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Movies that feel like Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020)

If you loved Roald Dahl's The Witches, the closest films we have are The Witches (1990), Death Becomes Her (1992) and Anna and the Apocalypse (2018). All three share Roald Dahl's The Witches' dreamlike 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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Zemeckiswittyplayfuldreamlikedreadunsettling

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

The same two preoccupations: hotel, and witch

The difference: Not nearly as witty as Roald Dahl's The Witches

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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Death Becomes Her
1992 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
6.7comedy · fantasy · horror

Both are Robert Zemeckis's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.

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Anna and the Apocalypse
2018 · dir. John McPhail
🍅 77%6.1horror · comedy · fantasy

Both land wit and play at once

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven—at Christmas—forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival. In a desperate race to reach their loved ones, they soon learn that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

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Extra Ordinary
2019 · dir. Mike Ahern
🍅 98%6.4fantasy · comedy · horror

Dreamlike where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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Krampus
2015 · dir. Michael Dougherty
🍅 67%6.2horror · comedy · fantasy

Comedy built on unease, twice over

When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.

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

One thread runs through both: orphan

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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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
2020 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%4.9comedy · horror

Witty horror in both cases

Addicted to technology, a group of teens attends a rehabilitation camp in the forest, but a sinister force there intends to take them offline forever.

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Monster House
2006 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 75%6.7animation · comedy · family

Playful fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Roald Dahl's The Witches does

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

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

The same preoccupation in both: witch

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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Army of Darkness
1992 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 68%7.4fantasy · horror · comedy

Family with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

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

Both lean on dread more than on fantasy

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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The Dead Don't Die
2019 · dir. Jim Jarmusch
🍅 55%5.4comedy · drama · horror

Unsettling comedy, and it commits to that

In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted by the undead.

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