Movies like Poison for the Fairies (1986)
The best movies like Poison for the Fairies (1986) are The Vampire (1957), Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) and The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963). If Poison for the Fairies hooked you with its fantasy and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMacario (1960)8.7/10 from 228 votes
- NewestDust Bunny (2025)Released 2025
- In SpanishThe Vampire (1957)Also in Spanish
The Vampire (1957)
A pretty young Mexican girl returns to her hometown to make funeral arrangements for her beloved aunt, who has just died. Soon she begins to hear disturbing stories about the town being infested by vampires, and she eventually begins to suspect that her remaining aunt and the mysterious next-door neighbor may be involved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEven the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Curse of the Crying Woman (1963)
A young woman inherits a mansion, only to discover that it is haunted by witches and evil spirits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Book of Stone (1969)
Julia, a governess, comes to work for a bourgeois family that lives in a forested property they have recently bought. Julia is to take care of a little girl named Silvia, whose unusual demeanor may find its roots in the family garden.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlucarda (1977)
After the death of her parents, young Justine is sent to live in a convent, where she meets and falls in love with the mysterious and macabre Alucarda. However, Alucarda has friends in low places... very low places. And a blood pact has just granted them entry to the church.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Skeleton of Mrs. Morales (1960)
A taxidermist decides to murder his wife after having to put up with her after twenty years of hellish marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Witch's Mirror (1962)
A husband murders his wife, and years later her ghost emerges from a witch's mirror to take her revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisCarnival of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLitan (1982)
Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does, she encounters stranger and stranger people and events erupting into a frenzy in front of her. Now, she and Jock must elude all of the impediments in their way of reaching safety on the outskirts of town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Suspiria (1977)
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHouse (1977)
Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)
Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMalpertuis (1972)
A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Moon (1975)
There is a global gender war between men and women. A teenage girl tries to escape this reality and arrives at a hidden place where a strange unicorn lives with a family: sister, brother, many children and an old, bedridden woman who stays in contact with the world through her radio.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMacario (1960)
Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him to share his turkey, but he refuses all except Death. In return, Death gives him a bottle of water which will heal any illness. Soon, Macario is more wealthy than the village doctor, which draws the attention of the feared Inquisition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisViy (1967)
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlacker Than the Night (1975)
When four women move into an old house left by one woman's aunt, strange things begin to happen. Bizarre voices, visions of ghosts, and mysterious noises lead them to discover the darkest powers of evil and a horror and agony beyond terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Long Hair of Death (1964)
In a 15th century village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWitch Hunt (1994)
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAt Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)
Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCemetery of Terror (1985)
On Halloween night, a group of bored teens decide to steal a corpse from the local morgue and take it to a nearby cemetery where they perform a Satanic ritual, unwittingly reviving a bloodthirsty serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWitch Hunt (2021)
In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDust Bunny (2025)
Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster under her bed that she claims ate her family. To protect her, he must battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting that some monsters are real.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Knight's War (2025)
A fearless knight braves a deadly realm to save the Chosen One’s soul. Facing witches, demons, and brutal foes, he discovers her return could ignite chaos and doom humanity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightbreed (1990)
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Harvest (2023)
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGinger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBelzebuth (2019)
While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Poison for the Fairies?
The closest matches to Poison for the Fairies are The Vampire (1957), Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) and The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Poison for the Fairies?
People who watched Poison for the Fairies most often go on to The Vampire (1957), Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) and The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963).
What is the highest-rated movie like Poison for the Fairies?
Macario (1960), rated 8.7/10 by 228 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Poison for the Fairies?
Dust Bunny (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Poison for the Fairies?
Yes: The Vampire (1957), Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968) and The Curse of the Crying Woman (1963).
How are movies similar to Poison for the Fairies chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Poison for the Fairies, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.