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Movies that feel like The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

If you loved The Phantom of the Opera, the closest films we have are White Zombie (1932), The Phantom Carriage (1921) and Dracula (1931). All three share The Phantom of the Opera'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 HBO Max, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rupert Juliandreadunsettling
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White Zombie
1932 · dir. Victor Halperin
🍅 77%6.2horror

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

Both are working the same pair: phantom, silent film

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Phantom of the Opera does

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

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

The difference: Leans harder into documentary than The Phantom of the Opera 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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Faust
1926 · dir. F. W. Murnau
🍅 91%8.1fantasy · drama · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: silent film

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

Horror built on unease, twice over

The difference: 38 years apart, and the 1960s show

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%7.8horror

Both lean on dread more than on horror

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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

Both sit in the same unsettling register

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

Both play horror straight

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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Dracula
1958 · dir. Terence Fisher
🍅 89%7.2horror

The same horror instincts

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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

The same preoccupation in both: gothic horror

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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