20 movies like The Brain That Wouldn't Die, ordered by similarity : The Curse of Frankenstein(1957), Son of Frankenstein(1939), Grindhouse(2007), Upgrade(2018), Splice(2009), Frankenstein(2015), Before I Hang(1940), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1931), Island of Lost Souls(1933), Tales of Halloween(2015), Murders in the Rue Morgue(1932), Halloween(2018) ...
Horror
USA
1962
81 Minutes
Jason Evers Virginia Leith Adele Lamont Paula Maurice Bruce Brighton Doris Brent Leslie Daniels Bonnie Shari Lola Mason Audrey Devereau
doctor scientist fiancée murderer mutant monster campy melodramatic outlandish gory suburb laboratory car basement head transplants murder experiments medicine science gone awry creatures
A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.
Horror
UK
1957
83 Minutes
Peter Cushing Christopher Lee Hazel Court Robert Urquhart Valerie Gaunt Noel Hood
frankenstein's monster scientist friend baron fiancée eerie brooding gory england castle laboratory scientific experiments monsters murder resurrection playing god obsession discovery quest revenge
While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.
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, Action
USA|Canada
2007
191 Minutes
Kurt Russell Rose McGowan Freddy Rodriguez Marlee Shelton Sydney Poitier Naveen Andrews Vanessa Ferlito Jordan Ladd Josh Brolin Michael Biehn
zombie scientist dancer lieutenant murderer stuntman campy dark intense texas small town restaurant hospital tennessee car murder survival armed conflict cars showdown
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the '60s and '70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.
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.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada|USA
2015
90 Minutes
Carrie-Anne Moss Xavier Samuel Danny Huston Tony Todd Mckenna Grace Adam Nagaitis Maya Erskine Carol Anne Watts
monster husband wife mad scientist scientist frankenstein frankenstein's monster engaging shocking suspenseful sad powerful los angeles science creatures humanity life monsters discovery underdog
Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man - and the legend - we know today.
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
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
USA
1933
70 Minutes
Charles Laughton Bela Lugosi Richard Arlen Leila Hyams Kathleen Burke Arthur Hohl Stanley Fields Paul Hurst Hans Steinke Tetsu Komai George Irving
shipwreck survivor dr. moreau creature mutant fiancé eerie creepy campy island laboratory house of pain freighter genetic experiments genetic abnormalities strange happenings dictatorship science gone awry discovery mystery 1930s
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Horror, Comedy, Other
USA
2015
97 Minutes
Barry Bostwick Paul Solet Mike Mendez John Skipp Ryan Schifrin Darren Lynn Bousman Lin Shaye
ghost monster devil alien murderer suburbanite creepy brutal amusing suburb halloween party terror murder mystery 2010s
Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one night only to terrorize unsuspecting residents.
Horror
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Bela Lugosi Sidney Fox Leon Waycoff Bert Roach Brandon Hurst Noble Johnson D'Arcy Corrigan Arlene Francis Herman Bing
mad scientist medical student girlfriend friend mother ape dark disturbing creepy paris carnival street river laboratory medical experiments blood transfusion abduction murder science gone awry animal attack
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Other
USA|UK
2018
106 Minutes
Jamie Lee Curtis Judy Greer Andi Matichak Will Patton Virginia Gardner Nick Castle Haluk Bilginer James Jude Courtney Miles Robbins Dylan Arnold Drew Scheid
victim serial killer murderer rival psychopath creepy uneasy tense gory gripping thrilling haddonfield, ill. house forest mental institution suburb bus murder escape revenge
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Horror
1935
75 Minutes
Henry Hull Warner Oland Valerie Hobson Lester Matthews Lawrence Grant Spring Byington Clark Williams J.M. Kerrigan Charlotte Granville Ethel Griffies Zeffie Tilbury
botanist assistant wife scientist nephew police chief dark frightening melodramatic london laboratory street estate hotel tibet werewolves flowers murder investigation metamorphosis
An Asian werewolf (Warner Oland) bites a botanist (Henry Hull) in Tibet and rivals him for the antidote in London.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Other
USA
2018
89 Minutes
Amy Forsyth Reign Edwards Bex Taylor-Klaus Christian James Roby Attal Matt Mercurio Tony Todd Courtney Dietz
young woman boyfriend masked man serial killer murder victim murderer brooding uneasy gory thrilling disturbing bleak theme park festival car murder serial murders halloween escape trapped
A masked serial killer turns a horror-themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Italy
1975
126 Minutes
David Hemmings Daria Nicolodi Gabriele Lavia Clara Calamai Macha Méril Glauco Mauri Eros Pagni Giuliana Calandra
music teacher reporter killer creepy gory dark italy household murder mystery investigation serial murders quest mystery 1960s
A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
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
Mexico|USA
1971
83 Minutes
Kerwin Mathews Pier Angeli Jeff Morrow David Essex Jerome Guardino Robert Warner Read Morgan
scientist mutant monster native colleague creepy frightening outlandish mexico village boat laboratory radiation monsters scientific observation expedition destruction sea creatures metamorphosis escape
A team of researchers discovers a strange mutation of man and octopus who proceeds to terrorize them.
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1987
90 Minutes
Cristina Marsillach Urbano Barberini Daria Nicolodi Ian Charleson Antonella Vitale William McNamara
actress opera singer opera director murderer macbeth detective bleak brutal creepy dark intense frightening opera house stage apartment opera murder serial murders terror sadism
A hooded figure forces a young diva (Cristina Marsillach) to watch as he murders performers in a production of Verdi's opera "Macbeth."
Horror
UK|USA
1972
89 Minutes
Vincent Price Robert Quarry Valli Kemp Hugh Griffith John Thaw Keith Buckley Lewis Fiander Gerald Sim Milton Reid Peter Jeffrey John Cater
mad scientist assistant explorer lover inspector campy gory amusing egypt desert schemes murder resurrection exploration investigation science revenge rivalry quest 1920s
The vengeful doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.