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Movies that feel like The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead (2018)

If you loved The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead, the closest films we have are Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest (2020), The Bride (2017) and Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017). All three share The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead'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 HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.

4.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevskydreadunsettlingdreamlikewistful
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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.7horror

Svyatoslav Podgaevsky directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.6mystery · horror · thriller

Svyatoslav Podgaevsky working the same nerve twice

The difference: Without the same dream logic

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%6.9fantasy · horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%8.2fantasy · horror

Both lean on dream logic more than on horror

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Dread-soaked fantasy in both cases

The difference: Leans further into drama

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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The Lure
2015 · dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńska
🍅 89%6.2horror · music · fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: mermaid

The difference: Played as music first

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

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Extra Ordinary
2019 · dir. Mike Ahern
🍅 98%6.4fantasy · comedy · horror

Romance built on unease, twice over

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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Anna and the Apocalypse
2018 · dir. John McPhail
🍅 77%6.1horror · comedy · fantasy

Dreamlike horror, and it commits to that

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven—at Christmas—forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival. In a desperate race to reach their loved ones, they soon learn that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

Fantasy with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Unsettling romance in both cases

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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Ginger Snaps
2000 · dir. John Fawcett
🍅 90%6.8horror · fantasy

Wistful horror in both cases

The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.

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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Juliana Rojas
🍅 96%6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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