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10 Best Movies Like El Esqueleto

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

#1
Smiles of a Summer Night

Smiles of a Summer Night

1955★ 7.4

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

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly at...

#2
The Play House

The Play House

1921★ 6.8

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

Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works....

#3
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

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

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#4
Taxidermia

Taxidermia

2006★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El Esqueleto for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a...

#5
Jason X

Jason X

2001★ 4.9

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

In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned t...

#6
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers

1989★ 5.3

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

After lying in a coma for a year, Michael Myers awakens and stalks his way back to his small hometown in Illinois, intent on killing his niece, Jamie, who has been confined to a me...