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Movies that feel likeThe Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

After getting a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter the eerie mansion of the flamboyant, seductive Dr Frank-N-Furter and a variety of eccentric characters. Through elaborate dance and rock music, the mad scientist unveils his latest creation: a perfect, muscular man.

If you loved The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the closest films we have are Re-Animator (1985), Tremors (1990) and The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967). All three share The Rocky Horror Picture Show's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).

🍅 82% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jim Sharmanwittyplayfulcerebraldreadunsettling
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If The Rocky Horror Picture Show hit the spot, these will too

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Re-Animator
1985 · dir. Stuart Gordon
🍅 88%★ 7.1science fiction · comedy · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

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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Tremors
1990 · dir. Ron Underwood
🍅 88%★ 7.2comedy · horror · science fictionPeacock

Both land wit and play at once

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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The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 73%★ 7comedy · horror

One thread runs through both: halloween

The difference: Goes its own way on the ideas

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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Fright Night
1985 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 83%★ 7.1comedy · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

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 Return of the Living Dead
1985 · dir. Dan O'Bannon
🍅 71%★ 7.3comedy · horror · science fiction

Comedy built on ideas, twice over

Two employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a toxic gas from a misplaced top-secret U.S. Army shipment, causing the dead to rise from a nearby cemetery with an insatiable hunger for human brains.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · dir. Philip Kaufman
🍅 93%★ 7.4science fiction · horror

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

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Phase IV
1974 · dir. Saul Bass
🍅 50%★ 6.4horror · science fiction

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

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Phantasm
1979 · dir. Don Coscarelli
🍅 72%★ 6.6horror · science fictionPrime Video

Science fiction with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

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Scanners
1981 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 69%★ 6.7science fiction · horrorMax

Both lean on ideas more than on horror

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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Happy Death Day 2U
2019 · dir. Christopher Landon
🍅 73%★ 6.2comedy · horror · science fictionNetflix

Comedy built on wit, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Collegian Tree Gelbman wakes up in horror to learn that she's stuck in a parallel universe. Her boyfriend Carter is now with someone else, and her friends and fellow students seem to be completely different versions of themselves. When Tree discovers that Carter's roommate has been altering time, she finds herself once again the target of a masked killer. When the psychopath starts to go after her inner circle, Tree soon realizes that she must die over and over again to save everyone.

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The Fly
1986 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 82%★ 7.6horror · science fictionHuluPeacock

Dread-soaked science fiction in both cases

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

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🍅 90%★ 7.3horror · comedy

Comedy built on play, twice over

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

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