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10 Best Movies Like The Gate

If you loved The Gate, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Gate II

Gate II

1990★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gate for fans of Horror & Fantasy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

It's been five years since Terry's friend Glen discovered The Gate to hell in his backyard. Glen has now moved away and Terry begins practicing rituals in Glen's old house and even...

#2
Donovan's Brain

Donovan's Brain

1953★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gate for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflict...

#3
Memory of the Dead

Memory of the Dead

2013★ 4.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gate for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Forty-nine days after George’s death his wife, Alicia, calls friends who wanted to read over the letter that he left before he died. It is a very affectionate and moving letter, wh...

#4
Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer

1973★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gate for fans of Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral, and witnessing a murder....

#5
Seedpeople

Seedpeople

1992★ 4.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gate for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

The citizens of Comet Valley are being taken over by seeds from an alien plant that has taken root there. A sheriff investigates the strange goings-on....

#6
Prison

Prison

1987★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gate for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison i...