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Movies that feel likeFrankenstein (2025)

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.

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.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Viy (1967).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Guillermo del Torocontemplativedreamlikedreadunsettling
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The Devil's Backbone
2001 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 93%★ 7.3fantasy · drama · horror

Guillermo del Toro directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Frankenstein does

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

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

Common ground: gothic horror

The difference: Trades the stillness of Frankenstein for an angle of its own

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

Both land stillness and dream logic at once

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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Doctor Sleep
2019 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 79%★ 7.3horror · fantasyParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

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".

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

The same preoccupation in both: fathers and sons

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: mother son relationship

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

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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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Interview with the Vampire
1994 · dir. Neil Jordan
🍅 66%★ 7.5horror · drama · fantasyMax

One thread runs through both: gothic horror

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 1990s show

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

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Viy
1967 · dir. Georgi Kropachyov
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · horror

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

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mother!
2017 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 68%★ 6.6horror · dramaRent or buy

Both lean on dream logic more than on horror

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

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

Same instincts, 11 years apart

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

Dread-soaked fantasy in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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