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Movies that feel like Dracula (1958)

If you loved Dracula, the closest films we have are The Haunting (1963), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and Onibaba (1964). 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.

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.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Terence Fisherdreadunsettling

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

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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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The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 73%7comedy · horror

Both are built on the same subject: vampire

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than Dracula does

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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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%7.8horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

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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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
6.9horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

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

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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%7.3horror

The same preoccupation in both: vampire

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1930s show

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.

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Dracula does

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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Fright Night
1985 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 83%7.1comedy · horror

One thread runs through both: vampire hunter (slayer)

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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🍅 90%7.3horror · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dracula

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

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%7.5horror

A streak of unease through both

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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Suspiria
1977 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%7.3horror

Common ground: gothic

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%7.5horror

Both know what they want from horror

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

Cut from the same horror cloth

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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