50 Movies Like Fantasy Island (2020) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View Fantasy Island details →If you loved Fantasy Island (2020) by Jeff Wadlow, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are The Watchers, Legion, Wes Craven's New Nightmare. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
The Best Movies Similar to Fantasy Island
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with Fantasy Island in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
The Watchers
2024 · Ishana Night Shyamalan
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each ni
In common: Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
Legion
2010 · Scott Stewart
When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner w
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Wes Craven's New Nightmare
1994 · Wes Craven
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
In common: Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
2023 · André Øvredal
The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Final Destination Bloodlines
2025 · Zach Lipovsky
Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitab
In common: Horror · Mystery
Weapons
2025 · Zach Cregger
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Nosferatu
2024 · Robert Eggers
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Final Destination 2
2003 · David R. Ellis
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberl
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Final Destination
2009 · David R. Ellis
A horrifying premonition saves a young man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident but terrible fates await them nonetheless.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Final Destination 3
2006 · James Wong
High school senior Wendy's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself — which seeks out those who escaped their fate.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Night Swim
2024 · Bryce McGuire
Forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, former baseball player Ray Waller moves into a new house with his wife and two children. He hopes that the backyard swimming pool will be fun fo
In common: Horror · Mystery
Final Destination 5
2011 · Steven Quale
Death is just as omnipresent as ever, and is unleashed after one man’s premonition saves a group of coworkers from a terrifying suspension bridge collapse. But this group of unsuspecting souls was nev
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Exorcist III
1990 · William Peter Blatty
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified
In common: Horror · Mystery
Silent Hill
2006 · Christophe Gans
Rose, a desperate mother, takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears, and Rose embarks on a h
In common: Horror · Mystery
Seventh Son
2014 · Sergei Bodrov
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John
In common: Adventure · Fantasy
Priest
2011 · Scott Stewart
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 ci
In common: Fantasy · Horror
King Kong
1933 · Merian C. Cooper
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on
In common: Adventure · Fantasy · Horror
A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010 · Samuel Bayer
Teenagers Nancy, Quentin, Kris, Jesse and Dean are all neighborhood friends who begin having the same dream of a horribly disfigured man who wears a tattered sweater and a glove made of knives. The ma
In common: Horror · Mystery
Devil
2010 · John Erick Dowdle
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Ghost Ship
2002 · Steve Beck
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of biza
In common: Horror · Mystery
End of Days
1999 · Peter Hyams
Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he must do everything he can to save the woman and the world.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Underworld: Awakening
2012 · Måns Mårlind
Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-ou
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Death of a Unicorn
2025 · Alex Scharfman
A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Gremlins
1984 · Joe Dante
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · Lee Cronin
The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns int
In common: Horror · Mystery
Smile
2022 · Parker Finn
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Longlegs
2024 · Osgood Perkins
FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal
In common: Horror · Mystery
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992 · David Lynch
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experienc
In common: Horror · Mystery
Paranormal Activity
2007 · Oren Peli
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic but is certainly the most active
In common: Horror · Mystery
Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Tim Burton
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attri
In common: Fantasy · Horror · Mystery
The Medium
2021 · Banjong Pisanthanakun
A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Exorcist: Believer
2023 · David Gordon Green
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior re
In common: Horror
Lights Out
2016 · David F. Sandberg
Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.
In common: Horror
The Covenant
2006 · Renny Harlin
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threa
In common: Adventure · Fantasy
Never Let Go
2024 · Alexandre Aja
As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.
In common: Horror
Ne Zha
2019 · Jiao Zi
A young boy is born as the reincarnation of a demonic power, into a society that hates and fears him. Destined by prophecy to bring destruction to the world, Nezha must choose between good and evil to
In common: Adventure · Fantasy
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
2017 · Joachim Rønning
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salaz
In common: Adventure · Fantasy
Hellboy
2019 · Neil Marshall
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
In common: Adventure · Fantasy
Dead Silence
2007 · James Wan
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend
In common: Horror
The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · Michael Chaves
In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frigh
In common: Horror
Tarot
2024 · Spenser Cohen
When a group of friends recklessly violate the sacred rule of Tarot readings, they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate
In common: Horror
Pet Sematary
1989 · Mary Lambert
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
In common: Horror
Salem's Lot
2024 · Gary Dauberman
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire.
In common: Horror
Alice Through the Looking Glass
2016 · James Bobin
Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.
In common: Adventure · Fantasy
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
2010 · Luc Besson
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
In common: Adventure · Fantasy
The Conjuring: Last Rites
2025 · Michael Chaves
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren take on one last terrifying case involving mysterious entities they must confront.
In common: Horror
Berserk: The Golden Age Arc I - The Egg of the King
2012 · Toshiyuki Kubooka
Guts, an immensely strong sword-for-hire, has little direction in his life, simply fighting one battle after the next. However, this all changes suddenly when he meets and is bested by Griffith, a bea
In common: Adventure
Fountain of Youth
2025 · Guy Ritchie
A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a life-changing adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he'll need someone even smarter than he is: his estranged sister.
In common: Adventure · Fantasy · Mystery
Doctor Sleep
2019 · Mike Flanagan
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who posse
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Nosferatu
1922 · F. W. Murnau
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
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Breaking Bad
2008 · Michelle MacLaren
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
2023 · Kazutaka Yamanaka
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s m
Avatar: The Last Airbender
2005 · Michael Dante DiMartino
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
