Highest-Rated Movies about 'Scientific Experiment'

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), The Thing (1982), Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978), Dark Matter (2007), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), Primer (2004), Altered States (1980), The Quiet Earth (1985) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Scientific Experiment movies.

#16. Victor Frankenstein (2015)

Storyline: James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in a dynamic and thrilling twist on a legendary tale. Radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protégé Igor Strausman (Radcliffe) share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their groundbreaking research into immortality. But Victor's experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation.

Plot Keywords: science fiction, horror, fantasy, dark fantasy, gothic, monster, resurrection ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#18. Mimic (1997)

Storyline: A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, thriller, creature, mystery, survival, dark ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#19. Underwater (2020)

Storyline: An unknown, massive earthquake happens in a drilling station in the bottom of the Marianna Trench. A scientific crew must find their way across the ocean floor into another station under the threats of deep pressure, dark water, dangerous deep-sea creatures, and a constant lack of oxygen.—joel

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, thriller, disaster, deep sea, monster, survival ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#20. Splice (2009)

Storyline: Two young rebellious scientists are told by their employers to halt groundbreaking work that has seen them produce new creatures with medical benefits by splicing together multiple organisms' DNA. They decide to secretly continue their work, but this time splicing in human DNA.

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, horror, genetic engineering, ethical dilemma, scientific experiment, artificial life ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#21. Fantastic Four (2005)

Storyline: Reed Richards, a brilliant but timid and bankrupt scientist, is convinced that evolution can be triggered by clouds of cosmic energy, and has calculated that Earth is going to pass one of these clouds soon. Together with his friend and partner, the gruff yet gentle astronaut muscle-man Ben Grimm, Reed convinces his conceited MIT classmate Dr. Victor Von Doom, now CEO of his own enterprise, to allow him access to his privately-owned space station. Von Doom agrees in exchange for control over the experiment and a majority of the profits from whatever benefits it brings. He thus brings aboard Susan Storm, his shy, though assertive chief genetics researcher and a former lover of Reed's with whom she had an acrimonious break-up, and her diametrically opposed brother Johnny, the maverick and hot-headed playboy pilot. The astronauts make it home intact; however, before long they begin to mutate, developing strange and amazing powers as a result of their exposure to the cloud! Reed is able to...

Plot Keywords: superhero, science fiction, action, adventure, teamwork, superpowers, origin story ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#23. The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Storyline: In the near future, there is an energy crisis on Earth. The Cloverfield Station with a multinational crew will test the Shepard particle accelerator expecting to generate energy for all countries solving the energy problem. However, the experiment goes wrong, damages the station and opens a portal to another dimension with a parallel Earth. They also find a woman entwined with wires behind a bulkhead of the station and they learn she worked in an identical Cloverfield Station in another dimension. Now the scientists need to find a way to return to their own dimension.

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, horror, disaster, space, parallel universe ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#25. The Invisible Boy (1957)

Storyline: Timmie is a typical ten-year-old boy: he loves fun and mischief and hates to study. When his scientist father, in an attempt to improve Timmie's mind, plops him in front of the Super Computer, the boy learns more than how to beat his dad at chess. With designs on world domination, the computer has Timmie reactivate Robby the Robot and directs the metal hulk to do his bidding. But while Robby is an efficient minion, can he be made to harm the boy who gave him life?—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>

Plot Keywords: science fiction, children, aliens, cold war, robots, family, adventure ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#26. The Thaw (2009)

Storyline: At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting rest of the world

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, thriller, disaster, mystery, survival, virus ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#27. Emergo (2011)

Storyline: A parapsychologist team are asked to investigate Apartment 143. The White family, who have lost their wife/mother in a car crash, have been experiencing strange things since they moved in to the apartment. But, they were also experiencing things at their old place. After the team set up their equipment, they get some compelling evidence on camera.

Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, haunted house, paranormal, mystery, thriller, investigation ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#28. The Happening (2008)

Storyline: Elliot Moore is a high school science teacher who quizzes his class one day about an article in the New York Times. It's about the sudden, mysterious disappearance of bees. Yet again Nature is doing something inexplicable, and whatever science has to say about it will be, in the end, only a theory. Scientists will bring out more theories, but no explanations, when a more urgent dilemma hits the planet. It begins in Central Park. Suddenly and inexplicably, the behavior of everyone in the park changes in a most bizarre and horrible way. Soon, the strange behavior spreads throughout the city and beyond. Elliot, his wife, Alma, and Jess, the young daughter of a friend, will only have theories to guide them where to run and where to hide. But theories may not be enough.

Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, science fiction, disaster, horror, psychological fear, survival ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#29. 2067 (2020)

Storyline: A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greatest environmental crisis yet.—Calmirio

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, future, time travel, climate change, apocalypse, survival, adventure ...

Movie Details Click Here !

#30. The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)

Storyline: Set in the year 2010, Dr. Moreau has successfully combined human and animal DNA to make a crossbreed animal. Well, as usual, something goes wrong and David Thewlis must try to stop it before it is too late. Originally rated R, but cut by Frankenheimer to allow "a wider audience".

Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, thriller, adventure, mystery, ethics, human nature ...

Movie Details Click Here !