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Movies that feel likeFantasy Island (2020)

A group of contest winners arrive at an island hotel to live out their dreams, only to find themselves trapped in nightmare scenarios.

If you loved Fantasy Island, the closest films we have are Malignant (2021), Scream (2022) and Good Manners (2018). All three share Fantasy Island's dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Dark Song (2016).

🍅 9% Rotten Tomatoes★ 4.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jeff Wadlowepicdreamlikedreadunsettlingtwisty
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Malignant
2021 · dir. James Wan
🍅 77%★ 6.2horror · mysteryRent or buy

Dreamlike and dread-soaked in the same breath

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

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Scream
2022 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 76%★ 6.3horror · mysteryParamount+

Both land unease and twists at once

The difference: Trades the scale of Fantasy Island for an angle of its own

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Marco Dutra
🍅 96%★ 6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the scale than Fantasy Island

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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The Medium
2021 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
🍅 83%★ 6.5horror · mysteryRent or buy

Common ground in both: supernatural and supernatural horror

A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.

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A Dark Song
2016 · dir. Liam Gavin
🍅 91%★ 6.2horror · fantasy · mystery

Common ground: supernatural

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%★ 5.5mystery · horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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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Truth or Dare
2018 · dir. Jeff Wadlow
🍅 16%★ 5.3thriller · horrorMax

The same hand behind both of them: Jeff Wadlow

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Fantasy Island does

A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.

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Forbidden Empire
2014 · dir. Oleg Stepchenko
★ 5.2thriller · adventure · mysteryPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dark fantasy

Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

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Paranormal Activity 2
2010 · dir. Tod Williams
🍅 58%★ 5.7horror · mysteryParamount+Peacock

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural horror

Just as Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

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Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%★ 5.2horror · mysteryHulu

Both lean on unease more than on mystery

Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.

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Red Riding Hood
2011 · dir. Catherine Hardwicke
🍅 10%★ 5.4mystery · fantasy · horrorMax

Adventure with a pulse of twists, in both cases

Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.

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A Classic Horror Story
2021 · dir. Roberto De Feo
🍅 55%★ 5.7horror · mysteryNetflix

Horror built on dread, twice over

Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.

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