
Movies that feel likeFrankenstein (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.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Viy (1967).
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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: Trades the stillness of Frankenstein for an angle of its own

Both land stillness and dream logic at once

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

The same preoccupation in both: fathers and sons

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

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

One thread runs through both: gothic horror
The difference: 31 years apart, and the 1990s show

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Both lean on dream logic more than on horror


Dread-soaked fantasy in both cases
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair
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