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Movies that feel like The Lost Boys (1987)

If you loved The Lost Boys, the closest films we have are Fright Night (1985), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) and Better Watch Out (2017). All three share The Lost Boys' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.

πŸ… 75% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.2 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Joel Schumacherdreadunsettlingwittyplayfultense

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Fright Night
1985 Β· dir. Tom Holland
πŸ… 83%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· horror

One thread runs through both: vampire

The difference: None of the tension The Lost Boys is built on

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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The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 73%β˜… 7comedy Β· horror

The same preoccupation in both: vampire

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

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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Better Watch Out
2017 Β· dir. Chris Peckover
πŸ… 89%β˜… 6.5horror Β· thriller Β· comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.

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Housebound
2014 Β· dir. Gerard Johnstone
πŸ… 95%β˜… 6.7horror Β· comedy Β· thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

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Thesis
1996 Β· dir. Alejandro AmenΓ‘bar
πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.4horror Β· thriller

Common ground: murder

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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

Both lean on tension more than on horror

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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Nightwatch
1994 Β· dir. Ole Bornedal
πŸ… 63%β˜… 7.1horror Β· thriller

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

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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Tremors
1990 Β· dir. Ron Underwood
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· horror Β· science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: small town life

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than The Lost Boys does

Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.

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Bubba Ho-tep
2002 Β· dir. Don Coscarelli
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.9comedy Β· horror Β· thriller

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Lost Boys does

The "true" story of what really became of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.

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Re-Animator
1985 Β· dir. Stuart Gordon
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1science fiction Β· comedy Β· horror

Comedy built on unease, twice over

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

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Ring
1998 Β· dir. Hideo Nakata
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.2horror Β· thriller

Tense horror, and it commits to that

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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What We Do in the Shadows
2014 Β· dir. Jemaine Clement
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6comedy Β· horror

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

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