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Movies that feel likeGinger Snaps (2000)

The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.

If you loved Ginger Snaps, the closest films we have are The Kingdom (1994), Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) and Poison for the Fairies (1986). All three share Ginger Snaps' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is November (2017).

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The Kingdom
1994 · dir. Lars von Trier
★ 7.8drama · fantasy · horror

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Trades the wistfulness of Ginger Snaps for an angle of its own

At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate.

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

Common ground: murder

The difference: Takes it somewhere less darkly funny than Ginger Snaps does

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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Poison for the Fairies
1986 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2fantasy · horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.

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

The same preoccupation in both: werewolf

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Ginger Snaps does

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

Horror built on dream logic, twice over

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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Thirst
2009 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 81%★ 7.1drama · horror · thriller

Wistful fantasy in both cases

A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.

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The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead
2018 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.4horror · fantasy · romancePrime Video

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.

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

Fantasy with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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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The Witches
1990 · dir. Nicolas Roeg
🍅 94%★ 6.8fantasy · family · horrorPeacock

The same two preoccupations: transformation, and halloween

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.

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The Devil's Backbone
2001 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 93%★ 7.3fantasy · drama · horror

Both lean on dream logic more than on horror

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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The Eye
2002 · dir. Oxide Pang
🍅 63%★ 6.6horror

Dread-soaked fantasy in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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Freddy vs. Jason
2003 · dir. Ronny Yu
🍅 41%★ 5.8horrorMax

One thread runs through both: marijuana

Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too.

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