Best movies like The Brain
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Plot Summary:
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Crime, Horror, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, medical horror
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The Darker Side of Terror (1979)
Plot Summary:
When a scientist at a research lab is passed over for a promotion, he creates a clone of himself to attempt to seduce the wife of the man who got the job.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, medical horror, spooky
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Dark Sun (1980)
Plot Summary:
A remake of Vávra's 1948 atomic age thriller Krakatit.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, modern day adaptation
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The Hidan of Maukbeiangjow (1973)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two apprentices who know more than their mentors. One is Kasper, who discovers the Hidan of Maukbeiangjow, to where six girls have been abducted. He is apprentice to Sam Trowel, whom Fred refers to as "private pig," an independent investigator who gets his mission information through a time-delay self-destruct tape (that is a parody of Mission: Impossible). The other is Prudence, a Christian spiritualist who is an apprentice to a wizard named Aph. Aph has had the impudence to use vodoun rituals to possess corpses with demonic earth spirits, or the spirits of extraterrestrials summoned from the Red Star galaxy. Fred and Junior tie up Prudence and a zombified girl named Rosebush while an alien learning to use the body of Ruthie, one of Trowel's operatives, keeps Kasper tied up while she guards whom she calls "the Prudence." The first alien brought by Aph eventually takes Trowel's body. He is intent to use Fred's safe-cracking skills to destroy evidence of his arrival.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, spoof, independent film, mystic, parody, bizarre
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The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)
Plot Summary:
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Horror, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: action thriller, neo noir, psychotronic, poliziottesco, eurospy
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Night of the Bloody Apes (1969)
Plot Summary:
A surgeon transplants the heart of an ape into his ailing son with horrific results.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, grindhouse, cult classic, terrifying, natural horror, detective, lovecraft
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The Cannibal in the Jungle (2015)
Plot Summary:
An American scientist who was convicted of killing and cannibalizing two colleagues in the jungles of Flores, Indonesia in 1977. Branded "The American Cannibal" by the press during his trial, Dr. Timothy Darrow defended himself by claiming a mythic human-ape creature was responsible for the murders. The news outlet documented an indigenous tribe on Flores, the very same island where the hobbit remains were discovered, which had its own accounts of little wild men that stood just over three feet tall, climbed trees, walked on two feet and thrived on cannibalism. And according to the local legend, those creatures may never have died out at all. Follow an expedition team deep into the heart of Flores Island to investigate Dr. Timothy Darrow's claims and find out once and for all if hobbits still exist in the deepest, most remote realms of the Indonesian jungle.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines, UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
Plot Summary:
A doctor (Bernie Casey) in a Watts clinic takes his own medicine and becomes a monstrous white killer of hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, black cinema, campy
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The Green Slime (1968)
Plot Summary:
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacled monsters that feed off electricity. Soon the station is crawling with them, and people are being zapped left and right!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Japan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, retro, suspense, medical horror, cult horror, scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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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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The Projected Man (1966)
Plot Summary:
Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic
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Spider in the Attic (2021)
Plot Summary:
A deadly nest of spiders lurk in the attic - And the nest is about to be awoken by a news reporter and her colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Henderson Monster (1980)
Plot Summary:
A small town becomes gripped by an ethical debate when the community discover a moody, egotistical scientist is experimenting with DNA and the creation of new life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Creature of Destruction (1968)
Plot Summary:
A resort hypnotist and his assistant predict murders, which she then commits as a fanged monster.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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In the Devil's Garden (1971)
Plot Summary:
After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a reporter from one of the local papers, and against the wishes of a psychologist at the local hospital, a young teacher at the school the girls attended uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out. Could it be the creepy husband of the head mistress at the school, the psychologist who seems to be taking an unusual interest in the case, or something altogether more sinister?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher, noir, detective, independent film, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic
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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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Curse of the Fly (1965)
Plot Summary:
Remember that scientist that was trying to perfect a matter transportation machine but got fused with a fly when one of the little critters got into the transporter with him? Well, this story is about three of his descendents (a son, Henri Delambre, played by Brian Donlevy and two grandsons). Seems the son wants to continue and perfect the machine while his two sons want to get out of the scientist business and live "normal" lives. The oldest son, Martin, decides to take a wife (who just happens to have escaped from a mental hospital after her parents died). Martin's father is not happy with this intrusion but finally gives in because he understands him son's needs. They all try to be a happy family until humans used in botched experiments are discovered by the new bride and the police nearly discover the lab while looking for Martin's wife. Everyone tries to get out of there via the transporter but things just don't go according to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, exciting, serious, black and white, natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, medical horror, classic 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 Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Plot Summary:
Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wrecks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, scary, psychotronic, suspense, medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, bleak
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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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What Waits in the Red (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Derelicts, The Physiologist and The Salesman. All are trapped; prisoners of circumstance. The Bell. A gateway to another place; the chance to escape. But at what cost? Each must give something in return, and risk coming face to face with What Waits in the Red. The choice is simple: Would you sell your soul to save your life?.
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IMDB Votes:
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychotronic, twisted
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Planets Around Us (1962)
Plot Summary:
An alien race sends cyborgs--made to look like the son of a famous scientist, whom they killed when he landed on their planet--to Earth to help pave the way for an invasion.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mysterious, psychotronic
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The Doctor and the Devils (1985)
Plot Summary:
Grave robbers supply a doctor with bodies to test on.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: gothic, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, medical horror, retro, scary, serious, slasher, realistic
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The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)
Plot Summary:
US Navy battles monsters unearthed from the frozen arctic.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, lovecraft, campy
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Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Plot Summary:
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, light, stylized, serious, suspenseful, touching, psychotronic, freeze frame, fairy tale
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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 Creeping Flesh (1973)
Plot Summary:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic, scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized
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Cyst (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the 1960s, a nurse's last day on her job is ruined when a doctor inadvertently creates a cyst monster that terrorizes the office.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 973
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, medical horror, weird
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The Fly II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, bloody, splatter, cult classic, psychedelic, heartbreaking, slasher, sad, tech noir, medical horror
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, medical horror, cult horror, mind bending
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Rejuvenator (1988)
Plot Summary:
A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, psychotronic, independent film