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Movies that feel like Fantasy Island (2020)

If you loved Fantasy Island, the closest films we have are Forbidden Empire (2014), Truth or Dare (2018) and The Medium (2021). All three share Fantasy Island's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.

🍅 9% Rotten Tomatoes4.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jeff Wadlowepicdreamlikedreadunsettlingtwisty
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Forbidden Empire
2014 · dir. Oleg Stepchenko
5.2thriller · adventure · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark fantasy

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Fantasy Island does

Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

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Truth or Dare
2018 · dir. Jeff Wadlow
🍅 16%5.2thriller · horror

The same hand behind both of them: Jeff Wadlow

The difference: Missing the scale of Fantasy Island

A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%6.5horror · mystery

Common ground in both: supernatural and supernatural horror

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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Paranormal Activity 2
2010 · dir. Tod Williams
🍅 58%5.7horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

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Malignant
2021 · dir. James Wan
🍅 77%6.2horror · mystery

Dreamlike and dread-soaked in the same breath

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%6.4horror

The same preoccupation in both: reality vs fantasy

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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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%6.2horror · mystery

One thread runs through both: cave

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Scream
2022 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 76%6.3horror · mystery

Both land unease and twists at once

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Marco Dutra
🍅 96%6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Fantasy Island does

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · dir. Samuel Bayer
🍅 14%5.2horror · mystery · thriller

Common ground: reality vs fantasy

Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The man terrorizes them in their dreams, and the only escape is to wake up. But when, one by one, they start dying violently, the friends realize that what happens in the dream world is real, and the only way to stay alive is to stay awake.

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A Dark Song
2016 · dir. Liam Gavin
🍅 91%6.2horror · fantasy · mystery

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

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Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · dir. Lee Cronin
🍅 45%6.2horror · mystery

Mystery built on unease, twice over

The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.

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