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Movies that feel likeThe Wolf Man (1941)

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.

If you loved The Wolf Man, the closest films we have are The Mummy (1932), White Zombie (1932) and Dracula (1931). All three share The Wolf Man'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 The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Waggnerdreadunsettlingcontemplative
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The Mummy
1932 · dir. Karl Freund
🍅 90%★ 6.9horrorPeacock

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than The Wolf Man does

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

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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

The same preoccupation in both: transformation

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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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%★ 7.5horror

Both lean on unease more than on drama

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

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

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · dir. Rouben Mamoulian
🍅 91%★ 7.6horror · science fiction · dramaMax

Both are built on the same subject: transformation

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than The Wolf Man does

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · dir. Albert Lewin
🍅 94%★ 7.5drama · horror · fantasy

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than The Wolf Man does

A handsome young man trades his soul so that his portrait ages while he stays eternally young.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%★ 7.3drama · horrorPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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

Unsettling drama in both cases

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

Horror in the same key

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

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

A streak of stillness through both

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

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

Both play drama straight

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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