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Movies that feel likeHellboy (2019)

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.

If you loved Hellboy, the closest films we have are The Descent (2005), Day Watch (2006) and Tumbbad (2018). All three share Hellboy'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 Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017).

🍅 17% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Neil Marshalldreamlikedreadunsettlingkineticepic
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The Descent
2005 · dir. Neil Marshall
🍅 87%★ 7.2adventure · horror

Neil Marshall directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep underground, their adventure turns into a nightmare. As they search for a way out, the group discovers they are not alone—lurking in the darkness are savage, cave-dwelling creatures. With rising tension and dwindling trust, the women must fight to survive against both the predators and each other.

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Day Watch
2006 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 62%★ 6.4fantasy · action · adventure

Both land dream logic and dread at once

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Hellboy does

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

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

Common ground: fathers and sons

The difference: Trades the momentum of Hellboy for an angle of its own

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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Constantine
2005 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 46%★ 7fantasy · action · horrorMax

The same mix in both: unease, then momentum

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

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, 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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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 34%★ 5.9action · fantasy · horrorMax

Unsettling action in both cases

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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The Mummy
2017 · dir. Alex Kurtzman
🍅 15%★ 5.4fantasy · thriller · actionPrime VideoMax

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2013 · dir. Tommy Wirkola
🍅 17%★ 6.1fantasy · horror · actionParamount+

Fantasy built on momentum, twice over

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.

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Season of the Witch
2011 · dir. Dominic Sena
🍅 11%★ 5.4adventure · fantasy · actionPrime VideoHulu

Epic action in both cases

A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.

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

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, 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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Fantasy Island
2020 · dir. Jeff Wadlow
🍅 9%★ 4.9adventure · fantasy · horrorHulu

Both lean on dread more than on adventure

A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.

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