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Movies that feel likeHansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

If you loved Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the closest films we have are Constantine (2005), Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) and Tale of Tales (2015). All three share Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tumbbad (2018).

🍅 17% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tommy Wirkoladreamlikedreadunsettlingkinetic
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Constantine
2005 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 46%★ 7fantasy · action · horrorMax

The same mix in both: dream logic, then dread

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

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

One thread runs through both: gun

The difference: Less kinetic, more its own thing

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

Both are built on the same subject: witch

The difference: Leans further into romance

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: evil

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

Both lean on unease more than on horror

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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Hellboy
2004 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 81%★ 6.9fantasy · action

The same two preoccupations: black magic, and steampunk

In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.

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Dracula Untold
2014 · dir. Gary Shore
🍅 26%★ 6.2horror · action · fantasyPrime Video

Kinetic fantasy in both cases

Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 34%★ 5.9action · fantasy · horrorMax

Dreamlike action, and it commits to that

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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Hellboy
2019 · dir. Neil Marshall
🍅 17%★ 5.3fantasy · horror · actionNetflix

Fantasy with a pulse of dread, in both cases

The difference: Played as adventure first

Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.

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Priest
2011 · dir. Scott Stewart
🍅 16%★ 5.7action · fantasy · horrorStarz

Horror built on unease, twice over

In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.

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

Action built on dream logic, twice over

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

Fantasy built on dread, twice over

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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