Movies Like Blink Twice

If you loved Blink Twice (2024) for the slowly dawning horror beneath a sun-soaked paradise, Zoe Kravitz's sharp directorial debut, and the chilling revelation of what's really happening on the island, these 10 movies deliver a similar experience. We picked each one based on shared tone, themes, and emotional feel — not just surface-level genre tags.

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   1. Get Out

   2017 Horror

   Get Out follows a young Black photographer on a weekend visit to his white girlfriend's family estate, where the hosts' warmth starts to feel rehearsed and wrong. Like Blink Twice, it builds horror out of politeness, letting the guest sense danger long before he can name it, and both films treat privilege as the real monster. Jordan Peele's film is more tightly plotted as a thriller, while Blink Twice stays hazier and more dreamlike for longer.

   Where to watch Get Out
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   2. Midsommar

   2019 Horror

   Midsommar sends a grieving young woman and her distant boyfriend to a remote Swedish midsummer festival that turns out to have deadly traditions. The link to Blink Twice is horror staged in bright daylight, where beauty, flowers, and smiling hosts mask what is really going on. Ari Aster's film is longer, stranger, and far more ritualistic, and its focus is a crumbling relationship rather than a single predatory host.

   Where to watch Midsommar
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   3. The Menu

   2022 Thriller

   The Menu traps a group of wealthy diners on an island restaurant where a celebrity chef has planned an evening they will not forget. Blink Twice fans will recognize the setup: an exclusive invitation, a charismatic host in total control, and guests who realize too late that they cannot leave. This one plays more as pitch-black satire of foodie culture and class, with Ralph Fiennes as the chef, and it is funnier and more theatrical.

   Where to watch The Menu
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   4. Saltburn

   2023 Thriller

   In Saltburn, an Oxford student is invited to spend a summer at a classmate's aristocratic country estate and becomes consumed by the family and their world. It pairs well with Blink Twice for its seductive, sun-drenched portrait of wealth that hides something rotten underneath. The difference is in who holds the power: Emerald Fennell's film is told from the outsider's obsessive point of view, and it goes for provocation and dark comedy over slow-building dread.

   Where to watch Saltburn
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   5. Ready or Not

   2019 Horror

   Ready or Not follows a new bride whose wealthy in-laws insist on a wedding-night game of hide-and-seek, which turns out to be a hunt with her as the prey. Like Blink Twice, it pits one woman against a rich, closed circle that has rigged everything in its favor. It is far more openly comic and gory, a splatter romp rather than a slow reveal, but it shares the same satisfying fury when she fights back.

   Where to watch Ready or Not
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   6. Old

   2021 Thriller

   Old strands a group of vacationers on a secluded beach near a luxury resort, where they begin aging at an impossible rate. M. Night Shyamalan's thriller turns a tropical getaway into a trap, which is exactly the paradise-gone-wrong feeling Blink Twice trades on. It is more of a high-concept puzzle with a twisty explanation, and less concerned with power and gender, but the creeping sense that the trip was never what it seemed is very similar.

   Where to watch Old
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   7. Glass Onion

   2022 Mystery

   Glass Onion gathers a group of old friends on a tech billionaire's private Greek island for a murder-mystery weekend that turns into a real investigation. The overlap with Blink Twice is striking: a rich, attention-hungry host, an island retreat, and guests whose loyalty is bought. Rian Johnson's film is a playful whodunit with Daniel Craig's detective Benoit Blanc, so expect laughs and clue-hunting instead of horror, though it shares a deep distrust of tech moguls.

   Where to watch Glass Onion
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   8. Promising Young Woman

   2020 Thriller

   Promising Young Woman follows a former medical student who spends her nights confronting men who prey on women they think are too drunk to say no. It connects to Blink Twice through its anger at men who abuse power and the people who protect them, and through a lead who turns the tables. Emerald Fennell's film is more of a revenge drama with a candy-colored surface, and it is more grounded in everyday settings than an island fantasy.

   Where to watch Promising Young Woman
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   9. Ex Machina

   2014 Sci-Fi

   Ex Machina centers on a young programmer invited to the isolated estate of his reclusive tech CEO boss to test a humanoid AI. Blink Twice viewers will see the parallel immediately: a brilliant, controlling billionaire, a remote retreat, and a guest who slowly realizes how much is being manipulated. Alex Garland's film is cooler and more cerebral, built around conversations and ideas about consciousness rather than a party, and it is one of the sharpest films about control.

   Where to watch Ex Machina
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    10. Fresh

    2022 Horror

    Fresh starts as a modern dating story, as a woman meets a charming guy at a grocery store and agrees to a weekend away, before revealing his horrifying secret. Like Blink Twice, it is about a seemingly perfect man whose charisma hides predatory intentions toward women. It is smaller in scale and much more graphic and darkly comic, a grisly two-hander rather than an ensemble on an island, so it suits viewers who want the premise pushed further.

    Where to watch Fresh