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Movies that feel like Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

If you loved Creature from the Black Lagoon, the closest films we have are The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Godzilla (1954) and The Invisible Man (1933). All three share Creature from the Black Lagoon's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Paramount Plus Premium and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jack Arnoldepicdreadunsettlingcerebral
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
1957 · dir. Jack Arnold
🍅 83%7.6science fiction · adventure · horror

Both are Jack Arnold's work, and they rhyme

A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.

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Godzilla
1954 · dir. Ishirō Honda
🍅 94%7.6thriller · horror · science fiction

Both are working the same pair: ship, black and white

The difference: Without the same scale

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

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The Invisible Man
1933 · dir. James Whale
🍅 95%7.6horror · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: scientist

The difference: Lighter on scale

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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The Fly
1958 · dir. Kurt Neumann
🍅 95%7.1science fiction · horror · drama

One thread runs through both: scientist

The difference: Played as drama first

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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Phase IV
1974 · dir. Saul Bass
🍅 50%6.4horror · science fiction

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

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

Common ground: black and white

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

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Son of Frankenstein
1939 · dir. Rowland V. Lee
🍅 95%7horror · science fiction

Cerebral horror, and it commits to that

One of the sons of late Dr. Henry Frankenstein finds his father's ghoulish creation in a coma and revives him, only to find out the monster is controlled by Ygor who is bent on revenge.

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Bride of Frankenstein
1935 · dir. James Whale
🍅 98%7.8horror · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: monster

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.

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

Dread-soaked science fiction in both cases

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

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Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957 · dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.
🍅 66%3.9science fiction · horror

Both lean on unease more than on adventure

In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

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Scanners
1981 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 69%6.7science fiction · horror

Horror built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%7.4science fiction · horror

Science fiction with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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