Best movies like Doctor Franken
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Plot Summary:
Manhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Army of Frankensteins (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young man travels back in time, finding himself entrenched in the Civil War with an army of Frankensteins.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 670
Genere: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: mockbuster
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The Man with Two Heads (1972)
Plot Summary:
Horror remake of "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Frankenstein '80 (1972)
Plot Summary:
A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, suspense, psychotronic
Similar in 75%
The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for his attacker: Dr. Cagliostro, a mad scientist who’s created a race of human-animal hybrids.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, medical horror, classic horror, erotic
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Frankenstein (2015)
Plot Summary:
After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: bloody, suspense, disturbing, medical horror
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Black Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiance) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black cinema, campy, cult film
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Frankenstein's Bloody Nightmare (2006)
Plot Summary:
Brilliant young Victor Karlstein finds himself lost in an abyss of personal turmoil and professional stress after the woman he most likely seemed to love dies while under the care of his own mysterious medical facility. Determined to keep her alive, Victor uses his mechanically-enhanced reanimated corpse to murder young women in order to furnish "raw parts" for her new body, among other devious things.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: suspense, art house, retro, psychedelic, expressionism, independent film
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Frankenstein General Hospital (1988)
Plot Summary:
A mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, crying, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, modern day adaptation
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Frankenstein (2007)
Plot Summary:
Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Frankenstein Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
A hot air balloon crew and a dog find themselves on an island with scantily-clad part-alien women, zombies, and other monsters.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, funny, medical horror, independent film, cult film
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Sawbones (1995)
Plot Summary:
An edgy, terrifying tale about an intern who failed medical school... but never gave up surgery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
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Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
Plot Summary:
When an atomic war on Mars destroys the planet's women, it's up to Martian Princess Marcuzan and her right-hand man Dr. Nadir to travel to earth and kidnap women for new breeding stock. Landing in Puerto Rico, they shoot down a NASA space capsule manned by an android. With his electronic brain damaged, the android terrorizes the island while the Martians raid beaches and pool parties.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, retro, freeze frame, scary, serious, fast, psychotronic, independent film, bizarre, campy
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006)
Plot Summary:
Tony Todd (Clive Barker's Candyman, Final Destination 2) is Dr. Henry Jekyll in this blood-drenched, modern adaptation of the macabre classic. Part crime thriller, part psychological horror, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde takes Robert Louis Stevenson's sinister story to chilling new depths as Mr. Hyde leaves a grisly trail while terrorizing local college co-eds. With the police bearing down on him, Mr. Hyde attacks Henry's fiancee in the demented denouement of this twisted tale that must be seen to be believed!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, slasher, psychotronic
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Project: Metalbeast (1995)
Plot Summary:
With the medical breakthrough of a metal-based synthetic skin called "bio-ferron" the prospect for pioneering surgeries for burn victims and cancer patients seems set to occur but for the warped head scientist in charge...it's a opportunist chance to reactivate a long forgotten classified project...that has been left frozen in a set of cryogenic chambers deep beneath the bowels of government laboratory. Convincing the other in the research team to start work on putting this living 'metal' skin on corpses, he now has the perfect test patients waiting on ice for them to work on. But there was a reason three of these stiffs in particular where left to chill. Due to an experiment gone bad these three only look human on the outside and none of them are as dead as everyone believes they are.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, cult horror, independent film, spooky, cult film
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The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Roger Girard is a rich scientist conducting experiments on head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny, who, although fully grown, has the mind of child. One day an escaped psycho-killer invades Girard's home, killing Danny's father before being gunned down himself. With the maniac dying and Danny deeply unsettled by his father's death, Dr. Girard decides to take the final step and transplant the killer's head onto Danny's body.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, absurd, disturbing, grindhouse, independent film, offbeat, semi serious, crying, psychotronic
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Frankenstein Reborn (2005)
Plot Summary:
The latest psychiatrist assigned to assess whether inmate Victor Frank is mentally fit to stand trial for murder gives up in frustration and so the asylum head Dr Robert Walton steps in to do the job. Frank tells Walton his story. He was a scientist experimenting in the field of nanotechnology. Using nanobots that were capable of rebuilding the human body, Frank and his team had great success in helping the crippled, wheelchair-ridden Bryce Daniels regain use of his faculties. But then Bryce started to become unstable.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: suspense, modern day adaptation
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Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Plot Summary:
A deformed tormented girl drowns herself after her lover is framed for murder and guillotined. Baron Frankenstein, experimenting with the transfer of souls, places the boy's soul into her body, bringing Christina back to life. Driven by revenge, she carries out a violent retribution on those responsible for both deaths.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, queer horror, scary, atmospheric
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The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Plot Summary:
Victor Frankenstein, descendant of the infamous scientist, Baron Von Frankenstein, follows in his experimental footsteps. Initially his success involves the resuscitation of a tortoise and progressing onto more ambitious projects, including creating his own monster. The gothic genre is re-worked to create a drama of black humour and farce.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, bleak, suspense, classic horror, touching, grindhouse, dark comedy, medical horror
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011)
Plot Summary:
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Urgent concerns of scientific responsibility, parental neglect, cognitive development and the nature of good and evil are embedded within this thrilling and deeply disturbing classic gothic tale.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: gothic
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Frankenstein (1984)
Plot Summary:
A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: gothic horror
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Frankenstein: The True Story (1973)
Plot Summary:
This much-requested, made-for-TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel stars Michael Sarrazin as the creature given life by Victor Frankenstein (Leonard Whiting), who witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he's duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori (James Mason). David McCallum, Jane Seymour, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud and Tom Baker also star.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, stylized, classic horror, spooky, psychotronic
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Cardiac Arrest (1979)
Plot Summary:
The "Missing Heart Murders" are plaguing San Francisco - dead bodies that turn up with their hears surgically removed! So a weak-stomached homicide cop looks into the possibilities of a black market for human organs, while across town a man must make a difficult decision regarding his wife, who needs a transplant.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, detective
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The Last Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Mary Shelley.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, exciting
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Plot Summary:
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, scary, suspenseful, gothic horror, classic horror, psychotronic, medical horror, terrifying, serious
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense, captivating, medical horror, classic horror, offbeat, talky
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Terror of Frankenstein (1977)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: scary, gothic, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Frankenstein (1992)
Plot Summary:
In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein (Patrick Bergin, Sleeping with the Enemy) discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation (Randy Quaid, National Lampoon’s Vacation) disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would perish in the wilderness, but now he senses that it’s alive and sets out for him. Dr. Frankenstein tracks the creature to the Arctic, where the two must battle to decide who will become the master of the other’s life…or death. “Nobody’s ever done a Frankenstein like this one and nobody’s ever done a better one” (Houston Chronicle).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, gothic horror
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The Prometheus Project (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young Scientists Elizabeth Burns explores the impact on the human body stem cells. A specific feature of these cells to interact with dead flesh has been subjected to blackmail heroine is forced to continue chilling experiments. Once she recovers just killed a man and begins a nightmare, whose name is Frankenstein Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film, scary, extraordinary, cult film
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Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Plot Summary:
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life. As the Baron's laboratory begins to fill up with stitched body parts, the Baroness dallies with the randy new manservant and soon the decadent, permissive household is consumed by an outrageous, bizarre, and hilarious orgy of death and dismemberment.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, sexy, gothic horror, scary, disturbing, grindhouse, terrifying, psychotronic, retro, bloody
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The Frankenstein Theory (2013)
Plot Summary:
From the makers of The Last Exorcism comes a boldly original vision of horror. What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, "Frankenstein," is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction...a nightmare from which there is no waking.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, mockumentary, grindhouse, fake documentary