
Movies that feel like Cat People (1942)
If you loved Cat People, the closest films we have are I Walked with a Zombie (1943), The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Uninvited (1944). All three share Cat People's twisty and dread 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.
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If Cat People hit the spot, these will too

Jacques Tourneur working the same nerve twice
The difference: None of the loneliness Cat People is built on

The same preoccupation in both: isolation
The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

One thread runs through both: cat
The difference: Missing the loneliness of Cat People

Common ground: isolation
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Twisty where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

Lonely horror in both cases
The difference: Leans harder into drama than Cat People does

Romance built on twists, twice over

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Both lean on unease more than on mystery

Twisty romance, and it commits to that

Dread-soaked mystery in both cases
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