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Movies that feel like The Fly (1958)

If you loved The Fly, the closest films we have are The Thing from Another World (1951), Phase IV (1974) and Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). All three share The Fly's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 5 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.

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.

🍅 95% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Kurt Neumanncerebraldreadunsettlingcontemplative

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

The same mix in both: ideas, then dread

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

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

Both are built on the same subject: scientist

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: scientist

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as The Fly

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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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1931 · dir. Rouben Mamoulian
🍅 91%7.6horror · science fiction · drama

Both land unease and stillness at once

The difference: 27 years apart, and the 1930s show

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

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Fly

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

Both lean on dread more than on horror

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

Unsettling drama in both cases

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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Frankenstein
1931 · dir. James Whale
🍅 94%7.7drama · horror · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: experiment

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.

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

Common ground: mutation

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

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

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

Horror 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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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 87%7.4horror

One thread runs through both: experiment

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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