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Movies that feel likeFrom Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety, unaware of its notorious clientele.

If you loved From Dusk Till Dawn, the closest films we have are Planet Terror (2007), Army of the Dead (2021) and Red Dragon (2002). All three share From Dusk Till Dawn's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Kill List (2011).

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Rodriguezdreadunsettlingkineticgritty
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Peacock Premium

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Planet Terror
2007 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 76%★ 7horror · action · thriller

Robert Rodriguez directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the grit of From Dusk Till Dawn for an angle of its own

Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.

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Army of the Dead
2021 · dir. Zack Snyder
🍅 68%★ 5.8crime · action · horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.

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Red Dragon
2002 · dir. Brett Ratner
🍅 68%★ 7.2crime · thriller · horrorNetflixPeacock

Both lean on grit more than on horror

The difference: Easier on the momentum than From Dusk Till Dawn

Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

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Cannibal Holocaust
1980 · dir. Ruggero Deodato
🍅 65%★ 5.8horror

Dread-soaked action, and it commits to that

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%★ 6.3horror · thriller · crimeRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: priest

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than From Dusk Till Dawn does

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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Bone Tomahawk
2015 · dir. S. Craig Zahler
🍅 91%★ 7.1drama · horror · westernRent or buy

One thread runs through both: sheriff

The difference: Reviewed even better

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

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Saw 3D
2010 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 9%★ 5.5horror · crime

Unsettling crime in both cases

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.

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Thriller: A Cruel Picture
1973 · dir. Bo Arne Vibenius
🍅 56%★ 6.4action · thriller · crime

Horror with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

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The Exorcism of Emily Rose
2005 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 20%★ 6.7crime · drama · horror

The same preoccupation in both: priest

When a young girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

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El Mariachi
1993 · dir. Robert Rodriguez
🍅 91%★ 6.8action · crime · thriller

The same hand behind both of them: Robert Rodriguez

El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor, a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake el Mariachi for the killer, Azul, and chase him around town trying to kill him and get his guitar case.

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Van Helsing
2004 · dir. Stephen Sommers
★ 6.1horror · adventure · actionPrime VideoPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: vampire

Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992 · dir. Francis Ford Coppola
🍅 69%★ 7.4romance · horror

Common ground: vampire

Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Count sees a photo of Harker's fiancée, Mina, the spitting image of his dead wife, he imprisons him and sets off for London to track her down.

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