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Movies that feel likeDoctor Sleep (2019)

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

If you loved Doctor Sleep, the closest films we have are Oculus (2014), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) and Nosferatu (2024). All three share Doctor Sleep'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 November (2017).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mike Flanagandreadunsettlingdreamlikehopeful
12 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Shining (1980)

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%★ 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

Mike Flanagan working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the hope of Doctor Sleep for an angle of its own

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%★ 6.2horrorNetflix

Both are Mike Flanagan's work, and they rhyme

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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Nosferatu
2024 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror · fantasyHulu

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%★ 6.9fantasy · horrorRent or buy

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%★ 8.2fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Both lean on dread more than on fantasy

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Frankenstein
2025 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 85%★ 7.4drama · fantasy · horrorNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Doctor Sleep does

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

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Legion
2010 · dir. Scott Stewart
🍅 20%★ 5.3action · fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%★ 6.4horrorPrime Video

Horror built on unease, twice over

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

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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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 34%★ 5.9action · fantasy · horrorMax

Unsettling fantasy in both cases

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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Dracula Untold
2014 · dir. Gary Shore
🍅 26%★ 6.2horror · action · fantasyPrime Video

The shared currency is dream logic

Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.

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