IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Poltergeist (2015)
Poltergeist runs on claustrophobic tension, anxious dread, and kinetic urgency. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Amityville 3-D
1983
The Evil
1978
House
2008
Amityville: The Awakening
2017
The Haunted
1991
Amityville: Dollhouse
1996
Shaitaan
2024
The Stepfather
2009
Evil Dead
2013
Poltergeist III
1988
Ghost Game
2024
Amityville: The Evil Escapes
1989
Annabelle: Creation
2017
Witchtrap
1989
The Grudge
2019
Desperate Hours
1990
Child's Play
2019
Out of the Dark
2014
Poltergeist II: The Other Side
1986
The Darkness
2016
Nightwish
1989
The Cellar
2022
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
The Grudge 2
2006