Movies like Extraordinary Tales (2015)
The best movies like Extraordinary Tales (2015) are The Theatre Bizarre (2011), Tales That Witness Madness (1973) and The Mortuary Collection (2020). If Extraordinary Tales hooked you with its horror and animation, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedVincent (1982)7.8/10 from 956 votes
- Newestundertone (2026)Released 2026
The Theatre Bizarre (2011)
Down a seedy city street in her neighborhood, young Enola Penny is obsessed with what appears to be a long abandoned theatre. One night, she sees that the front door is slightly ajar and impulsively decides to sneak inside. But there in the dark, decrepit auditorium, a show unlike any other unfolds before her eyes. Its host is an eerie human puppet named Peg Poett who will introduce Penny to six tales of the bizarre: A couple traveling in a remote part of the French Pyrenees cross paths with a lustful witch; A paranoid lover faces the wrath of a partner who has been pushed to her limit; The Freudian dreams of an unfaithful husband blur the lines between fantasy and reality; The horrors of the real world are interpreted through the mind of a child; A woman addicted to other people's memories gets her fix through the vitreous fluid of her victims' eyeballs; And a perverse obsession with sweets turns sour for a couple in too deep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTales That Witness Madness (1973)
Enigmatic asylum owner Dr Tremayne houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each patient went mad, be they a ritualistic 'luau', a time-travelling bicycle, a toy tiger, and a tree stump.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mortuary Collection (2020)
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisXX (2017)
This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKuso (2017)
Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAsylum (1972)
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisFelidae (1994)
A domestic house cat named Francis investigates the grisly feline murders taking place in his new neighborhood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTorture Garden (1967)
A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr Diabolo, to warn people of foreseeable evil. One by one, skeptics stand before the Fate Atropos to preview the greed and violence hiding behind their respectable façades.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNecronomicon (1993)
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrank & Zed (2020)
Featuring an all-puppet cast, Frank and Zed tells the story of a doomed village, whose King made a fateful deal to stop a demon from destroying the village years before. Now, as the prophecy comes true upon the King’s death, the villagers brace for an orgy of blood. Living in a destroyed castle not far from the village are Frank and Zed, a Frankenstein-type monster and his brain-eating companion. As the villagers prepare for their impending doom, the two monsters are pulled into a war of epic, puppet-mutilating proportions. This debut feature film by Jesse Blanchard is a hilarious tale of misguided fears, innocent brain consumption, and a loving friendship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Tales of Halloween (2015)
Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisGhost Stories (2018)
Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an abandoned asylum, a car accident deep in the woods and the spirit of an unborn child. Even scarier -- each of the macabre stories seems to have a sinister connection to the professor's own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTales from the Crypt (1972)
When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDead of Night (1945)
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies 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 & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Alphabet (1969)
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo Your Last Death (2019)
In order to save her siblings, a young woman takes on her father and the powerful entity known as Gamemaster, who ensnares humans into diabolical plots while her species gambles on the outcome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Vault of Horror (1973)
Five strangers trapped in a basement vault share their recurring nightmares: strange tales concerning family inheritance, obsessive neatness, east Indian mysticism, a life insurance scam, and an artist out for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe House That Dripped Blood (1971)
A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009)
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is an animated comedy that also combines elements of a horror and thriller film. It is based upon the comic book series created by Rob Zombie that follows the character of El Superbeasto and his sexy sidekick sister, Suzi-X, voiced by Sheri Moon, as they confront an evil villain by the name of Dr. Satan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCreepshow (1982)
Five grisly tales from a 1950s-style comic, including a murdered father rising from beyond, a bizarre meteor, a vengeful husband, a mysterious crate's occupant, and a plague of cockroaches.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMad God (2021)
A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVincent (1982)
Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams that annoy his mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSomething Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
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?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Innocents (1961)
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cellar (2022)
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse on Haunted Hill (1959)
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. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisundertone (2026)
The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Extraordinary Tales?
The closest matches to Extraordinary Tales are The Theatre Bizarre (2011), Tales That Witness Madness (1973) and The Mortuary Collection (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Extraordinary Tales?
People who watched Extraordinary Tales most often go on to The Theatre Bizarre (2011), Tales That Witness Madness (1973) and The Mortuary Collection (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like Extraordinary Tales?
Vincent (1982), rated 7.8/10 by 956 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Extraordinary Tales?
undertone (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Extraordinary Tales?
Yes: The Theatre Bizarre (2011), Tales That Witness Madness (1973) and The Mortuary Collection (2020).
How are movies similar to Extraordinary Tales chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Extraordinary Tales, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.