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Movies that feel likeBud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

If you loved Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, the closest films we have are The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), Dracula (1958) and Fright Night (1985). All three share Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein'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 Cremator (1969).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Charles Bartondreadunsettlingwittyplayful
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The Fearless Vampire Killers
1967 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 73%★ 7comedy · horror

Common ground: halloween

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

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

Both are built on the same subject: dracula

The difference: Goes its own way on the wit

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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Fright Night
1985 · dir. Tom Holland
🍅 83%★ 7.1comedy · horror

The same preoccupation in both: halloween

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
1949 · dir. Clyde Geronimi
★ 7.7family · animation · horror

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Played as family first

Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the headless horseman is brought to life, narrated by Bing Crosby.

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The Cremator
1969 · dir. Juraj Herz
🍅 89%★ 8horror · drama · crime

Witty and playful in the same breath

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

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Extra Ordinary
2019 · dir. Mike Ahern
🍅 98%★ 6.4fantasy · comedy · horrorPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: horror spoof

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
2020 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%★ 4.9comedy · horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Addicted to technology, a group of teens attends a rehabilitation camp in the forest, but a sinister force there intends to take them offline forever.

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White Zombie
1932 · dir. Victor Halperin
🍅 77%★ 6.2horrorPrime Video

One thread runs through both: black and white

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.

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

Common ground: black and white

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

Comedy with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

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 · dir. Karl Freund
🍅 90%★ 6.9horrorPeacock

Unsettling comedy, and it commits to that

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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