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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for a hidden home with a welcome that depends on following its rules. Jake discovers children who keep reliving a day to stay safe. Once the dangers outside reach them, the routine looks less like shelter and more like something they have to learn to leave behind. Some creature scenes are fairly nasty.
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Dave Made a Maze (2017)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
Pick this for an adult comedy with a handmade trap behind a familiar door. A cardboard fort is bigger inside than the apartment around it, and the people looking for Dave find moving passageways and a minotaur. The carnage looks like a craft project, which makes the gags funny even when the situation turns nasty.
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The Hole (2009)
5.7/10on IMDb
Released
Choose Joe Dante's 2009 film if you want the doorway itself to feel like a dare. Kids find a locked trapdoor in the basement, and what comes out of it resembles the fears they brought with them. It's a step up in fright from Coraline, especially when the film stops letting you see where the danger is.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Try this for a mirror that makes its visitors' own desires part of the scenery. A traveling show offers people a step into another world, but the man who runs it is settling a wager over souls. It has playful sights and the shifting dream rules of a much stranger, more adult fairy tale.
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
8.2/10on IMDb
Released
Save this for when you want the fairy-tale bargain to feel genuinely dangerous. Ofelia is told she could belong to an underground kingdom if she completes three tasks. The promise is seductive because of the house she has to return to. The violence in both worlds makes this a much tougher watch.
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Silent Hill (2006)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Save this for the hard-horror end of the list. A mother goes to a town that seems to know something about her child, but its streets refuse to let her search normally. Sirens and a sudden change in the town's appearance turn familiar routes into traps. The violence is far more graphic than Coraline's.
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