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Movies that feel like Dracula (1931)

If you loved Dracula, the closest films we have are Freaks (1932), Dracula (1958) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). All three share Dracula's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tod Browningdreadunsettling
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Freaks
1932 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 95%7.8drama · horror

Tod Browning working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Dracula does

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

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Dracula
1958 · dir. Terence Fisher
🍅 89%7.2horror

Common ground: vampire

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1950s show

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. 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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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%7.5horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%7.4drama · horror

The same two preoccupations: transylvania, and castle

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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White Zombie
1932 · dir. Victor Halperin
🍅 77%6.2horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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

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The Wolf Man
1941 · dir. George Waggner
🍅 91%7.2horror · drama

Both are built on the same subject: transformation

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

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Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · dir. James Whale
🍅 98%7.8horror · science fiction

Two things both keep coming back to: monster and halloween

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

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Frankenstein
1931 · dir. James Whale
🍅 94%7.7drama · horror · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: monster

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

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Häxan
1922 · dir. Benjamin Christensen
🍅 93%7.6documentary · horror · history

One thread runs through both: superstition

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

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The Mummy
1932 · dir. Karl Freund
🍅 90%6.9horror · fantasy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · dir. Rouben Mamoulian
🍅 91%7.6horror · science fiction · drama

The same preoccupation in both: transformation

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

Unsettling 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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