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Movies that feel like Poison for the Fairies (1986)

If you loved Poison for the Fairies, the closest films we have are Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017), Nosferatu (2024) and The Witches (1990). All three share Poison for the Fairies's dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, AMC Plus Apple TV channel and AMC+ Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Carlos Enrique Taboadadreamlikedreadunsettling

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%6.9fantasy · horror

Both land dream logic and dread at once

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 2010s show

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

Unsettling fantasy in both cases

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

Both trade on dream logic more than on being horror

The difference: Plays it as family more than Poison for the Fairies does

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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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%8.2fantasy · horror

Dread-soaked fantasy, and it commits to that

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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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 94%7.4horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

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

Both are Carlos Enrique Taboada films, and they rhyme

The difference: None of the dream logic that defines Poison for the Fairies

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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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%6.6horror

Horror built on dream logic, twice over

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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Doctor Sleep
2019 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 79%7.3horror · fantasy

Fantasy with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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Interview with the Vampire
1994 · dir. Neil Jordan
🍅 66%7.5horror · drama · fantasy

A streak of unease through both

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

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

The same fantasy instincts

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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The Sentinel
1977 · dir. Michael Winner
🍅 45%6.3horror · mystery · fantasy

Horror approached the same way

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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Ginger Snaps
2000 · dir. John Fawcett
🍅 90%6.8horror · fantasy

Cut from the same fantasy cloth

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.

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