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Movies that feel likeCat People (1942)

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

If you loved Cat People, the closest films we have are I Walked with a Zombie (1943), The Legend of Hell House (1973) and The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017). All three share Cat People's twisty and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Uninvited (1944).

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jacques Tourneurtwistydreadunsettlinglonely
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I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · dir. Jacques Tourneur
🍅 85%★ 7mystery · horror · drama

Jacques Tourneur working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the loneliness of Cat People for an angle of its own

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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The Legend of Hell House
1973 · dir. John Hough
🍅 72%★ 6.6horror · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: isolation

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 77%★ 5.9horror · mysteryPrime Video

Twisty where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

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The Uninvited
1944 · dir. Lewis Allen
🍅 95%★ 7.2mystery · horror · fantasy

One thread runs through both: cat

The difference: Easier on the loneliness than Cat People

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 price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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House on Haunted Hill
1959 · dir. William Castle
🍅 80%★ 6.7horror · mysteryPrime VideoMax

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.

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The Innocents
1961 · dir. Jack Clayton
🍅 95%★ 7.7horror · mystery

Twisty horror in both cases

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971 · dir. John D. Hancock
🍅 50%★ 6.4horror · mystery · drama

Common ground: isolation

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

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Scream 3
2000 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 45%★ 5.7horror · mysteryHuluParamount+

Romance built on loneliness, twice over

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 · dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · romance

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

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Pulse
2001 · dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
🍅 76%★ 6.6horror · thriller · mystery

Both lean on unease more than on mystery

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Cat People does

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

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Hour of the Wolf
1968 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 92%★ 7.5drama · horror

Lonely romance in both cases

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

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You're Next
2013 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 79%★ 6.6horror · thriller · mysteryPrime VideoStarz

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

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