Movies Like Rusalia

If you liked Rusalia, a fantasy and horror movie directed by Horia Bazavan, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983)
★ 8.3/10Also horror and music
A night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies.
2
K-12 (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also fantasy and horror
Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets…
3
OPAL (2020)
★ 8.3/10Also horror and music
A curious girl investigates the cries she hears coming from a forbidden house across the street.
4
Ghosts (1997)
★ 8.1/10Also music and horror
In the town of Normal Valley, an eccentric magician named Maestro entertains the local children every day in his spooky mansion. One stormy night, the town's mayor leads a group of angry citizens to the mansion in an…
5
Nosferatu (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and fantasy
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
6
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3 (2014)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and fantasy
During a chicken picnic, Yellow Guy gets upset after Green Bird kills a butterfly. Yellow Guy then meets a butterfly that takes him on a journey to discover his concept of love.
7
Pumpkinhead (1988)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and horror
When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.
8
Southbound (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and horror
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister…
9
In the Lost Lands (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and horror
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.
10
Gretel & Hansel (2020)
★ 6/10Also horror and fantasy
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
11
Heavy Metal (1981)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and music
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
12
Underworld: Blood Wars (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and horror
Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans…
13
Mandy (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and horror
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and…
14
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also music and horror
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan — and those unable to fulfill their plans have their organs…
15
Priest (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and horror
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the…
16
Thinner (1996)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and horror
An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is…
17
The Nutcracker (1993)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and music
On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie falls asleep and dreams herself into a fantastic world in which her toys become larger than life. She meets up with the Nutcracker Prince who takes her on a journey to his…
18
Dolls (1987)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and horror
A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion.
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Trick or Treat (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and music
Eddie Weinbauer, a metalhead teen who is bullied at school, looks to his heavy metal superstar idol, Sammi Curr, for guidance. When Curr is killed in a hotel fire, Eddie becomes the recipient of the only copy of his…
20
Frankenstein (1910)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and fantasy
Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he…