
Movies that feel like Frankenstein (2025)
If you loved Frankenstein, the closest films we have are The Devil's Backbone (2001), Nosferatu (2024) and November (2017). All three share Frankenstein's dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.
If Frankenstein hit the spot, these will too

Guillermo del Toro directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Frankenstein does

Common ground: gothic horror
The difference: None of the stillness Frankenstein is built on

Both land stillness and dream logic at once

Both are built on the same subject: fathers and sons

The same preoccupation in both: gothic horror
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft


The same mix in both: dread, then unease

Both keep coming back to the same thing: supernatural

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

Both are Guillermo del Toro's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Both lean on dread more than on horror
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