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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.

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jacques Tourneurtwistydreadunsettlinglonely

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I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · dir. Jacques Tourneur
🍅 85%7mystery · horror · drama

Jacques Tourneur working the same nerve twice

The difference: None of the loneliness Cat People is built on

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

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The Legend of Hell House
1973 · dir. John Hough
🍅 72%6.6horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: isolation

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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The Uninvited
1944 · dir. Lewis Allen
🍅 95%7.2mystery · horror · fantasy

One thread runs through both: cat

The difference: Missing the loneliness of Cat People

A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971 · dir. John D. Hancock
🍅 42%6.4horror · mystery · drama

Common ground: isolation

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 77%5.9horror · mystery

Twisty where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

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House on Haunted Hill
1959 · dir. William Castle
🍅 80%6.7horror · mystery

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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Hour of the Wolf
1968 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 92%7.5drama · horror

Lonely horror in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Cat People does

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

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Pulse
2001 · dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
🍅 76%6.5horror · thriller · mystery

Romance built on twists, twice over

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%7.1horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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Scream 3
2000 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 45%5.7horror · mystery

Both lean on unease more than on mystery

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

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Vampyr
1932 · dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
🍅 98%7.4horror · fantasy · mystery

Twisty romance, and it commits to that

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

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The Innocents
1961 · dir. Jack Clayton
🍅 95%7.7horror · mystery · drama

Dread-soaked mystery in both cases

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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