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Movies that feel like Vampyr (1932)

If you loved Vampyr, the closest films we have are The Uninvited (1944), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and Carnival of Souls (1962). All three share Vampyr's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 98% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Carl Theodor Dreyerdreadunsettlingdreamliketwisty
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The Uninvited
1944 Β· dir. Lewis Allen
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.2mystery Β· horror Β· fantasy

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Vampyr does

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 priceβ€”and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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I Walked with a Zombie
1943 Β· dir. Jacques Tourneur
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7mystery Β· horror Β· drama

Both land dream logic and twists at once

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

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Carnival of Souls
1962 Β· dir. Herk Harvey
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· fantasy

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1960s show

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

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Next of Kin
1982 Β· dir. Tony Williams
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dreams

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 Β· dir. Rupert Julian
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.5horror

Common ground in both: black and white and gothic horror

The difference: Missing the dream logic of Vampyr

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

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The Mummy
1932 Β· dir. Karl Freund
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.9horror Β· fantasy

Fantasy built on unease, twice over

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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The Sentinel
1977 Β· dir. Michael Winner
πŸ… 45%β˜… 6.3horror Β· mystery Β· fantasy

Mystery with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

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The Little Stranger
2018 Β· dir. Lenny Abrahamson
πŸ… 64%β˜… 5.5mystery Β· horror

Both lean on twists more than on horror

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Dead of Night
1945 Β· dir. Charles Crichton
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5horror Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: dreams

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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Footprints on the Moon
1975 Β· dir. Luigi Bazzoni
β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

Dread-soaked mystery in both cases

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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Dracula
1931 Β· dir. Tod Browning
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.3horror

The same two preoccupations: vampire, and castle

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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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 Β· dir. Maya Deren
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.8mystery Β· fantasy

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

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