Highest-Rated Movies about 'Science Gone Awry', Sort by Popularity

Regular Show: The Movie (2015), It Happens Every Spring (1949), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Island of Lost Souls (1933), The Devil Doll (1936), Spies in Disguise (2019), Endhiran (2010), From Beyond (1986) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Science Gone Awry movies.

#17. Rampage (2018)

Storyline: Athena-1, a space station owned by gene manipulation company Energyne, is destroyed after a laboratory rat mutates and wreaks havoc. Dr. Kerry Atkins, the lone surviving crew member, is ordered by CEO Claire Wyden to retrieve research canisters containing a pathogen. Atkins is able to flee in the escape pod when the station implodes, but due to damage from the rat it disintegrates upon re-entry, killing her. The falling pieces leave a trail of debris across the United States, including the Everglades in Florida, where a canister is consumed by an American crocodile, and a forest in Wyoming, where a gray wolf is exposed to the pathogen. Primatologist Davis Okoye, a former US Army Special Forces soldier and member of an anti-poaching unit, works at the San Diego Wildlife Sanctuary. He has befriended a rare albino western lowland gorilla named George, having saved him from poachers, and communicates with George using sign language and hand gestures. At night, one of the canisters ...

Plot Keywords: gorilla, wolf, scientist, giant crocodile, mutant, engineer, amusing ...

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#18. Push (2009)

Storyline: A group of young American ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities are hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency. They must utilize their different talents and band together for a final job enabling them to escape the agency forever.

Plot Keywords: fugitive, psychic, government agent, teen girl, father, love interest, thrilling ...

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#19. The Strongest Man in the World (1974)

Storyline: A school laboratory accident mixes one student's vitamin cereal mix with Dexter Riley's chemical experiment. When the kids decide to dispose of the mess to their neighbor's cow, they learn that the cereal gave the cow the super-strength to give a massively vast supply of milk. When they try it out on themselves, they discover that the stuff gives any human superhuman strength for a few minutes. The school sees this as the thing needed to save their school from closure, as the Dean makes a deal with his relative who owns the company that makes the cereal for financial support, unaware that it was Dexter's chemical which was solely responsible for the strength. When her competitor learn of this deal, he hires two criminals to stop it.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>

Plot Keywords: college student, college dean, criminal, thug, competitor, playful, amusing ...

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#20. Multiplicity (1996)

Storyline: Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds who offers him a rather unusual solution to his problems - cloning.

Plot Keywords: construction worker, wife, clone, child, scientist, lighthearted, madcap ...

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#21. Spook Busters (1946)

Storyline: The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.—Marty McKee <mmckee@soltec.net>

Plot Keywords: exterminator, friend, young man, wife, mad scientist, doctor, madcap ...

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#22. The Evil of Frankenstein (1964)

Storyline: Penniless, Baron Frankenstein, accompanied by his eager assistant Hans, arrives at his family castle near the town of Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature he was previously working on, he brings it back to a semblance of life but requires the services of a mesmerist, Zoltan, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and 'punish' the burgomaster and the chief of police, which acts lead to a violent confrontation between the baron and the townspeople.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: victor frankenstein, assistant, hypnotist, police chief, priest, monster, frightening ...

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#23. Office Uprising (2018)

Storyline: Desmond is an underachiever working at Ammotech, a major weapons manufacturing firm. However, Desmond soon discovers Zolt, a popular energy drink created by the military, has turned his boss and coworkers into violent psychopaths. Now Desmond must finally rise to the challenge in order to survive a building full of psychotic coworkers armed with the newest weaponry.

Plot Keywords: friend, zombie, coworker, slacker, office worker, amusing, intense ...

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#25. Crack in the World (1965)

Storyline: Dr. Stephen Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the earth. Despite dire warnings by fellow scientist Ted Rampion, Dr. Sorenson proceeds with the experiment after secretly learning that he is terminally ill. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the Earth in two if it is not stopped in time.—Teresa E. Tutt <tuttt@rpi.edu>

Plot Keywords: scientist, terminally ill person, geologist, doctor, ambassador, dying person, outlandish ...

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#26. Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

Storyline: Left to rot in prison for the past thirteen years after the blood-drenched events in Re-Animator (1985) and Bride of Re-Animator (1989), the misunderstood virtuoso of mayhem, Dr Herbert West, finds an unexpected ally in the person of the young medical doctor, Howard Phillips. Behind the thick walls of the impenetrable Arkham State Penitentiary, the blasphemous duo of dreamers set up a secret laboratory to test an entirely new reanimating serum, which--when combined with West's original phosphorescent reagent--can work miracles on the prison's inmates. Now, the stage seems set for the ultimate experiment; however, once more, this is easier said than done. Can the good doctors escape from this concrete pit of death?

Plot Keywords: mad scientist, prison official, reporter, doctor, cellmate, warden, offbeat ...

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#27. Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

Storyline: Colonel Reynolds and his group of government scientists continue their work on re-animating the dead for military use. His son Curt and his girlfriend Julie use Dad's security pass to sneak in and watch the proceedings. Later when father and son have a disagreement, Curt and Julie take off on a motorcycle and Julie is killed in an accident. Grief-stricken, Curt takes her body to the lab and brings her back to life. Curt must help Julie deal with her new existence as military agents and local gang members try to find them.

Plot Keywords: teenager, accident victim, military officer, zombie, monster, thrilling, gripping ...

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#28. The Return of Doctor X (1939)

Storyline: New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment - only the next day she showed up alive and threatened to sue the paper. Determined to investigate he discovers her involvement with a strange doctor who is an expert on human blood. Barnett then finds a connection to a series of gruesome murders where the victims were all found drained of blood.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>

Plot Keywords: news reporter, actress, mad scientist, undertaker, doctor, campy, creepy ...

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#29. Species (1995)

Storyline: In 1993, a search for extraterrestrial life, a transmission's recieved, detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye. Government agent Xavier Fitch assembles a team of scientists and mercenaries to locate and destroy Sil before she manages to find a mate and breed.

Plot Keywords: scientist, government agent, alien, shapeshifter, psychic, assassin, outlandish ...

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#30. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

Storyline: In 2021, the whole world is connected by the gigantic Internet, and almost a half of the population is suffering from the Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS).Johnny with an inplanted memory chip in his brain was ordered to transport the over loaded information from Beijing to Newark. While Pharmakom Industries supported by yakuza tries to capture him to get the informaiton back, the Low-tech group led by J-Bone tries to break the missing code to download the cure of NAS which Johnny carries.

Plot Keywords: courier, bodyguard, executive, hit man, yakuza member, dolphin, frenetic ...

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