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10 Best Movies Like The Gorilla

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

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#1
Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost

1941★ 6.8

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

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunte...

#2
Murder by Death

Murder by Death

1976★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gorilla for fans of Comedy & Mystery. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false i...

#3
The 'Burbs

The 'Burbs

1989★ 6.8

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

When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoing...

#4
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

1949★ 6.5

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

Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspect...

#5
Clue

Clue

1985★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gorilla for fans of Comedy & Mystery. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the k...

#6
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

1995★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Gorilla for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He mu...

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