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Movies that feel like Son of Frankenstein (1939)

If you loved Son of Frankenstein, the closest films we have are Island of Lost Souls (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931). All three share Son of Frankenstein's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rowland V. Leedreadunsettlingcerebral

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Frankenstein (1931) · Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

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

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

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

Two things both keep coming back to: murder and black and white

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

One thread runs through both: black and white

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Son of Frankenstein does

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Cerebral horror, and it commits to that

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

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

Both lean on dread more than on science fiction

The difference: None of the ideas Son of Frankenstein is built on

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

Unsettling horror in both cases

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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Creature from the Black Lagoon
1954 · dir. Jack Arnold
🍅 81%6.9adventure · horror · science fiction

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

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.

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

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

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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Seconds
1966 · dir. John Frankenheimer
🍅 79%7.6science fiction · thriller · horror

Both lean on unease more than on science fiction

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1960s show

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

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

Both run cerebral where it counts

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

Horror in the same key

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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