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Movies that feel likeThe Wicker Man (1973)

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

If you loved The Wicker Man, the closest films we have are The Changeling (1980), Onibaba (1964) and Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966). All three share The Wicker Man's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Mummy (1932).

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robin Hardydreadunsettling
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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%★ 7.8horrorMax

Horror built on dread, twice over

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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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Both lean on unease more than on horror

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 77%★ 6.8horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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

Both run unsettling where it counts

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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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
1974 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 85%★ 7.4horrorNetflixPrime Video

Cut from the same horror cloth

Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%★ 7.3horrorMax

Horror in the same key

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%★ 7.3drama · horrorPrime Video

Both are horror through and through

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Wicker Man does

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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The Evil Dead
1983 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 85%★ 7.3horror

Both play horror straight

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

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The Exorcist
1973 · dir. William Friedkin
🍅 78%★ 8.1horrorMax

Horror approached the same way

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

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Child's Play
1988 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 65%★ 6.7horrorPrime Video

Both know what they want from horror

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her six-year-old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.

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The Mummy
1932 · dir. Karl Freund
🍅 90%★ 6.9horrorPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: virgin

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

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.

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