Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Young Frankenstein (1974), Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Frankenstein (1931), Eyes Without a Face - Les yeux sans visage (1959), The Invisible Man (1933), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), Island of Lost Souls (1933) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mad Scientist movies.
Storyline: In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka but accidentally bring the mummified body of her High Priest back to life. Three years later back in England a follower of the same Egyptian religion unleashes the mummy to exact grisly revenge on the despoilers of the sacred past.—J-26
Plot Keywords: horror, sci-fi, thriller, drama, mystery, suspense, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone. Experiments reveal his evil side, named Hyde. Experience teaches him how evil Hyde can be: he kills Ivy who earlier expressed interest in Jekyll and Sir Charles, Jekyll's fiancée's father.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, drama, psychological, gothic, dark, transformation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Buckaroo Banzai is caught with his trusted allies, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, in a battle to the death between evil red aliens and good black aliens from Planet 10. Led by demonic dictator John Whorfin, who has taken over the body of Italian scientist Dr. Emilio Lizardo, the aliens try to get the Overthruster back from Buckaroo Banzai. But the good black aliens are willing to destroy Earth rather than let these renegades return to their planet.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, adventure, comedy, action, superhero, cult film, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity to vote--via the "Punishment Poll"--for the penalty Sardonicus must pay for his deeds...—M.E. Nelson
Plot Keywords: horror, gothic, black-and-white, 1960s, psychological thriller, revenge, atmospheric ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nerd. Milquetoast. Klutz. These are just three of the many undesirable words that can be used to describe Professor Julius Kelp. But all that changes when the chemistry expert invents a potion that transforms him into a suave, sexy chick magnet, whom Julius aptly names Buddy Love. Unfortunately, there's one side effect: Buddy can't control when he'll change back into Julius, an event that always happens at inopportune times. How will Julius/Buddy resolve his Jekyll-and-Hyde dilemma?
Plot Keywords: comedy, science fiction, family, fantasy, romance, humor, transformation ...
Movie Details Click Here !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 ...
Movie Details Click Here !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 ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: horror, mystery, crime, thriller, classic, film noir, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1794, in the Arctic Sea, Captain Robert Walton is a man obsessed to reach the North Pole, pushing his crew to exhaustion. When his ship hits an iceberg, it is stranded in the ice. Out of the blue, Captain Walton and his men overhear a dreadful cry and they see a stranger coming to the ship. He introduces himself as Victor Frankenstein and he tells the Captain the story of his life since he was a little boy in Geneva. Victor is a barilliant student, and in love with his stepsister Elizabeth, an orphan that was raised by his father Baron Victor von Frankenstein. In 1793, Victor moves to Ingolstadt to study at the university, and he promises to get married to Elizabeth. At the university, Victor befriends Henry Clerval, who becomes his best friend. Victor gets close to Professor Waldman and decides to create life to cheat death, but Waldman advises him that he should not try this experiment, since the result would be an abomination. When Waldman dies, Victor steals his notes and tries...
Plot Keywords: horror, science fiction, monster, gothic, dark, tragedy, experiment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Recently widowed Doctor Michael Hfuhruhurr, the world's greatest neurosurgeon, injures Dolores Benedict in a car accident. He operates on her and saves her life using a technique of his own invention: cranial screw-top brain entry. As Benedict recovers, Hfuhruhurr falls in love with her and they are soon married. However, Benedict is only interested in Hfuhruhurr's money and Hfuhruhurr still yearns for his previous wife. They travel to Vienna to attend a medical conference where Hfuhruhurr finally divorces Dolores, meets a mysterious Doctor Alfred Necessiter and becomes entangled in a series of murders committed by The Elevator Killer.
Plot Keywords: comedy, science fiction, romance, absurd, black comedy, surreal, genius ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brain surgeon, rock musician, adventurer Buckaroo Banzai is a modern renaissance man and has made scientific history. Shifting the Oscillation Overthruster into warp speed, he's the first man to travel to the eighth dimension - and come back sane. But when his sworn enemy, the demented Dr. Emilio Lizardo, devises a plot to steal the device and bring an evil army back to destroy Earth, Buckaroo goes cranium to cranium with the madman in a battle that could spell doom for the universe. With the help of his uniquely qualified team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, Buckaroo is ready to save the world on a moment's notice.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, adventure, comedy, action, surreal, cult film, aliens ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Peru, Dr. Herbert West and Dr. Dan Cain are medical volunteers in a civil war with the assistant Francesca Danelli and they are researching how to create human life from dead tissue using wounded soldiers as guinea pigs. They return to Miskatonic Hospital and Dan treats a terminal patient, Gloria, and gets close to her. When the snoopy Lt. Leslie Chapham investigates the Miskatonic Massacre, he learns that body parts are missing in the morgue, and Herbert and Dan become his prime suspects. But Herbert kills the lieutenant and revives him with the serum. Meanwhile, Dr. Graves finds the head of Dr. Carl Hill and the green substance that the deceased doctor stole from Herbert, and uses the serum to resurrect Dr. Hill's head. When Gloria dies, Herbert and Dan use her head, with Meg's heart and parts of other women to create the perfect woman. But Lt. Chapham teams up with Dr. Hill to seek revenge against the crazy scientists.
Plot Keywords: horror, science fiction, comedy, black comedy, gore, cult film, sequel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bill Hopkins hosts a TV show called Truth Files, which deals with such topics of UFOs and government conspiracies. He is also haunted by reoccurring nightmarish dreams of UFOs and alien beings, in which he can't piece together. He later receives a mysterious package which contains a mini audio recorder with a message from a man, who claims to have been part of top secret Black Ops mission to the far side of the moon. Bill meets with the mysterious man, who claims that the moon is occupied by alien intelligence that have been monitoring us for thousands of years with an agenda for humanity.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, alien, experiment, military, mutation, monster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
Plot Keywords: horror, science fiction, crime, mystery, thriller, film noir, psychological horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: horror, science fiction, monster, gothic, dark, resurrection, laboratory ...
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