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Movies that feel like White Zombie (1932)

If you loved White Zombie, the closest films we have are The Black Cat (1934), The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and Island of Lost Souls (1932). All three share White Zombie's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Victor Halperindreadunsettling
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The Black Cat
1934 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 89%6.9horror · thriller

The same two preoccupations: black and white, and newlywed

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than White Zombie does

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%7.5horror

One thread runs through both: black and white

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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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%7.4science fiction · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: pre-code

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than White Zombie does

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · dir. Rouben Mamoulian
🍅 91%7.6horror · science fiction · drama

The same preoccupation in both: pre-code

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%7.3horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
6.9horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The difference: 34 years apart, and the 1960s show

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

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Son of Frankenstein
1939 · dir. Rowland V. Lee
🍅 95%7horror · science fiction

Horror built on unease, twice over

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: zombie

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%7.8horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

The shared currency is unease

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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The Most Dangerous Game
1932 · dir. Irving Pichel
🍅 100%7.1thriller · adventure · horror

Both know what they want from horror

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

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Ziam
2025 · dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
🍅 77%4.9horror · thriller · action

Common ground: zombie

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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