20 movies like The Fly, ordered by similarity : Son of Frankenstein(1939), I Am Legend(2007), Before I Hang(1940), The Fly(1986), Upgrade(2018), Splice(2009), Only Lovers Left Alive(2013), Our House(2018), Dr. Cyclops(1940), Daybreakers(2009), Amelia 2.0(2017), The Endless(2017) ...
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, Sci-Fi, Drama
USA
2007
101 Minutes
Will Smith Alice Braga Dash Mihok Charlie Tahan Salli Richardson-Whitfield Willow Smith Darrell Foster April Grace Joanna Numata Samuel Glen James McCauley
scientist survivor dog mutant biologist dark gritty tense bleak thrilling frightening new york city apartment laboratory abandoned town street safe house death survival kidnapping
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
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, Action, Horror
USA|Australia
2018
95 Minutes
Logan Marshall-Green Betty Gabriel Harrison Gilbertson Christopher Kirby Benedict Hardie Melanie Vallejo Richard Cawthorne Clayton Jacobson Sachin Joab Michael M. Foster Linda Cropper
mugger paraplegic wife murderer doctor artificial intelligence brutal dark amusing gory gripping unrestrained parking lot hospital room laboratory house office car superhuman abilities revenge
Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when the world of Grey, a self-labeled technophobe, is turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant.
Sci-Fi, Horror
Canada|France|USA|Germany
2009
107 Minutes
Adrien Brody Sarah Polley Delphine Chaneac Simona Maicanescu David Hewlett Abigail Chu Brandon McGibbon Jonathan Payne
scientist creature husband wife brother boss thrilling offbeat melodramatic playful laboratory farm apartment woods barn science experiments unusual romance marriage evolution
Genetic engineers Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast hope to achieve fame by successfully splicing together the DNA of different animals to create new hybrid animals for medical use.
Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama, Horror, Fantasy
UK|Germany|Greece|France
2013
122 Minutes
Tilda Swinton Tom Hiddleston Anton Yelchin Mia Wasikowska John Hurt Jeffrey Wright Slimane Dazi Carter Logan Yasmine Hamdan Aurélie Thépaut
vampire musician married woman married man author sister bleak emotional melodramatic creative intense dark united states tangiers, morocco detroit house vampires relationships love depression
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror
Canada|USA|Germany
2018
91 Minutes
Thomas Mann Nicola Peltz Percy Hynes-White John Ralston Christine Horne Lucius Hoyos Allison Hossack Carlyn Burchell Robert B. Kennedy Kate Moyer Marcia Bennett
scientist younger brother younger sister dead person creepy chilling thrilling intense house bathroom garage grief siblings inventions ghosts mystery growing up love sacrifice 2010s
A young genius accidentally invents a device that amplifies the paranormal activity within his family's house, possibly bringing back the spirits of loved ones, and unleashing things far worse.
Sci-Fi
USA
1940
75 Minutes
Albert Van Dekker Janice Logan Thomas Coley Charles Halton Victor Kilian Frank Yaconelli Billy Wilkerson Allen Fox Paul Fix Frank Reicher
biologist scientist doctor mineralist professor servant chilling creepy amazon jungle laboratory house bedroom experiments biology madness murder self-sacrifice shrinking quest
A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.
Horror, Sci-Fi
Australia|USA
2009
98 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Peter Spierig Willem Dafoe Claudia Karvan Michael Dorman Vince Colosimo Sam Neill Isabel Lucas Paul Sonkkila
vampire human scientist fugitive dark chilling bleak laboratory hideout apartment plagues science dangerous assignment survival death quest pursuit future
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama
USA
2017
89 Minutes
Angela Billman Ben Whitehair Ed Begley Jr. Kate Vernon Eddie Jemison Debra Wilson Kamar de los Reyes Chris Ellis Malcolm Danare John Livingston Rachelle Carson
wife dying person police officer scientist android businessman emotional profound engaging fascinating ambulance classroom home for the blind house laboratory robotics grief experimental medicine family love
When the husband of a dying woman is approached by a corporation pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over human's relationship with technology.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
USA
2017
111 Minutes
Aaron Moorhead Aaron Moorhead Justin Benson Callie Hernandez Tate Ellington Lew Temple James Jordan Shane Brady Kira Powell Emily Montague Peter Cilella
brother cult leader cult member creature camper chilling dark thrilling intense suspenseful disturbing camp woods lake compound boat forest cult mystery mythical creatures
As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
USA
2019
91 Minutes
Elizabeth Banks David Denman Jackson A. Dunn Matt Jones Meredith Hagner Emmie Hunter Becky Wahlstrom Gregory Alan Williams Annie Humphrey Jennifer Holland Steve Agee
adopted son adoptive mother adoptive father classmate teacher waitress creepy uneasy frightening dark gory house farm school restaurant airplane evil child adoption mysterious deaths parent/child relationship
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Drama
South Africa|USA|Germany
2016
106 Minutes
Andrea Riseborough Steve Coogan Deon Lotz Robert Hobbs Garion Dowds Marcel van Heerden Nicola Hanekom Eduan van Jaarsveldt Carel Nel
lawyer prison guard judge wife murderer prisoner prisoners death row inmate brutal chilling emotional gripping intense moving powerful raw sad shocking south africa cape town
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror
Canada
2016
89 Minutes
Alanna LeVierge Nina Kiri Adam Christie Kate Fenton Michael Lipka Brooke Henderson Glen Reid Deborah Jayne Reilly Smith
bike messenger courier evil twin thrilling tense intense frightening disturbing dark hospital house accident recovery hallucinations science fiction horror metamorphosis escape 2010s
After a traumatic accident, a bike courier begins to experience blackouts and hallucinations. She soon discovers that she's being dangerously influenced and even controlled by her unborn twin.
Sci-Fi, Horror
USA
2006
93 Minutes
Christian Oliver Dean Stapleton Courtney Mace Jurgen Jones Thomas Buesch Philip Chidel
medical student mad scientist assistant disturbing dark cabin woods experiments death suicide identity immorality metamorphosis wretched excess 2000s
A doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing his assistant over and over and over again.
Kids & Family, Sci-Fi
USA
1957
85 Minutes
Richard Eyer Philip Abbott Diane Brewster Harold J. Stone Robert H. Harris Dennis McCarthy Alexander Lockwood John O'Malley
boy father scientist robot computer suspenseful fascinating endearing laboratory house science gone awry world domination technology experiments father/son relationship friendship discovery quest growing up 1950s
A ten-year-old boy and Robby the Robot team up to prevent a Super Computer from controlling the Earth from a satellite.
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, Comedy
Spain|USA
2003
93 Minutes
Jeffrey Combs Jason Barry Elsa Pataky Enrique Arce Simón Andreu Santiago Segura Tommy Dean Musset Bárbara Elorrieta Ángel Plana Javier Sandoval Lolo Herrero
mad scientist prison official reporter doctor cellmate warden offbeat dark thrilling amusing prison cell laboratory death reanimating the dead experiments survival science gone awry obsession discovery
After 13 years in prison, the mad scientist from Re-Animator (1985) gets a new chance to experiment with the arrival of a young prison doctor, who secretly hopes to learn to reanimate dead people. Good intentions turn to horror.
Horror
USA
1973
122 Minutes
Ellen Burstyn Linda Blair Max von Sydow Lee J. Cobb Kitty Winn Jack MacGowran Jason Miller Reverend William O'Malley Barton Heyman Peter Masterson Rudolf Schündler
priest actress psychiatrist doctor detective daughter creepy dark shocking frightening washington, d.c. iraq household bedroom house georgetown demonic possession catholicism mother/child relationship faith
When a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her.