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Movies that feel likeSeconds (1966)

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

If you loved Seconds, the closest films we have are Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Godzilla (1954) and Son of Frankenstein (1939). All three share Seconds' cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Island of Lost Souls (1932).

🍅 79% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. John Frankenheimercerebraltensedreadunsettling
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · dir. Don Siegel
🍅 97%★ 7.7science fiction · horror · thrillerParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: black and white

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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Godzilla
1954 · dir. Ishirō Honda
🍅 94%★ 7.6thriller · horror · science fictionMax

Common ground: black and white

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

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Son of Frankenstein
1939 · dir. Rowland V. Lee
🍅 95%★ 7.1horror · science fiction

Cerebral and dread-soaked in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the tension than Seconds

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

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Altered States
1980 · dir. Ken Russell
🍅 85%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thriller

Both land tension and unease at once

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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Phantasm
1979 · dir. Don Coscarelli
🍅 72%★ 6.6horror · science fictionPrime Video

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

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The Fly
1958 · dir. Kurt Neumann
🍅 95%★ 7.1science fiction · horror · dramaPrime Video

Horror built on dread, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Seconds does

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

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Phase IV
1974 · dir. Saul Bass
🍅 50%★ 6.4horror · science fiction

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

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Superdeep
2020 · dir. Arseny Syukhin
🍅 25%★ 4.9horror · science fiction · thrillerRent or buy

Science fiction with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

In 1984, a Russian research team goes below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole is hiding. On their expedition, something unexpectedly gruesome awaits the researchers.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · dir. Philip Kaufman
🍅 93%★ 7.4science fiction · horror

Cerebral horror in both cases

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · dir. Robert Aldrich
🍅 91%★ 8horror · thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%★ 7.3science fiction · horror

Dread-soaked science fiction, and it commits to that

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

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The Thing from Another World
1951 · dir. Christian Nyby
🍅 87%★ 7drama · horror · science fiction

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

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