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Movies that feel likeWhite Zombie (1932)

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.

If you loved White Zombie, the closest films we have are The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Mummy (1932) and The Black Cat (1934). All three share White Zombie'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).

🍅 77% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Victor Halperindreadunsettling
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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%★ 7.5horror

One thread runs through both: black and white

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

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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

The same two preoccupations: newlywed, and pre-code

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than White Zombie 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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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%★ 7.3horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Horror with a pulse of dread, 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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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

The difference: 34 years apart, and the 1960s show

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

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: pre-code

The difference: Sits closer to science fiction than White Zombie does

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

Common ground: black and white

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

Both lean on dread more than on horror

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

The shared currency is unease

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

Cut from the same horror cloth

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

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

Both working the same horror territory

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

Both play horror straight

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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