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Movies that feel likeThe Lure (2015)

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

If you loved The Lure, the closest films we have are Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017), Tumbbad (2018) and Tale of Tales (2015). All three share The Lure'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 Poison for the Fairies (1986).

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńskadreadunsettlingstylishdreamlike
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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%★ 6.9fantasy · horrorRent or buy

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less stylish than The Lure does

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%★ 8.2fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Both lean on dread more than on fantasy

The difference: Sits closer to romance than The Lure does

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Unsettling music in both cases

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Climax
2018 · dir. Gaspar Noé
🍅 68%★ 6.9drama · horror · musicPrime Video

Horror built on style, twice over

When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.

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Poison for the Fairies
1986 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2fantasy · horror

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

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

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.

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The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead
2018 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.4horror · fantasy · romancePrime Video

Common ground: mermaid

An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.

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

Both lean on dread more than on music

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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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%★ 6.4horrorPrime Video

Unsettling horror in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%★ 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

Music with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.7horror

Both working the same horror territory

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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Viy
1967 · dir. Georgi Kropachyov
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · horror

Both are fantasy through and through

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

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