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Movies that feel like Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1976)

If you loved Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, the closest films we have are Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Audition (2000) and Cannibal Holocaust (1980). All three share Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Pier Paolo Pasolinidreadunsettlingcontemplative

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%7.4drama · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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Audition
2000 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 81%7.1horror · drama

One thread runs through both: sadism

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

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Cannibal Holocaust
1980 · dir. Ruggero Deodato
🍅 65%5.8horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

The difference: Without the same stillness

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%7.5horror

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 76%6.8horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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Suspiria
1977 · dir. Dario Argento
🍅 94%7.3horror

Both lean on unease more than on drama

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

Both play horror straight

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
6.9horror

Horror of the same temperament

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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Dracula
1958 · dir. Terence Fisher
🍅 89%7.2horror

Cut from the same horror cloth

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 85%7.4horror

Both know what they want from horror

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%6.7drama · horror · thriller

Contemplative drama in both cases

The difference: Leans further into thriller

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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Funny Games
1997 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 73%7.5drama · horror · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: sadism

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

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