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Movies that feel likeBlade (1998)

The Daywalker known as "Blade" - a half-vampire, half-mortal man - becomes the protector of humanity against an underground army of vampires.

If you loved Blade, the closest films we have are Revenge (2017), I Saw the Devil (2010) and The Woman in Black (2012). All three share Blade's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Mask of Zorro (1998).

πŸ… 59% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Stephen Norringtondreadunsettlingkineticrelentless
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix Β· HBO Max Β· Amazon Prime Video

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If Blade hit the spot, these will too

Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Blade II (2002) Β· Blade: Trinity (2004)

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Revenge
2017 Β· dir. Coralie Fargeat
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.4action Β· horror Β· thrillerRent or buy

Vengeance pursued with brutal, unflinching physical intensity

The difference: A survivalist rape-revenge thriller, not supernatural vampire warfare

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

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I Saw the Devil
2010 Β· dir. Kim Jee-woon
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.8thriller Β· horror

A relentless pursuit of vengeance that blurs hunter and monster

The difference: A grim cat-and-mouse thriller, not supernatural vampire-hunting action

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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The Woman in Black
2012 Β· dir. James Watkins
πŸ… 66%β˜… 6.4drama Β· horror Β· thrillerParamount+

Common ground: revenge

The difference: Trades the momentum of Blade for an angle of its own

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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The Mask of Zorro
1998 Β· dir. Martin Campbell
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.8action Β· adventure

A skilled hero carving out justice with blade in hand

The difference: Swashbuckling period heroics, not vampire-hunting horror

It has been twenty years since Don Diego de la Vega fought Spanish oppression in Alta California as the legendary romantic hero, Zorro. Having escaped from prison he transforms troubled bandit Alejandro into his successor, in order to foil the plans of the tyrannical Don Rafael Montero who robbed him of his freedom, his wife and his precious daughter.

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From Dusk Till Dawn
1996 Β· dir. Robert Rodriguez
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.2horror Β· action Β· crimePeacock

Both are built on the same subject: vampire

The difference: Easier on the relentlessness than Blade

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.

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Constantine
2005 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 46%β˜… 7fantasy Β· action Β· horrorMax

A hardened hero navigating a hidden supernatural underworld

The difference: Demons-and-angels mysticism, not vampire hunting and swordplay

John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

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Friday the 13th
1980 Β· dir. Sean S. Cunningham
πŸ… 50%β˜… 6.4horrorNetflixParamount+

Relentless dread as an unstoppable threat stalks its prey

The difference: Slasher-camp body count, not a martial-arts vampire-hunter saga

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 Β· dir. Steve Beck
πŸ… 19%β˜… 5.6horror Β· thriller

Supernatural forces trapping the living in a fight for survival

The difference: A haunted-house ensemble trap, not a lone hunter's ongoing war

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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Carrie
2013 Β· dir. Kimberly Peirce
πŸ… 51%β˜… 5.8drama Β· horrorPrime Video

An outsider's suffering building toward a violent reckoning

The difference: A bullied teen's psychic breaking point, not a hunter's ongoing mission

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

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Ma
2019 Β· dir. Tate Taylor
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.6horror Β· thrillerHuluPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: revenge

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Blade does

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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Hannibal Rising
2007 Β· dir. Peter Webber
πŸ… 16%β˜… 6.1crime Β· thriller Β· horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

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I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997 Β· dir. Jim Gillespie
πŸ… 46%β˜… 5.9horror Β· thriller Β· mysteryNetflix

Relentless horror in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Blade does

After an accident on a winding road, four teens make the fatal mistake of dumping their victim's body into the sea. Exactly one year later, the deadly secret resurfaces as they're stalked by a hook-handed figure.

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