Best movies like Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies related to Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam? Impart your expertise to navigate others toward films and tv series you've already seen that may also captivate them. Help increase the assembly of people bringing up videos amongst one another. We welcome your contribution!
Plot Summary:
Ernest P. Worrell grows a hand out of the top of his head and tries to destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, cult film
Best tv shows and movies like Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam (1985):
Similar in 83%
The Ernest Film Festival (1986)
Plot Summary:
Before he went to camp, before he went to jail, before he saved Christmas, before he was scared stupid, before he went to Africa and before he was in the army, Ernest P. Worrell hosted a variety of commercials, and a lot of them are here on this video. He even makes public service announcements. It also features many of his bloopers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 89%
Knowhutimean? Hey Vern, It's My Family Album (1983)
Plot Summary:
Ernest finds his old family album in the attic and discusses his family members from the album to his neighbor, Vern.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy
Similar in 90%
Terminal City Ricochet (1990)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Terminal City, a decaying world where the citizens wallow amidst a mind-boggling profusion of discarded consumer goods; a ruthless world where television is exploited to its fullest to sell yet more needless junk to eager consumers; a bewildering land where the unreal is real and the real, unreal. Alex Stevens is hurled into this bedlam where he finds himself pitted against the maniacal Ross Gilmore, Mayor of Terminal City, and the evil Bruce Coddle, agent of Gilmore's Social Peace Enforcement Unit.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: political, underground film, independent film, black comedy, cult film
Similar in 84%
Dickshark (2016)
Plot Summary:
A romantic couple get more than they expected after the husband's experiments with penis-enlargement cream go awry. Wait, this is not a porn story. Rather, it is an absurd science-fiction movie that features a curious new species, the Dickshark. In some ways this story asks the same questions that Mary Shelly did when she wrote "Frankenstein.".
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: absurd, erotic, horror comedy, independent film
Similar in 84%
Lobster Man from Mars (1989)
Plot Summary:
Young film student tries to sell his weird movie to a desperate film producer who is in need of a tax write-off. The producer screens the film "Lobster Man From Mars". What follows is one of the most bizarre and funny film within-a-film send-ups: Mars suffers from an air leakage, and send the dreaded Lobster Man to Earth to steal its air. The plot is foiled by a mad scientist, a girl, and an army colonel. The producer buys the movie, but it makes a huge profit and the producer is sent to jail, with the film student taking his place as the studio hot shot.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, retro, independent film, offbeat, humorous, epic, semi serious, psychotronic, spoof, cult film
Similar in 83%
The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in 'For Love or Mummy' (1999)
Plot Summary:
Bronson Pinchot does a nice job imitating Stan Laurel and Gailard Sartain gives a good appearance as Oliver Hardy, but the imitation does not extend to the original duo's comedy. The silly story line finds the two trying to protect a professor's daughter from a mummy that has been re-born.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 79%
Ganjasaurus Rex (1987)
Plot Summary:
A giant tyrannosaur terrorizes a band of California marijuana growers.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, cult film
Similar in 80%
Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
Plot Summary:
An evil scientist implants the brain of Michael, a murdered high school student, in an animatronic Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high school tormentors and is reunited with his sweetheart Tammy. Together, the couple try to elude the mad scientist and the police and find a more appropriate vessel for Michael's brain.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, funny, slasher, surreal, psychotronic, horror comedy, perverse, cult horror, dark drama, spooky
Similar in 86%
Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988)
Plot Summary:
Crazy old Professor Gangreen has developed a way to make tomatoes look human for a second invasion.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, spoof, cult classic, humorous, horror comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, mockbuster, classic horror
Similar in 79%
The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
Plot Summary:
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, not serious, crying, psychotronic, spoof, parody, light, romantic, sexy
Similar in 90%
The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
Plot Summary:
A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, humorous, independent film, scary, offbeat, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, spooky
Similar in 78%
Doin' Time on Planet Earth (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ryan Richmond is an eccentric teenager living with his mother, father, sister and brother in the Holiday Inn they own in Sunnyvale, Arizona, the prune capital of the world. Is it any wonder that he wants to go to Saudi Arabaia for college and leave Sunnyvale far, far behind? He spends his days at school with his sex-obsessed best friend Dan Forrester and lusts after Lisa Winston, the sexy lounge singer who his parents have hired to perform at the Holiday Inn. Stuck without a date for his brother's wedding to a senator's daughter, Ryan goes to a computer dating service, which asks him such questions as "Can you breathe foreign substances?" Soon, Ryan is told that he may be an alien stuck on Earth along with thousands of others. Soon, Charles and Edna Pinsky show up and tell him that he may an alien prince meant to lead his brethren home. And that's when things get out of control.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 81%
Heartbeeps (1981)
Plot Summary:
Heartbeeps stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as domestic robots who fall in love and run off together.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, surreal, humorous, semi serious
Similar in 87%
TerrorVision (1986)
Plot Summary:
A family's new satellite TV system starts receiving signals from another planet, and soon it becomes the passageway to an alien world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: horror comedy, cult horror, psychotronic, scary, slasher, funny, retro, independent film, black comedy, slapstick comedy
Similar in 87%
Get Smart, Again! (1989)
Plot Summary:
KAOS has invented a weather machine so Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 are called back into action to foil this evil plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: spoof, spy comedy, parody, exciting, offbeat, humorous, not serious, fast, comic
Similar in 80%
Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, scary, creepy, exciting, offbeat, feel good, weird
Similar in 83%
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over their assets. Secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) and millionaire Todd Armstrong set out to foil his fiendish plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick, humorous, grindhouse, spy comedy, exciting, offbeat, not serious, fast
Similar in 75%
Freaked (1993)
Plot Summary:
A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, stylized, psychotronic, surprise ending, brutal, absurd, black comedy, grindhouse
Similar in 81%
UHF (1989)
Plot Summary:
The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick, funny, cult classic, game show, humorous, slapstick comedy, hilarious, realistic
Similar in 81%
Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, epic, slapstick comedy, feel good, not serious, surprise ending, twist ending, parody, funny
Similar in 85%
Ernest Goes to Africa (1997)
Plot Summary:
The title says it all. There's a mix up involving stolen diamonds which Ernest has (naturally) made into a yo-yo and given to his would be girlfriend, Rene. But Rene wants a man of action, and doesn't think that Ernest fits the bill. After the bad guys come looking for the stolen diamonds and kidnap Rene, all of her fantasies come true as Ernest has to go to Africa to rescue her.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, feel good, semi serious, parody, funny, light, road movie, unusual plot structure, entertaining
Similar in 78%
Slam Dunk Ernest (1995)
Plot Summary:
Ernest P. Worrell becomes a basketball star after an angel bearing an uncanny resemblance to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gives him a pair of magic sneakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious
Similar in 75%
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Plot Summary:
Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, anthology, humorous, absurd, talky, stylized, not serious, witty, spoof
Similar in 87%
The Monitors (1969)
Plot Summary:
Earthlings chafe at the peace established by a benevolent alien race and set about to rebel.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 331
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, psychotronic
Similar in 88%
Flesh Gordon (1974)
Plot Summary:
Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football player Flesh Gordon. Along with his girlfriend Dale Ardor and Professor Flexi-Jerkoff, they set off towards the source of the Sex Ray, unaware of the perils that face them!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, erotic, independent film, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, not serious, psychotronic, sex comedy
Similar in 77%
Dark Star (1974)
Plot Summary:
A low-budget, sci-fi satire that focuses on a group of scientists whose mission is to destroy unstable planets. 20 years into their mission, they have battle their alien mascot, that resembles a beach ball, as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: futuristic, parody, grindhouse, philosophical, surreal, spoof, minimal cast, humorous, deep, space horror
Similar in 77%
Galaxina (1980)
Plot Summary:
Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, futuristic, psychotronic, spoof, erotic, grindhouse, anamorphic
Similar in 82%
Sleeper (1973)
Plot Summary:
Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: futuristic, surreal, slapstick, funny, cult classic, clever, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, psychotronic
Similar in 83%
Mars Attacks! (1996)
Plot Summary:
'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy homage to science fiction films of the '50s and '60s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 240000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, dark comedy, absurd, humorous, spoof, futuristic, funny, black comedy, stylized, melancholic
Similar in 81%
The Spirit of '76 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Future Americans decide to time travel to 1776 to ask the founding fathers for the solutions to their problems. A glitch in the time machine changes their destination to 1976. Still believing themselves to be in 1776, the time travellers attempt to study this "ideal" civilization. 70's jokes, props and stars abound.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, surreal, independent film, spoof, humorous, witty, not serious, parody