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Movies that feel likeThe Blob (1958)

A drive-in favorite, this sci-fi classic follows teenagers Steve and his best girl, Jane, as they try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, Steve and Jane witness the blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and policeman Dave refuses to believe the kids without proof.

If you loved The Blob, the closest films we have are Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957), The Fly (1958) and Son of Frankenstein (1939). All three share The Blob'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 Island of Lost Souls (1932).

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.dreadunsettlingcerebralwistful
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Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957 · dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.
🍅 66%★ 3.9science fiction · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Easier on the wistfulness than The Blob

In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

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The Fly
1958 · dir. Kurt Neumann
🍅 95%★ 7.1science fiction · horror · dramaPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

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Son of Frankenstein
1939 · dir. Rowland V. Lee
🍅 95%★ 7.1horror · science fiction

One thread runs through both: halloween

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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The Thing from Another World
1951 · dir. Christian Nyby
🍅 87%★ 7drama · horror · science fiction

Dread-soaked science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Blob does

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

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Phantasm
1979 · dir. Don Coscarelli
🍅 72%★ 6.6horror · science fictionPrime Video

Unsettling horror in both cases

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

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

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Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954 · dir. Jack Arnold
🍅 81%★ 6.9adventure · horror · science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

Both are built on the same subject: monster

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than The Blob does

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

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Phase IV
1974 · dir. Saul Bass
🍅 50%★ 6.4horror · science fiction

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%★ 7.3science fiction · horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

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

Common ground: small town life

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

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Seconds
1966 · dir. John Frankenheimer
🍅 79%★ 7.6science fiction · thriller · horror

Both lean on unease more than on science fiction

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: halloween

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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Scanners
1981 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 69%★ 6.7science fiction · horrorMax

Both sit in the same cerebral register

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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