he started a third series with the equally-popular supernatural chillerInsidious.

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If you're a fan of the movie and want to see something similar in the genre, any of these 10 horror movies should quench your thirst for a creepy atmosphere and ghostly scares.

Scott Derrickson's supernatural horror movie follows a writer who, after moving with his young family into a new house, discovers a box of 8mm home movies in the attic. Upon inspection, each one appears to be from a different home and depicts the gruesome murders of each house's family, with an eerie figure connecting all of them.

Sinister, much likeInsidious, is all about inducing dread by any means necessary, leading to all kinds of horrific frights and jumps throughout the movie.

One of the most surprising horrorhits of recent years, Mike Flanagan's prequel to the almost-completely forgotten 2014 Hasbro produced horror movieOuijademonstrates the director's Stanislavskian approach to maximumeffort no matter what the project.

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Set in the 1960s and focussing on the family drama of a widow and her two young daughters experiencing increased freedoms as women due to their circumstances,Origin of Evilnot only improves greatly upon its predecessor but actually enriches the story of that movie too.

Released on Netflix in 2017,The Ritualwas the feature-length debut of director David Bruckner, who had made a name for himself with horror movie fans with a number of highly-memorable segments in anthology movies over the course of thepreceding decade.

Demonstrating a lot of the same visual ingenuity thatJames Wan injected intoInsidious, this story follows a group of friends who become lost in a Swedish forest and begin to feel a malevolent presence haunting their dreams and stalking them through the trees.

Another Netflix movie, also directed by the prolific Mike Flanaganbut produced and released beforeOuija: Origin of Evildespite being eventually released several years after it,Before I Wakerevolves around a young boy whose dreams and nightmares manifest into reality as he sleeps.

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Fans ofInsidious' astral plane of "The Further" will no doubt enjoy this creative chiller for its otherworldly designs and emotional performances.

Daniel Radcliffe leads this classic haunted house fright-fest adapted fromSusan Hill's novel of the same name andInsidiousfans will surely notice the shared influence of theghostly imagery.

Radcliffe plays a young lawyer sent to a decaying gothic mansion to put affairs in order for its sale but quickly finds the local townspeople fear the secluded house for good reason.

Another very classically influenced ghost story,The Otherswas written, directed, and scored byAlejandro Amenbar and received significant critical acclaim and box office success for a horror movie back in 2001.

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Set in the usual type of isolated old English estate, the plot follows Nicole Kidman's single mother as she begins to suspect that the house is occupied by more than just her family and the servants.

An even more opulent take on thearchetypal English ghost story than evenThe Woman in BlackorThe Others, Guillermo del Toro directs this sumptuous and sweeping gothic drama set mostly at the titular manor.

Filled with the director's unceasing eye for detail and macabre designs,Crimson Peakfeatures a star-studded cast with a standout performance from Jessica Chastain.

Jessica Chastain again steals the show in this oddly ethereal supernatural horror movie as she plays a woman forced into a maternal role she had never seen for herself after the discovery of her boyfriend's nieces, who had been presumed dead and were found living ferally in an abandoned house in the woods.

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Adapted by director Andy Muschietti from his short film of the same name, and executive produced by Guillermo del Toro,Mamaslips more gracefully between drama and horror than most movies of its kind as familial bonds begin to form between the characters in the shadow of the children's imaginary guardian figure, who intrudes into their lives and reveals themselves as not so imaginary after all.

A remake of the 1982 Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg classic of the same name,Poltergeistshares a number of plot similarities toInsidious,no doubt as the original movie was one of the biggest influences on the supernatural horror movie subgenre.

ThePoltergeistfranchise in general shares the Insidiousfranchise's affinity for fighting back against the paranormal with force and the results are equal parts fun and frightening.

Andy Muschietti brought the horror genre to a wider audience than has been seen for quite some time with his massively popular first chapter in his adaptation of Stephen King's iconically complicated novel of the same name.

The movie follows a group of small-town Kids on Bikesas they become menaced by an otherwordly evil that typically manifests itself into the form of a man-eating clown called Pennywise. AnInsidiousfan is sure to love every twist, turn, and drop on this ghoulish rollercoaster experience.

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