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Movies that feel like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

If you loved What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the closest films we have are The Haunting (1963), Onibaba (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967). All three share What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'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 HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Aldrichcontemplativedreadunsettlingtense

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

The same preoccupation in both: insanity

The difference: Lighter on stillness

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 keep coming back to the same thing: murder

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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Wait Until Dark
1967 · dir. Terence Young
🍅 96%7.7thriller · crime · horror

One thread runs through both: murder

The difference: Leans further into crime

After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%7.4drama · horror

Both land stillness and dread at once

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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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%5.8thriller · horror

Unsettling and tense in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

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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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%6.7drama · horror · thriller

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1990s show

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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Dead of Night
1945 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%7.5horror · thriller

Common ground: insanity

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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Eyes Without a Face
1960 · dir. Georges Franju
🍅 97%7.6drama · horror · thriller

Unsettling thriller in both cases

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · dir. Don Siegel
🍅 97%7.7science fiction · horror · thriller

Tense horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Played as science fiction first

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%7.4horror · thriller

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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The Birds
1963 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 95%7.6horror · thriller

Both lean on unease more than on drama

Thousands of birds flock into a seaside town and terrorize the residents in a series of deadly attacks.

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