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Movies that feel like Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

If you loved Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, the closest films we have are The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and Dracula (1958). All three share Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

πŸ… 90% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Charles Bartondreadunsettlingwittyplayful

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949 Β· dir. Clyde Geronimi
β˜… 7.7family Β· animation Β· horror

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Played as family first

Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman is brought to life, narrated by Bing Crosby.

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The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7comedy Β· horror

Witty and playful in the same breath

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

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Dracula
1958 Β· dir. Terence Fisher
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7.2horror

Both are built on the same subject: dracula

The difference: Without the same wit

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancΓ©e. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: horror spoof

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

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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The Cremator
1969 Β· dir. Juraj Herz
πŸ… 89%β˜… 8horror Β· drama Β· crime

Both lean on dread more than on horror

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1960s show

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

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White Zombie
1932 Β· dir. Victor Halperin
πŸ… 77%β˜… 6.2horror

Common ground: black and white

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancΓ©. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.8horror

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 Β· dir. Rupert Julian
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5horror

Unsettling comedy in both cases

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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The Haunting
1963 Β· dir. Robert Wise
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 Β· dir. Mario Bava
β˜… 6.9horror

Comedy with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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The Skeleton Dance
1929 Β· dir. Walt Disney
β˜… 7.6animation Β· family Β· music

Horror built on wit, twice over

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

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

Playful comedy 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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