IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Poltergeist (1982)
Poltergeist runs on anxious dread, tightly wound, and family dynamics. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Insidious
2011
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
1986
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
Poltergeist
2015
The Amityville Horror
1979
The Conjuring 2
2016
The Conjuring
2013
The Omen
1976
The Exorcist: Believer
2023
Amityville II: The Possession
1982
When the Lights Went Out
2012
Death Whisperer
2023
Mama
2013
Insidious: The Red Door
2023
The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025
Never Let Go
2024
The Bad Seed
1956
The Possession
2012
The Prodigy
2019
Lights Out
2016
The Cellar
2022
Signs
2002
Dust Bunny
2025
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
1973