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Movies that feel like The Black Cat (1934)

If you loved The Black Cat, the closest films we have are White Zombie (1932), The Most Dangerous Game (1932) and Dead of Night (1945). All three share The Black Cat'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.

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Edgar G. Ulmerdreadunsettlingtense

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

The same two preoccupations: black and white, and newlywed

The difference: None of the tension The Black Cat is built on

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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The Most Dangerous Game
1932 Β· dir. Irving Pichel
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· adventure Β· horror

The same preoccupation in both: pre-code

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than The Black Cat does

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

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Dead of Night
1945 Β· dir. Charles Crichton
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5horror Β· thriller

Common ground: black and white

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 Β· dir. Rupert Julian
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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Nightwatch
1994 Β· dir. Ole Bornedal
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.2horror Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on horror

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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Death Whisperer
2023 Β· dir. Taweewat Wantha
β˜… 5.8horror Β· thriller

Thriller built on dread, twice over

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

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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Island of Lost Souls
1932 Β· dir. Erle C. Kenton
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.4science fiction Β· horror

One thread runs through both: pre-code

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Black Cat does

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 Old Dark House
1932 Β· dir. James Whale
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7drama Β· horror Β· thriller

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

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What We Become
2015 Β· dir. Bo Mikkelsen
β˜… 5.5horror Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 Β· dir. Rouben Mamoulian
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.6horror Β· science fiction Β· drama

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

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The Pool
2018 Β· dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
πŸ… 96%β˜… 5.3thriller Β· horror

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 Β· dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
πŸ… 55%β˜… 5.8thriller Β· horror

The shared currency is tension

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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