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Hold Your Breath

Movies Like Hold Your Breath (2012)

Hold Your Breath is a 2012 horror, thriller film from Jared Cohn with a MovieMagicScore of 4.2/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Prison and Big House Bunny.

Horror Thriller

Prison poster

Prison

1987

After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.

Big House Bunny poster

Big House Bunny

1950

While attempting to evade a group of hunters, Bugs Bunny jumps into a rabbit hole and inadvertently tunnels into Sing Song prison, where the malevolent prison guard, Sam Schultz, assumes he's an inmate.

20,000 Years in Sing Sing poster

20,000 Years in Sing Sing

1932

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Ernest Goes to Jail poster

Ernest Goes to Jail

1990

Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up.

The Locker poster

The Locker

2004

A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long black hair soon shows up to kill them off one by one.

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Lemon Tree Passage

2014

An Australian urban legend comes screaming on the Ozploitation scene. It’s said that if you drive down the creepy road of Lemon Tree Passage, and witness a sudden flash of light in the trees, you'll be forever haunted by the tormented spirit of a man killed by thrill speeding teenagers. Wanting to put this old wives’ tale to the test, a car-load of non-believers take the supposedly cursed journey and do indeed see a strange manifestation. But it’s not the one of popular myth - this sudden possession of one of their number involves another altogether more shocking crime. That of a young girl raped and murdered on the same stretch of highway. As one urban legend trumps another, the scared passengers must sort out the facts of both cases before vengeful justice from beyond the grave can be meted out with moody atmosphere, ghostly thrills and supernatural suspense.

Dead Talents Society poster

Dead Talents Society

2024

When ghosts must compete to survive in the underworld by haunting the living, one unassuming young woman needs help creating a lasting performance while under the tutelage of a passionate agent and a washed-up diva.

The Ring poster

The Ring

2002

Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.

The Conjuring poster

The Conjuring

2013

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

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Insidious: Chapter 2

2013

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

House of Darkness poster

House of Darkness

2016

When Kelly and Brian move to a farmhouse in search of a quiet life, they begin to hear strange voices and experience violent urges.

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Haunter

2013

A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II poster

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II

1987

When Hamilton High’s Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge thirty years later.

Ezra poster

Ezra

2017

An urban couple Ranjan Mathew and Priya have just moved to Kochi when powers of the supernatural start to take over their lives. How they tide over the forces forms the story.

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J.D.'s Revenge

1976

Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.

Darling poster

Darling

2015

A young woman slowly goes crazy after taking a job as the caretaker for an ancient New York home.

Demon House poster

Demon House

2019

Mass hysteria breaks-out over an alleged demonic possession in an Indiana home. Zak Bagans then buys the house, sight unseen, over the phone. He and his crew soon become the next victims of the most documented case of demonic possession in US history.

The Doll poster

The Doll

2016

Anya and Daniel just moved to their new house in Bandung. Daniel brings home a doll from his workplace. Anya, who is a dollmaker, welcomes the doll happily to their house. They later learned that the doll belonged to a little girl named Uci, who died when she and her family were brutally murdered in a robbery. Strange things begin to happen.....

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Witchtrap

1989

A group of parapsychologists, as well as a skeptical cop, are terrorized by a Satanic ghost in a bed-and-breakfast.

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Something Creeping in the Dark

1971

A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Hold Your Breath?

The top films similar to Hold Your Breath by MovieMagicScore are Prison (5.7), Big House Bunny (6.9), 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (6.3). Each shares horror/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Hold Your Breath worth watching?

Hold Your Breath holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.2/10 from 85 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Hold Your Breath?

Hold Your Breath (2012) is a horror, thriller film directed by Jared Cohn, starring Katrina Bowden, Randy Wayne, Erin Marie Hogan.

Where can I find more recommendations like Hold Your Breath?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more horror recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Hold Your Breath

This ranked list pairs Hold Your Breath (2012), a horror and thriller film from Jared Cohn, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Katrina Bowden take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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