20 movies like The Monster Maker, ordered by similarity : Before I Hang(1940), The Fly(1986), Terror Birds(2016), The Fly(1958), Son of Frankenstein(1939), The Island of Dr. Moreau(1977), Overlord(2018), Awaiting(2015), Revenge of the Zombies(1943), The Devil Doll(1936), Die, Monster, Die!(1965), Black Friday(1940) ...
Horror
USA
1944
64 Minutes
mad scientist pianist daughter assistant manager henchman creepy shocking tense laboratory family home concert hall doctor's office scientific experiments mutation obsession blackmail assumed identity confrontation metamorphosis
A mad scientist injects his enemies with an acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
1940
71 Minutes
mad scientist doctor prisoner daughter police captain fiancé creepy dark eerie suspenseful prison laboratory house death row aging scientific experiments murder prison life euthanasia father/daughter relationship
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
Horror, Sci-Fi
USA|UK|Canada
1986
95 Minutes
Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis John Getz Joy Boushel Leslie Carlson George Chuvalo Michael Copeman David Cronenberg Carol Lazare Shawn Hewitt
scientist girlfriend reporter editor mutant creepy tense thrilling laboratory apartment clinic teleportation experiments mutation abortion relationships failure quest love fall
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Sci-Fi, Horror
USA
2016
87 Minutes
Jessica Lee Keller Lindsey Sporrer Greg Evigan Leslie Easterbrook Dillon Cavitt Evan Miller Sarah Joy Byington Heath Allyn
scientist daughter father bird friend millionaire brutal suspenseful thrilling shocking spectacular intense laboratory woods ranch wilderness home aviary horror killer animals
When Maddy Stern discovers her father has gone missing during a routine birdwatching excursion, she and her college pals trek out into the wilderness to find him, only to end up in a ... See full summary »
Horror, Sci-Fi
USA
1958
94 Minutes
Al Hedison Patricia Owens Vincent Price Herbert Marshall Kathleen Freeman Betty Lou Gerson Charles Herbert Eugene Borden Torben Meyer Harry Carter Charles Tannen
scientist wife brother son mutant inspector dark shocking canada laboratory household factory teleportation experiments family death housefly quest metamorphosis sacrifice
A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.
Horror
USA
1939
99 Minutes
Basil Rathbone Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Lionel Atwill Josephine Hutchinson Donnie Dunagan Emma Dunn Edgar Norton Perry Ivins Lawrence Grant Lionel Belmore
frankenstein's monster ygor scientist inspector wife son creepy dark thrilling family home castle frankenstein village laboratory graveyard family honor father/son relationship scientific experiments monsters murder vindication
Returning to the ancestral castle long after the death of the monster, the son of Dr. Frankenstein meets a mad shepherd who is hiding the comatose creature. To clear the family name, he revives the creature and tries to rehabilitate him.
Horror
USA
1977
98 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Michael York Barbara Carrera Nigel Davenport Richard Basehart Nick Cravat Fumio Demura Bob Ozman Gary Baxley John Gillespie David S. Cass Sr.
english gentleman doctor manservant creature assistant creepy tense outlandish island laboratory compound beach medical experiments romance shipwreck fear mutation investigation escape metamorphosis
A shipwrecked survivor discovers a remote island owned by a crazed scientist who is carrying out sinister experiments on the island's inhabitants.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Canada
2018
110 Minutes
Jovan Adepo Wyatt Russell Pilou Asbæk Mathilde Ollivier John Magaro Iain De Caestecker Jacob Anderson Dominic Applewhite Bokeem Woodbine Marc Rissmann
paratrooper enemy soldier nazi zombie scientist bleak creepy brutal gory thrilling suspenseful village laboratory office underground shelter airplane nazi occupation soldiers world war ii
A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
UK
2015
95 Minutes
Diana Vickers Tony Curran Rupert Hill Peter Woodward Adrian Bouchet Sophie Lovell Anderson
lawyer father daughter fiancée accident victim man bleak brutal intense suspenseful creepy dark house woods hideout horror accident father/daughter relationship murder tradition
Deep in the English moors, a sociopath preys on innocent people, until one day his secrets are finally revealed and an inevitable confrontation is at hand.
Horror
USA
1943
61 Minutes
John Carradine Robert Lowery Veda Ann Borg Gale Storm Mantan Moreland Mauritz Hugo Barry Macollum Bob Steele
brother private detective servant doctor secretary wife creepy spirited incredible louisiana family home laboratory dining room zombies scientific experiments nazism free will murder investigation pursuit
Scott Warrington and his hired detective, Larry Adams, arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp to meet his brother-in-law, Dr. Max von Altermann shortly after the death ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1936
79 Minutes
Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Frank Lawton Robert Greig Lucy Beaumont Henry B. Walthall
innocent man scientist widow daughter son-in-law assistant creepy eerie outlandish paris prison laboratory shrinking wrongful conviction prison break father/daughter relationship science gone awry accidental death sacrifice revenge
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror
UK
1965
78 Minutes
Boris Karloff Nick Adams Freda Jackson Suzan Farmer Terence de Marney Patrick Magee Paul Farrell Leslie Dwyer
scientist townsperson girlfriend father mother servant creepy offbeat intense estate england village mutation experiments science gone awry meteorite family transformation discovery love
A young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1940
70 Minutes
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Stanley Ridges Anne Nagel Anne Gwynne Virginia Brissac Edmund MacDonald Paul Fix Murray Alper Jack Mulhall Joe King
doctor professor mobster rival wife reporter tense creepy prison office street death row madness brain transplants organized crime murder death sentence mind control revenge pursuit
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Horror, Comedy
USA
2011
95 Minutes
Kristen Connolly Chris Hemsworth Anna Hutchison Fran Kranz Jesse Williams Richard Jenkins Bradley Whitford Brian J. White Amy Acker Tom Lenk Sigourney Weaver
college student friend girlfriend love interest zombie scientist frightening cheeky shocking tense amusing hilarious cabin forest outdoors cellar woods laboratory vacation isolation
Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Romance
UK|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Jessie Buckley Geraldine James Johnny Flynn Charley Palmer Rothwell Hattie Gotobed Shannon Tarbet Emily Taaffe Olwen Fouere Oliver Maltman Trystan Gravelle Tim Woodward
tour guide poacher police detective sister golfer uneasy tense suspenseful shocking intense gripping disturbing creepy island great britain murder murder accusation family sister relationship misfits
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
Horror
USA
2007
101 Minutes
A.J. Bowen Dan Bush Anessa Ramsey Justin Welborn Scott Poythress Sahr Ngaujah Cheri Christian Christopher Thomas Matt Stenton Suehyla El-Attar
lover woman man husband murderer maniac bleak frightening intense creepy shocking disturbing apartment science fiction lovers affair manipulation fear murder escape
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Comedy, Horror, Action
USA
2009
93 Minutes
Chris Marquette Brooke Nevin Ray Wise Bru Miller Wesley Thompson Jim Cody Williams Deborah Geffner Linda Park
slacker boss doctor nerd veteran father suspenseful hilarious creepy office street family home bomb shelter tunnel highway alien invasion friendship survival family cooperation
A slacker awakes to find himself weak and wrapped in a webbing; after realizing that the world has been taken over by giant alien insects, he wakes a ragtag group of strangers and together they fight for survival.
Horror
USA
1931
97 Minutes
Fredric March Miriam Hopkins Rose Hobart Holmes Herbert Halliwell Hobbes Edgar Norton Arnold Lucy Tempe Pigott Eric Wilton Douglas Walton John Rogers
scientist murderer lunatic sexy woman fiancée dark creepy gritty london england laboratory scientific experiments madness violence addiction discovery wretched excess metamorphosis 1880s
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2013
111 Minutes
Vera Farmiga Patrick Wilson Lili Taylor Ron Livingston Shanley Caswell Hayley McFarland Joey King Mackenzie Foy Kyla Deaver Shannon Kook John Brotherton
investigator demon hunter husband wife ghost daughter frightening suspenseful shocking tense creepy family home farmhouse rural community backyard paranormal ghosts haunted houses supernatural phenomenon ghost stories
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.
Horror
Iceland
2017
105 Minutes
Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson Thor Kristjansson Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir Anna Gunndís Guðmundsdóttir Sara Dögg Ásgeirsdóttir Þröstur Leó Gunnarsson Þór Tulinius Arnar Páll Harðarson
man wife friend child ghost missing person shocking brutal suspenseful thrilling emotional bleak iceland house church police station cellar cemetery horror family
A story about a young man and two women who move into a small abandoned town in Iceland to renovate an old house. Little do they know the town has a dark history.
Horror
1945
79 Minutes
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Henry Daniell Edith Atwater Russell Wade Paula Corday Sharyn Moffet Donna Lee
doctor assistant taxi driver woman young man grave robber brooding dark hedonistic tense laboratory cemetery house edinburgh, scotland corpse excavation medical experiments mysterious past murder blackmail rivalry
A carriage cabby (Boris Karloff) sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor (Henry Daniell) in 19th-century Edinburgh.