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Movies that feel likeThe Phantom of the Opera (1925)

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

If you loved The Phantom of the Opera, the closest films we have are White Zombie (1932), The Mummy (1932) and Dracula (1931). All three share The Phantom of the Opera'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).

🍅 90% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rupert Juliandreadunsettling
10 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Amazon Prime Video · Peacock Premium

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

Common ground: 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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The Mummy
1932 · dir. Karl Freund
🍅 90%★ 6.9horrorPeacock

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%★ 7.3horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves and drives the agent to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

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

One thread runs through both: black and white

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

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

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

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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The Phantom Carriage
1921 · dir. Victor Sjöström
🍅 100%★ 8drama · fantasy · horror

Both are working the same pair: phantom, silent film

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Phantom of the Opera does

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Horror built on dread, twice over

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

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The Black Cat
1934 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 89%★ 6.9horror · thriller

Both work the same unease

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Phantom of the Opera does

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

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The Eye
2002 · dir. Oxide Pang
🍅 63%★ 6.6horror

Both working the same horror territory

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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The Wolf Man
1941 · dir. George Waggner
🍅 91%★ 7.2horror · dramaPeacock

Cut from the same horror cloth

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

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

Both play horror straight

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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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror

Horror approached the same way

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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