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Movies that feel likeUnderworld: Awakening (2012)

Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. Now Selene must battle the humans and a frightening new breed of super Lycans to ensure the death dealers' survival.

If you loved Underworld: Awakening, the closest films we have are Hostel (2006), Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001) and Nosferatu (2024). All three share Underworld: Awakening'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 They Look Like People (2016).

🍅 26% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Måns Mårlinddreamlikekineticdreadunsettlingparanoid
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Underworld (2003) · Underworld: Evolution (2006) · Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) · Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)

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Hostel
2006 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 60%★ 5.9horrorPeacock

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

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Brotherhood of the Wolf
2001 · dir. Christophe Gans
🍅 74%★ 7adventure · horror · actionPrime Video

Both are working the same pair: conspiracy, werewolf

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Underworld: Awakening for an angle of its own

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

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Nosferatu
2024 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror · fantasyHulu

Common ground in both: vampire and gothic

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Underworld: Awakening does

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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They Look Like People
2016 · dir. Perry Blackshear
🍅 92%★ 5.8drama · horror · mystery

Dreamlike where it counts, paranoid underneath

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Underworld: Awakening does

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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Constantine
2005 · dir. Francis Lawrence
🍅 46%★ 7fantasy · action · horrorMax

Both lean on momentum more than on fantasy

John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 34%★ 5.9action · fantasy · horrorMax

Common ground: vampire

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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Dracula Untold
2014 · dir. Gary Shore
🍅 26%★ 6.2horror · action · fantasyPrime Video

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.

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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2013 · dir. Tommy Wirkola
🍅 17%★ 6.1fantasy · horror · actionParamount+

Dread-soaked fantasy in both cases

After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.

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Priest
2011 · dir. Scott Stewart
🍅 16%★ 5.7action · fantasy · horrorStarz

One thread runs through both: dark fantasy

In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.

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Resident Evil: Retribution
2012 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 28%★ 5.3action · horror · science fictionNetflixPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: conspiracy

The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most clandestine operations facility and unveils more of her mysterious past as she delves further into the complex. Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt those responsible for the outbreak; a chase that takes her from Tokyo to New York, Washington, D.C. and Moscow, culminating in a mind-blowing revelation that will force her to rethink everything that she once thought to be true. Aided by new found allies and familiar friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of oblivion. The countdown has begun.

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The Pope's Exorcist
2023 · dir. Julius Avery
🍅 50%★ 6.1horror · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Horror built on unease, twice over

Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

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