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Movies that feel like The Mummy (1932)

If you loved The Mummy, the closest films we have are The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), Faust (1926) and The Uninvited (1944). All three share The Mummy'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, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Karl Freunddreadunsettlingdreamlike
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949 · dir. Clyde Geronimi
🍅 89%6.8horror · fantasy · animation

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

The difference: Sits closer to animation than The Mummy does

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.

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Faust
1926 · dir. F. W. Murnau
🍅 91%8.1fantasy · drama · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.

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The Uninvited
1944 · dir. Lewis Allen
🍅 95%7.2mystery · horror · fantasy

Common ground: trance

A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · dir. Albert Lewin
🍅 94%7.5drama · horror · fantasy

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

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The Phantom Carriage
1921 · dir. Victor Sjöström
🍅 100%8drama · fantasy · horror

Both lean on dread more than on fantasy

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

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Vampyr
1932 · dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
🍅 98%7.4horror · fantasy · mystery

Unsettling horror in both cases

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%7.3horror

Both are built on the same subject: halloween

The difference: None of the dream logic The Mummy is built on

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

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

Fantasy built on dread, twice over

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

Dreamlike horror, and it commits to that

The difference: 85 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Un Chien Andalou
1929 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 100%7.6fantasy · horror · thriller

Fantasy with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

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

Both work the same dream logic

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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Poison for the Fairies
1986 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
7.2fantasy · horror

Cut from the same horror cloth

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.

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