Highest-Rated Movies about 'Deformity'

Spider Baby (1964), The Elephant Man (1980), Eraserhead (1977), Mad Love (1935), Dead Ringers (1988), Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933), The Brood (1979), Dr. Cyclops (1940) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Deformity movies.

#2. The Elephant Man (1980)

Storyline: Joseph "John" Merrick is an intelligent and friendly man, but he is hated by his Victorian-era English society because he is severely deformed. Once he is discovered by a doctor, however, he is saved from his life in a freak show and he is treated like the human being that he really is.

Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, humanity, society, medical, ethics ...

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#3. Eraserhead (1977)

Storyline: A film that defies conventional logic and storytelling, fueled by its dark nightmarish atmosphere and compellingly disturbing visuals. Henry Spencer is a hapless factory worker on his vacation when he finds out he's the father of a hideously deformed baby. Now living with his unhappy, malcontent girlfriend, the child cries day and night, driving Henry and his girlfriend to near insanity.

Plot Keywords: surrealism, psychological horror, body horror, black and white, experimental film, nightmarish, absurd ...

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#4. Mad Love (1935)

Storyline: In Paris, the great surgeon Dr. Gogol falls madly in love with stage actress Yvonne Orlac, and his ardor disturbs her quite a bit when he discovers to his horror that she is married to concert pianist Stephen Orlac. Shortly thereafter, Stephen's hands are badly crushed in a train accident- beyond the power of standard medicine. Knowing that his hands are his life, Yvonne overcomes her fear and goes to Dr. Gogol, to beg him to help. Gogol decides to surgically graft the hands of executed murderer Rollo onto Stephen Orlac, the surgery is successful but has terrible side-effects...—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, film noir, psychological thriller, romance, mystery, crime ...

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#5. Dead Ringers (1988)

Storyline: The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?

Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, horror, drama, twins, medical, mental breakdown, gender issues ...

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#6. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)

Storyline: In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum...and his 'children.' Years later, Igor starts a new museum in New York, but his maimed hands confine him to directing lesser artists. People begin disappearing (including a corpse from the morgue); Igor takes a sinister interest in Charlotte Duncan, fiancée of his assistant Ralph, but arouses the suspicions of Charlotte's roommate, wisecracking reporter Florence.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, thriller, crime, murder, detective, dark ...

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#7. The Brood (1979)

Storyline: A man's wife is under the care of an eccentric and unconventional psychologist who uses innovative and theatrical techniques to breach the psychological blocks in his patients. When their daughter comes back from a visit with her mother and is covered with bruises and welts, the father attempts to bar his wife from seeing the daughter but faces resistance from the secretive psychologist. Meanwhile, the wife's mother and father are attacked by strangely deformed children, and the man begins to suspect a connection with the psychologist's methods.

Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, body horror, canadian film, supernatural, mental illness, domestic violence ...

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#8. Dr. Cyclops (1940)

Storyline: Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.—Steve Hill <shill@harper.cc.il.us>

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, adventure, black and white, classic, scientist, madness ...

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#9. The Phantom of the Opera (1962)

Storyline: The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough) steals the life's work of the poor composer Professor L. Petrie. (Herbert Lom). In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petrie breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petrie returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>

Plot Keywords: horror, musical, romance, drama, mystery, classic, gothic ...

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#10. Doctor X (1932)

Storyline: A monster lurks as New York newspaperman Lee Taylor investigates one of the "Moon Killer" murders, in which the victims are strangled, cannibalized and surgically incised under the light of the full moon. The trail leads to the cliffside mansion of Dr. Xavier, where the doctor and his colleagues conduct a strange experiment.—Diana Hamilton <hamilton@gl.umbc.edu>

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, mystery, science fiction, film noir, detective ...

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#11. Basket Case (1982)

Storyline: Charming country bumpkin Duane Bradley takes a motel room in New York with a basket and a backpack. In a flash back-series we learn the basket contains his surgically removed Siamese twin who is not only physically deformed so badly the doctors hesitated to consider him a human, but is also the vindictive drive of their trip, with the purpose to kill off all those he blames. But in the reception of one of those doctors, Duane gets his first ever date, with the receptionist, and wants to start a positive life too - when the freak twin escapes, the scene is set for a grim finale.

Plot Keywords: horror, cult, independent film, low budget, monster, gore, surreal ...

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#12. Circus of Horrors (1960)

Storyline: In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show. The police and a nosy reporter (as well as Scotland Yard) become interested when the women who want out of the circus begin dying in freak accidents, and they begin suspecting the good doctor is responsible.—Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, circus, murder, psychological thriller, film noir, mystery ...

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#13. Wrong Turn (2003)

Storyline: Chris Flynn is driving his car for a job interview in another city. However, an accident with a trunk transporting chemical products blocks the highway and Chris looks for an alternative route through the mountains of West Virginia to accomplish his schedule. Due to a lack of attention, he crashes another car parked in the middle of the road with flat tires. Chris meets a group of five friends, who intended to camp in the forest, and they decide to leave the couple Francine and Evan on the place, while Chris, Jessie, Carly and her fiancé Scott tries to find some help. They find a weird cabin in the middle of nowhere, where three violent cannibalistic mountain men with the appearance of monsters live. The two couples try to escape from the mountain men while chased by them.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, survival, slaughter, forest, mutation, road movie ...

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#14. House of Wax (2005)

Storyline: Six friends are on their way to a football game. They decide to camp out for the night and continue driving the next day. The next day the friends find that they're having car troubles, so two of the friends accept a stranger's ride into a small town named Ambrose. The main attraction in Ambrose is the House of Wax. Except something is not right in this town, the wax figures are so realistic and the whole town is deserted - except for two murderous twin brothers. The six friends must fight to survive and escape from being the next exhibits in the House of Wax.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, crime, serial killer, teenagers, gory ...

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