
Movies that feel like The Fly (1958)
If you loved The Fly, the closest films we have are The Thing from Another World (1951), Phase IV (1974) and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). All three share The Fly's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.
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If The Fly hit the spot, these will too

The same mix in both: ideas, then dread

Both are built on the same subject: scientist
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Both keep coming back to the same thing: scientist
The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as The Fly

Both land unease and stillness at once
The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1930s show

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that
The difference: Missing the stillness of The Fly

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Unsettling drama in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: experiment

Common ground: mutation

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

One thread runs through both: experiment
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