Movies like House of Usher (1960)
The best movies like House of Usher (1960) are The Oblong Box (1969), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960) and The Comedy of Terrors (1964). If House of Usher hooked you with its horror and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBlack Sunday (1960)7.4/10 from 621 votes
- NewestTheatre of Blood (1973)Released 1973
The Oblong Box (1969)
Evil lurks in the gloomy house at Markham Manor where a deranged Sir Edward is the chained prisoner of his brother Julian. When Sir Edward escapes, he embarks on a monstrous killing spree, determined to seek revenge on all those whom he feels have double-crossed him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tell-Tale Heart (1960)
A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Comedy of Terrors (1964)
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Masque of the Red Death (1964)
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Haunted Palace (1963)
A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. Sardonicus (1961)
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement. When Cargrave arrives, he finds the masked baron is a cruel sadist who has threatened to harm Maude if he is not successfully cured.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Premature Burial (1962)
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Raven (1963)
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Brides of Dracula (1960)
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, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTales of Terror (1962)
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Whip and the Body (1963)
Disowned in the past by his father, Kurt Menliff, a cruel and sadistic nobleman, returns to the family castle to reclaim his inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mummy (1959)
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwice-Told Tales (1963)
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is inoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
The wealthy patriarch of the Sinclair family lives in mortal fear of being buried alive due to a rare condition that causes him to sometimes appear lifeless. After his death, relatives learn that his will stipulates a strict series of orders that must be followed in order to receive their inheritance. The family refuses to comply and the patriarch returns from the grave to exact revenge by killing each of them in the way they fear most.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Terror (1963)
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mummy's Shroud (1967)
Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited in a museum. By disturbing the sarcophagus they unleash the forces of darkness. The Mummy has returned to discharge a violent retribution on the defilers as the curse that surrounds the tomb begins to come true. One by one the explorers are murdered until one of them discovers the ancient words that have the power to reduce the brutal killer to particles of dust.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlack Sunday (1960)
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Evening of Edgar Allan Poe (1970)
Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The House That Screamed (1969)
Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the strict headmistress, whose protective shadow haunts Luis, her weak son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpirits of the Dead (1968)
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tingler (1959)
A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
In late 19th century London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStrait-Jacket (1964)
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTheatre of Blood (1973)
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Haunting (1963)
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 to confront the nature of its horror…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like House of Usher?
The closest matches to House of Usher are The Oblong Box (1969), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960) and The Comedy of Terrors (1964). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after House of Usher?
People who watched House of Usher most often go on to The Oblong Box (1969), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960) and The Comedy of Terrors (1964).
What is the highest-rated movie like House of Usher?
Black Sunday (1960), rated 7.4/10 by 621 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like House of Usher?
Theatre of Blood (1973) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like House of Usher?
Yes: The Oblong Box (1969), The Tell-Tale Heart (1960) and The Comedy of Terrors (1964).
How are movies similar to House of Usher chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside House of Usher, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.