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10 Best Movies Like The Gates

If you loved The Gates, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Play Dead

Play Dead

2022★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gates for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she...

#2
The Haunting of Alcatraz

The Haunting of Alcatraz

2020★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gates for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison i...

#3
Strange Darling

Strange Darling

2024★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gates for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree....

#4
Nightmare Cinema

Nightmare Cinema

2018★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gates for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen b...

#5
Play Dead

Play Dead

2025★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gates for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above....

#6
Blood Punch

Blood Punch

2014★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gates for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabi...

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