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
Insidious: Out of the Further
2026
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