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.

#3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

Storyline: At the story's heart is Caesar (Andy Serkis), a chimpanzee who gains human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug. Raised like a child by the drug's creator, Will Rodman (James Franco) and a primatologist Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto), Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and imprisoned in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno. Seeking justice for his fellow inmates, Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited. He then assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary - putting man and ape on a collision course that could change the planet forever.

Plot Keywords: scientist, father, chimpanzee, ceo, girlfriend, lab worker, gripping ...

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#4. Island of Lost Souls (1933)

Storyline: After his ship goes down, Edward Parker is rescued at sea. Parker gets into a fight with Captain Davies of the Apia and the Captain tosses him overboard while making a delivery to the tiny tropical island of Dr. Moreau. Parker discovers that Moreau has good reason to be so secretive on his lonely island. The doctor is a whip-cracking task master to a growing population of his own gruesome human/animal experiments. He does have one prize result, Lota the beautiful panther woman. Parker's fortunes for escape look up after his fiancée Ruth finds him with the help of fearless Captain Donohue. However, when Moreau's tribe of near-humans rises up to rebel, no one is safe...—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>

Plot Keywords: shipwreck survivor, creature, mutant, fiancé, eerie, creepy, campy ...

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#5. The Devil Doll (1936)

Storyline: Paul Lavond was a respected banker in Paris when he was framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond however is consumed with hatred for the men who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>

Plot Keywords: innocent man, scientist, widow, daughter, son-in-law, assistant, creepy ...

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#6. Spies in Disguise (2019)

Storyline: Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can't learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril.—krmanirethnam

Plot Keywords: spy, scientist, villain, rival, hero, bird, amusing ...

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#7. Endhiran (2010)

Storyline: After countless weeks of seclusion in his laboratory, the brilliant Dr. Vaseegaran (Rajnikanth) emerges with his latest invention: Chitti (also Rajnikanth), an android created in his own image. But in the place of applause, Vaseegaran is greeted by the scornful gaze of his neglected fiancée, Sana (Aishwarya Rai). With the faithful Chitti at his side, the desperate Vaseegaran struggles to regain Sana's favor. But soon the robot-servant starts developing feelings for his master's beautiful love.

Plot Keywords: scientist, fiancée, android, gangster, police officer, hilarious, frenetic ...

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#8. From Beyond (1986)

Storyline: Dr. Edward Pretorius and his assistant, the physician Crawford Tillinghast, have developed the Resonator, a machine to stimulate the sixth sense through the pineal gland. When Crawford activates the apparatus, he sees creatures flying in the air and he summons Dr. Pretorius. The experiment goes out of control and Dr. Pretorius refuses to turn off the Resonator. Meanwhile their neighbor calls the police, and when the police officers arrive, they see Crawford trying to escape from his house and Dr. Pretorius beheaded. Crawford is sent to a mental institution under the supervision of the sadistic Dr. Bloch. However, the prominent psychiatrist Dr. Katherine McMichaels requests the custody of Crawford and Detective Bubba Brownlee that is investigating the case stays with them. Katherine goes with Crawford and Bubba to see the Resonator and turns the machine on. Dr. Pretorius returns in a mutant shape and attacks them, in the beginning of a gore night with weird life forms.

Plot Keywords: apprentice, scientist, psychiatrist, police detective, creature, gory, frightening ...

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#9. Weird Science (1985)

Storyline: Two unpopular teenagers, Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to becoming accepted, they encounter many hilarious obstacles, which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.

Plot Keywords: nerd, best friend, dream girl, older brother, teen girl, bully, madcap ...

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#10. Ground Zero (1987)

Storyline: A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: photographer, scientist, aborigine, hermit, chilling, intricate, somber ...

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#11. Shivers (1975)

Storyline: A scientist living in an apartment complex kills a girl and uses acid to destroy her internal organs, and then kills himself. While investigating, a doctor discovers that the scientist was doing experiments on the use of genetically engineered parasites as organ transplants. Soon, other people in the complex begin showing signs of carrying the parasites, spreading the things through wanton orgiastic abandon, and the complex begins suffering an attrition problem.

Plot Keywords: doctor, nurse, scientist, real estate agent, tenant, police detective, gory ...

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#12. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)

Storyline: After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

Plot Keywords: inventor, businessman, father, love interest, friend, lighthearted, amusing ...

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#13. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

Storyline: In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>

Plot Keywords: mad scientist, medical student, girlfriend, friend, mother, ape, dark ...

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#14. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

Storyline: Years after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice is on her own; aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her, she is struggling to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker and head researcher Dr. Isaacs. Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera, L.J., and new survivors K-Mart, Claire Redfield, and Nurse Betty must fight to survive extinction against hordes of zombies, killer crows and the most terrifying creatures created as a result of the deadly T-Virus that has killed millions.

Plot Keywords: zombie, ceo, survivor, heroine, doctor, nurse, thrilling ...

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#15. Total Recall (2012)

Storyline: Originally adapted by director Paul Verhoeven in 1990, author Philip K. Dick's classic Sci-Fi short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale returns to the big screen in this remake starring Colin Farrell, Bryan Cranston, and Kate Beckinsale, and directed by Underworld's Len Wiseman. The planet has been decimated by nuclear war in the late 21st century, leaving only two nations -- the United Federation of Britain and the Colony. Douglas Quaid (Farrell) is a factory worker with a stable job and a loving wife (Beckinsale), but upon learning that a company named Rekall could grant him the memory of the ultimate espionage adventure, he decides that a virtual vacation is better than no vacation at all. But in the midst of having the new memories implanted, something goes haywire. Still strapped to the chair as the system breaks down, he's branded a spy as the authorities close in, and quickly flees for his life. Later, Quaid discovers that he has a secret identity, and he joins forces ...

Plot Keywords: factory worker, wife, rebel fighter, prostitute, scientist, leader, thrilling ...

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