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Movies that feel like Frankenstein (1931)

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. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Paramount Plus Premium, Peacock Premium and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

🍅 94% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 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 fiction

Both are James Whale's work, and they rhyme

The difference: None of the stillness Frankenstein is built on

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 · drama

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%7.4science 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 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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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%7.3horror

The same two preoccupations: monster, and halloween

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

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

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

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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The Fly
1986 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 83%7.6horror · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: monster

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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White Zombie
1932 · dir. Victor Halperin
🍅 77%6.2horror

Both are built on the same subject: pre-code

A wealthy landowner living in Haiti convinces a sorcerer to lure the woman he has fallen for away from her fiancé. The madman later betrays their agreement by keeping the woman for himself…as a zombie.

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Re-Animator
1985 · dir. Stuart Gordon
🍅 88%7.1science fiction · comedy · horror

Common ground in both: reanimation and laboratory

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%7.5horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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