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Movies that feel like Army of Darkness (1992)

If you loved Army of Darkness, the closest films we have are Death Becomes Her (1992), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) and Gremlins (1984). All three share Army of Darkness' dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

πŸ… 68% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Sam Raimidreamlikedreadunsettlingwittyplayful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Evil Dead (1982) Β· Evil Dead II (1987)

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Death Becomes Her
1992 Β· dir. Robert Zemeckis
β˜… 6.7comedy Β· fantasy Β· horror

Dreamlike and dread-soaked in the same breath

Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancΓ©. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.

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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990 Β· dir. Joe Dante
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.5comedy Β· horror Β· fantasy

Unsettling where it counts, witty underneath

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!

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Gremlins
1984 Β· dir. Joe Dante
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.3fantasy Β· horror Β· comedy

Playful fantasy, and it commits to that

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

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The Witches
1990 Β· dir. Nicolas Roeg
πŸ… 94%β˜… 6.8fantasy Β· family Β· horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: witch

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.

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Monster House
2006 Β· dir. Gil Kenan
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.7animation Β· comedy Β· family

Both lean on dream logic more than on horror

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Army of Darkness does

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 Β· dir. Robert Zemeckis
β˜… 5.4comedy Β· fantasy Β· family

One thread runs through both: witch

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

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Krampus
2015 Β· dir. Michael Dougherty
πŸ… 67%β˜… 6.2horror Β· comedy Β· fantasy

Dread-soaked comedy in both cases

When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.

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Beetlejuice
1988 Β· dir. Tim Burton
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.4fantasy Β· comedy

The same preoccupation in both: skeleton

The difference: Missing the unease of Army of Darkness

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

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Fright Night
1985 Β· dir. Tom Holland
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

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Extra Ordinary
2019 Β· dir. Mike Ahern
πŸ… 98%β˜… 6.4fantasy Β· comedy Β· horror

Fantasy built on wit, twice over

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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Anna and the Apocalypse
2018 Β· dir. John McPhail
πŸ… 77%β˜… 6.1horror Β· comedy Β· fantasy

Both lean on play more than on comedy

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Havenβ€”at Christmasβ€”forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival. In a desperate race to reach their loved ones, they soon learn that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

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Tale of Tales
2015 Β· dir. Matteo Garrone
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.4romance Β· fantasy Β· horror

Both are built on the same subject: castle

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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