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Movies that feel like The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

If you loved The Most Dangerous Game, the closest films we have are Island of Lost Souls (1932), The Black Cat (1934) and White Zombie (1932). All three share The Most Dangerous Game's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%7.4science fiction · horror

Common ground in both: stranded and remote island

The difference: Missing the tension of The Most Dangerous Game

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 Black Cat
1934 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 89%6.9horror · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: black and white and pre-code

The difference: Not nearly as epic as The Most Dangerous Game

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.

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White Zombie
1932 · dir. Victor Halperin
🍅 77%6.2horror

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

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Häxan
1922 · dir. Benjamin Christensen
🍅 93%7.6documentary · horror · history

The same mix in both: scale, then dread

The difference: Sits closer to documentary than The Most Dangerous Game does

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

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Dead of Night
1945 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%7.5horror · thriller

Tense where it counts, unsettling underneath

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 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%7.5horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

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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King Kong
1933 · dir. Merian C. Cooper
🍅 97%7.9adventure · fantasy · horror

Common ground: pre-code

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · dir. Rouben Mamoulian
🍅 91%7.6horror · science fiction · drama

Thriller built on unease, twice over

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 Old Dark House
1932 · dir. James Whale
🍅 97%7drama · horror · thriller

Tense adventure, 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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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

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

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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Day Watch
2006 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 62%6.4fantasy · action · adventure

Epic thriller in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%7.2horror · thriller

Tense horror, and it commits to that

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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