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Movies that feel likeThe Cremator (1969)

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

If you loved The Cremator, the closest films we have are The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) and Wait Until Dark (1967). All three share The Cremator's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968).

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The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 73%★ 7comedy · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Cremator

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

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🍅 90%★ 7.3horror · comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1940s show

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

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Wait Until Dark
1967 · dir. Terence Young
🍅 96%★ 7.7thriller · crime · horror

Horror built on grit, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Cremator does

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

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Fright Night
1985 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 83%★ 7.1comedy · horror

Both lean on dread more than on comedy

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Unsettling drama in both cases

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

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
🍅 71%★ 5.8horror · drama

Crime with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

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Thriller: A Cruel Picture
1973 · dir. Bo Arne Vibenius
🍅 56%★ 6.4action · thriller · crime

Contemplative horror, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Madeleine, rendered mute after being sexually assaulted as a youth, accepts a lift from a wealthy and sadistic pimp who soon enslaves her into his prostitution racket. Despite her limited means, Madeleine embarks on a bloody road to revenge against her captors.

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The Golden Glove
2019 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 54%★ 6.7crime · thriller · horror

Gritty crime in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%★ 7.8horrorMax

Drama built on dread, twice over

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%★ 7.3drama · horrorPrime Video

Comedy with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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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Viy
1967 · dir. Georgi Kropachyov
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · horror

Contemplative horror in both cases

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

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

Both play drama straight

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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