Movies like The Ring Virus (1999)
The best movies like The Ring Virus (1999) are Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and Rings (2005). If The Ring Virus hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedShutter (2004)7.3/10 from 1,484 votes
- NewestAttack 13 (2025)Released 2025
- In KoreanPhone (2002)Also in Korean
Ring (1998)
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPulse (2001)
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRings (2005)
Some time after the events of The Ring, a subculture of people voluntarily watch Samara Morgan's video and wait to see how close to the seven-day deadline they can get before showing it to the next person. They record everything they see and share their experiences on a secret website dedicated to the videotape. No one has ever recorded a day seven.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Eye 2 (2004)
Pregnant Joey teeters on the brink of madness after several fruitless suicide attempts. She's the unwilling recipient of an influx of shadowy images that haunt her pervasively. In an attempt to quell this disturbing phenomenon, she looks up with her secretive ex-lover Sam, who may be able to shed some light upon the mysterious twilight world descending upon Joey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPhone (2002)
Soon after getting a new phone, a woman notices strange things starting to happen. When she investigates, she discovers that everyone who has had her phone number before her has died suddenly and mysteriously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShutter (2004)
When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ghost (2004)
Min Ji-won is suffering from amnesia. Her memory slowly comes back, after she discovers that all her friends mysteriously drowned recently. She begins piecing together her past, revealing the event that caused her memory loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Eye (2002)
A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mimic (2017)
The mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods, but soon begins to wonder if she is even human.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Missed Call (2003)
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot thickens as the surviving characters pursue the answers to this mystery which could save their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Water (2002)
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloody Reunion (2006)
Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms. Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation. Since the end of her teaching career, Park has been residing in the countryside, suffering from an illness while an ex-student, the kind and pretty Mi-ja cares for her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMissing (2009)
Hyeon-jeong's sister is missing and she fears for the worst. Via her sister's cellphone, Hyeon-jeong learns that her sister stayed in a countryside vaillage. She goes to the village to find her sister and stops at the local police station for help. Because of the little evidence she has, the police refuse to offer help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Horror Stories 2 (2013)
In an insurance company, Yoon, who is an outsider, has a power to see people’s past and read their minds. Mr. Park, Yoon’s boss, assumes that she has some kind of special power, decides to test her ability. At very late night when everyone has gone home, Mr. Park brings Yoon to a storage room where there are full of case reports. Among them, Mr. Park picks three doubtful cases. He asks Yoon to tell him what exactly happened. Yoon, who senses some dark aura wandering around him, tells the story of each case. Every time Yoon finishes each case, the dark aura gets darker and bigger and Yoon tries to warn Mr. Park about it. Would Mr. Park able to escape from the dark aura?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Apt (2006)
A young woman's curiosity propels her to investigate a series of strange deaths in her neighborhood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisKiller Toon (2013)
A web-comic artist finds that a series of murders are occurring that have a disturbing resemblance to the images in her work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJu-on: The Grudge (2002)
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInto the Mirror (2003)
Woo Yeong-min retired from the police force after trying to save his partner and causing his death. After a series of mysterious deaths in the shopping mall in which his uncle has allowed him to work as a security guard prior to its reopening, he must face both his own fear of mirrors and the mystery surrounding the fire that closed down the mall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRing 0 (2000)
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarui Video (2023)
The video evidence of the murder, which is especially brutal and graphic, that shouldn't be released to the public; a reporter who has access to the prosecutor's office hears about a cursed tape in the video archive and begins reporting on it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Horror Stories (2012)
A teenager is abducted and forced to tell the scariest tales she knows, leading to this anthology of four stories: a brother and sister are under siege while home alone; a killer escapes police custody mid-flight; step-sisters take plastic surgery to nightmarishly macabre extremes; a paramedic and mother standoff over her infected young daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Death Bell (2008)
In a prep-class for year-end exams, a sadistic killer puts the students through mind-games in order to save each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Uninvited (2003)
An engaged interior designer sees two small girls on the subway train that die there. He sees them again in his apartment. A woman he meets can also see them. He talks to her about his forgotten childhood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisNoroi: The Curse (2005)
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Grudge 2 (2006)
A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo, a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong, and strange things begin happening in a Chicago apartment building.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnd of the Line (2007)
Karen, a young psychiatric nurse, boards the last subway train of the night only to have it stop in the middle of the tunnel. Suddenly, her nightmare begins: a mysterious cult has decided that it's the end of the world and the only way to save the souls of the living is to kill them in cold blood. As those around her are brutally murdered, Karen and a handful of survivors must face the homicidal cult, supernatural forces, and their own fears of Armageddon in order to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAttack 13 (2025)
Bussaba, a volleyball player who enjoyed bullying others, was found dead by hanging in a gym, causing chaos and horror among other team members.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Yoga (2009)
After being replaced by a younger coworker, TV host Hyo-jeong enrolls in an intensive yoga course that has serious consequences for anyone who fails to follow its rules.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Ju-on: The Grudge 2 (2003)
When the cast and crew of a paranormal TV reality program decide to shoot in the house of the original Saeki hauntings, a series of strange events unfold at the location.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like this0.0MHz (2019)
The members of a supernatural exploration club called 0.0MHz explores a haunted house to prove the existence of frequencies that attract ghosts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Ring Virus?
The closest matches to The Ring Virus are Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and Rings (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Ring Virus?
People who watched The Ring Virus most often go on to Ring (1998), Pulse (2001) and Rings (2005).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Ring Virus?
Shutter (2004), rated 7.3/10 by 1,484 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Ring Virus?
Attack 13 (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like The Ring Virus?
Yes: Phone (2002), The Ghost (2004) and The Mimic (2017).
How are movies similar to The Ring Virus chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Ring Virus, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.