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Movies that feel likeFrankenstein (1931)

Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it flees into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc.

If you loved Frankenstein, the closest films we have are The Invisible Man (1933), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) and Island of Lost Souls (1932). All three share Frankenstein's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Old Dark House (1932).

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James Whalecontemplativedreadunsettlingcerebral
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Bride of Frankenstein (1935) · Son of Frankenstein (1939)

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The Invisible Man
1933 · dir. James Whale
🍅 95%★ 7.6horror · science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

Both are James Whale's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Trades the stillness of Frankenstein for an angle of its own

After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · dir. Rouben Mamoulian
🍅 91%★ 7.6horror · science fiction · dramaMax

Two things both keep coming back to: black and white and pre-code

Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men: one that is good and one that is evil. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%★ 7.3science fiction · horror

Common ground: mad doctor

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

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The Thing from Another World
1951 · dir. Christian Nyby
🍅 87%★ 7drama · horror · science fiction

One thread runs through both: black and white

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

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The Fly
1958 · dir. Kurt Neumann
🍅 95%★ 7.1science fiction · horror · dramaPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: experiment

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

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The Old Dark House
1932 · dir. James Whale
🍅 97%★ 7drama · horror · thriller

James Whale directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Frankenstein does

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · dir. Don Siegel
🍅 97%★ 7.7science fiction · horror · thrillerParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: angry mob

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%★ 7.3horrorPrime VideoPeacock

The same two preoccupations: monster, and halloween

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves and drives the agent to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

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The Host
2006 · dir. Bong Joon Ho
🍅 93%★ 7.1horror · drama · science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: monster

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

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The Fly
1986 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 82%★ 7.6horror · science fictionHuluPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: experiment

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1978 · dir. Philip Kaufman
🍅 93%★ 7.4science fiction · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

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The Wolf Man
1941 · dir. George Waggner
🍅 91%★ 7.2horror · dramaPeacock

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

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