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Movies that feel like I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

If you loved I Walked with a Zombie, the closest films we have are Cat People (1942), The Uninvited (1944) and Vampyr (1932). All three share I Walked with a Zombie's twisty and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

πŸ… 85% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Jacques Tourneurtwistydreadunsettlingcontemplativedreamlike

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Cat People
1942 Β· dir. Jacques Tourneur
πŸ… 92%β˜… 7.2mystery Β· horror Β· romance

The same hand behind both of them: Jacques Tourneur

The difference: None of the stillness I Walked with a Zombie is built on

A Serbian Γ©migrΓ© in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

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The Uninvited
1944 Β· dir. Lewis Allen
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.2mystery Β· horror Β· fantasy

Twisty where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as I Walked with a Zombie

A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly priceβ€”and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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Vampyr
1932 Β· dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4horror Β· fantasy Β· mystery

Both land unease and dream logic at once

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 Β· dir. Albert Lewin
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.5drama Β· horror Β· fantasy

Horror with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

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Carnival of Souls
1962 Β· dir. Herk Harvey
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· fantasy

Twisty mystery in both cases

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

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Good Manners
2018 Β· dir. Juliana Rojas
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.7fantasy Β· horror Β· mystery

Drama built on dread, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of SΓ£o Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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The Last Wave
1977 Β· dir. Peter Weir
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9drama Β· mystery Β· horror

Common ground: voodoo

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

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The Sentinel
1977 Β· dir. Michael Winner
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery Β· fantasy

Both lean on unease more than on fantasy

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 Β· dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
β˜… 7.2mystery Β· horror Β· drama

Contemplative mystery, and it commits to that

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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White Zombie
1932 Β· dir. Victor Halperin
πŸ… 77%β˜… 6.2horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: plantation

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancΓ©. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 Β· dir. Luigi Bazzoni
β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than I Walked with a Zombie does

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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Viy
1967 Β· dir. Georgi Kropachyov
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.2drama Β· fantasy Β· horror

Both lean on dread more than on drama

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

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