Movies like Dracula
If Dracula's mix of monster, transylvania and vampire stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Dracula's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Black Cat
1934 · Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer · 65 min6.7
Why you'll like itWith Bela Lugosi and David Manners · Shares: black and white, pre-code · From the same decade (1930s)
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
1958 · Directed by Terence Fisher · 82 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: vampire, halloween, dracula
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.
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The Brides of Dracula
1960 · Directed by Terence Fisher · 82 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: vampire, halloween, castle
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace,…
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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968 · Directed by Freddie Francis · 92 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: vampire, superstition, castle
In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism.
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Van Helsing
2004 · Directed by Stephen Sommers · 132 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: transylvania, vampire, castle
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula.
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The Haunting
1963 · Directed by Robert Wise · 112 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, black and white
Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced…
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House on Haunted Hill
1959 · Directed by William Castle · 75 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: halloween, black and white
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
1983 · Directed by Jack Clayton · 95 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: spider, halloween
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
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Beauty and the Beast
2017 · Directed by Bill Condon · 129 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: transformation, castle
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
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The Curse of Frankenstein
1957 · Directed by Terence Fisher · 83 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: halloween
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
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Silver Bullet
1985 · Directed by Dan Attias · 95 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: halloween
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread.