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1. Poor Things (2023)
R | 141 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An account of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef
Votes: 267,813
2. Get Out (I) (2017)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener
Votes: 701,371 | Gross: $176.04M
3. Young Frankenstein (1974)
PG | 106 min | Comedy
An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle
Votes: 169,301 | Gross: $86.30M
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
PG | 76 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey
Votes: 376,066 | Gross: $75.08M
5. Frankenhooker (1990)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A medical student sets out to recreate his decapitated fiancée by building her a new body made of Manhattan street prostitutes.
Director: Frank Henenlotter | Stars: James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen, J.J. Clark
Votes: 13,610 | Gross: $0.21M
6. Frankenstein (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
Votes: 79,976
7. Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
PG-13 | 82 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
An evil scientist implants the brain of murdered high-school student Michael into a Tyrannosaurus. He escapes, wreaks vengeance on his high-school tormentors, and reunites with his sweetheart Tammy.
Director: Stewart Raffill | Stars: Denise Richards, Theo Forsett, Paul Walker, Ellen Dubin
Votes: 5,667
8. The Man with Two Brains (1983)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale whose life he saved, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go even more awry when he falls in love with a telepathic brain.
Director: Carl Reiner | Stars: Steve Martin, Kathleen Turner, David Warner, Paul Benedict
Votes: 27,943 | Gross: $10.10M
9. House of Frankenstein (1944)
Passed | 71 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A deranged scientist escapes from prison and recruits Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man to get revenge on his behalf.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lon Chaney Jr., J. Carrol Naish, John Carradine
Votes: 7,835
10. Deadly Friend (1986)
R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
After his friend is killed by her abusive father, the new kid in town attempts to save her by implanting a robotic microchip into her brain.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Matthew Labyorteaux, Kristy Swanson, Michael Sharrett, Anne Twomey
Votes: 8,772 | Gross: $8.99M
11. Gods and Monsters (1998)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama
The last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored.
Director: Bill Condon | Stars: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich
Votes: 32,820 | Gross: $6.39M
12. Soapdish (1991)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
An ambitious television soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Cathy Moriarty, Teri Hatcher
Votes: 17,702 | Gross: $36.49M
13. Wonder Women (1973)
PG | 82 min | Action, Crime, Horror
While looking into the disappearance of a jai alai athlete, an insurance investigator is targeted by the sexy all-girl army of rogue transplant surgeon Dr. Tsu.
Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Nancy Kwan, Ross Hagen, Maria De Aragon, Roberta Collins
Votes: 1,020
14. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Directors: Charles Barton, Walter Lantz | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi
Votes: 19,624 | Gross: $4.80M
15. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee
Votes: 12,688 | Gross: $17.44M
16. ABCs of Death 2 (2014)
Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Horror
Another 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
Directors: Rodney Ascher, Julian Barratt, Robert Boocheck, Alejandro Brugués, Kristina Buozyte, Alexandre Bustillo, Larry Fessenden, Julian Gilbey, Jim Hosking, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen, E.L. Katz, Aharon Keshales, Steven Kostanski, Marvin Kren, Juan Martínez Moreno, Erik Matti, Wolfgang Matzl, Julien Maury, Robert Morgan, Chris Nash, Vincenzo Natali, Hajime Ohata, Navot Papushado, Bill Plympton, Dennison Ramalho, Todd Rohal, Jerome Sable, Bruno Samper, Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska, Sôichi Umezawa | Stars: Eric Jacobus, Andy Nyman, Simon Barrett, Teela LaRoux
Votes: 9,164 | Gross: $0.01M
17. Head of the Family (1996)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Horror
The "head" of the family is literally that - a giant head on a tiny body, who psychically controls the rest of his even more unusual family.
Director: Charles Band | Stars: Blake Adams, Jacqueline Lovell, Bob Schott, James Jones
Votes: 2,691
18. Second Chance (I) (2016)
TV-14 | 42 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A billionaire bio-engineer brings a dead police officer back to life.
Stars: Robert Kazinsky, Dilshad Vadsaria, Adhir Kalyan, Ciara Bravo
Votes: 12,796
19. Boltneck (2000)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A student receives a serial killer's brain in a transplant after being thrown into a pool with no water in it.
Directors: Mitch Marcus, John Blush | Stars: Matthew Lawrence, Justin Walker, Christine Lakin, Christian Payne
Votes: 849
20. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Baron Frankenstein works with a mental patient to reanimate the dead.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse
Votes: 4,361 | Gross: $0.12M
21. Lady Frankenstein (1971)
R | 99 min | Horror
Baron Frankenstein's daughter and his assistant/her lover continue his experiments in an attempt to rebuild his legacy after he is killed by his psychotic, murderous first monster.
Directors: Mel Welles, Aureliano Luppi | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Rosalba Neri, Paul Muller, Marino Masé
Votes: 2,464
22. The Immortalizer (1989 Video)
R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed scientist sends out his mutant creations to kidnap young, beautiful men and women to bring back to his lab so he can replace their brains with those of old, wealthy people.
Director: Joel Bender | Stars: Ron Ray, Chris Crone, Clarke Lindsley, Melody Patterson
Votes: 550
23. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 6,143
24. Latitude Zero (1969)
G | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A journalist is saved by a giant submarine captained by a 200-year-old man who takes him to an underwater paradise city where no one ages. That's when monsters and mutants sent by the captain's rival, a 200-year-old scientist, attack.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Takarada, Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Richard Jaeckel
Votes: 1,046
25. Scream and Scream Again (1970)
R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London. The police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alfred Marks
Votes: 4,460 | Gross: $0.38M
26. The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Frankenstein's plans to replace the brain of his monster are hijacked by his scheming and malevolent assistant Ygor.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Lon Chaney Jr., Ralph Bellamy, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 7,125
27. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Baron Frankenstein, with the aid of a young doctor and his fiancée, kidnaps the mentally sick Dr. Brandt in order to perform the first brain transplant operation.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward
Votes: 5,303 | Gross: $0.10M
28. The Colossus of New York (1958)
Unrated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton
Votes: 1,249
29. Black Friday (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel
Votes: 2,888
30. Monstrosity (1963)
Unrated | 65 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A rich but unscrupulous old woman plots with a scientist to have her brain implanted in the skull of a sexy young woman.
Directors: Joseph V. Mascelli, Jack Pollexfen | Stars: Marjorie Eaton, Frank Gerstle, Frank Fowler, Erika Peters
Votes: 2,976
31. Who Is Julia? (1986 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 91 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Two young women's lives are changed forever in one moment. A strikingly beautiful and wealthy woman is hit by a truck and is all smashed up and nearly killed. At nearly the same time, a ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Grauman | Stars: Mare Winningham, Jameson Parker, Jeffrey DeMunn, Jonathan Banks
Votes: 275
32. Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
Approved | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Western
Dr. Maria Frankenstein transplants an artificial brain of her own creation into the skull of Jesse James' slow-witted friend Hank Tracy and names him Igor.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Lupton, Narda Onyx, Cal Bolder, Estelita Rodriguez
Votes: 2,084
33. Blood Relations (1988)
R | 90 min | Horror
Thomas takes his beautiful girlfriend to meet his crazy surgion father at a remote mansion and things get out of control a twist ending that will make you love this horror movie.
Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Jan Rubes, Kevin Hicks, Lydie Denier, Lynne Adams
Votes: 411
34. Frankenstein General Hospital (1988)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor puts together a new body by using body parts he steals from a mortuary at the hospital where he works.
Director: Deborah Romare | Stars: Mark Blankfield, Leslie Jordan, Jonathan Farwell, Kathy Shower
Votes: 405
35. The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 766
36. Doctor of Doom (1963)
77 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A mad scientist terrorizes a city by kidnapping young women with his ape-man Gomar and then using them as subjects in sadistic brain transplant experiments. A female wrestler whose sister ... See full summary »
Directors: René Cardona, Manuel San Fernando | Stars: Lorena Velázquez, Armando Silvestre, Elizabeth Campbell, Roberto Cañedo
Votes: 368
37. Brain of Blood (1971)
GP | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in ... See full summary »
Director: Al Adamson | Stars: Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, John Bloom, Regina Carrol
Votes: 1,006
38. Man with the Screaming Brain (2005)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.
Director: Bruce Campbell | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski, Ted Raimi, Antoinette Byron
Votes: 5,649
39. Re-Animated (2006 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 85 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Part live-action, part animated story about a boy who, after an awful amusement park accident, gets a brain transplant, which allows him to see cartoon characters in real life.
Director: Bruce Hurwit | Stars: Dominic Janes, Bil Dwyer, Rachel Quaintance, Rhea Lando
Votes: 788
40. Guinea Pig 6: Android of Notre Dame (1989 Video)
51 min | Horror
A dwarf scientist has his dreams frustrated when his sister becomes seriously ill. Determined to find a way to preserve the essence of his sister after the death, the scientist begins to use humans as guinea pigs in a bizarre experiment.
Director: Kazuhito Kuramoto | Stars: Toshihiko Hino, Mio Takaki, Tomorô Taguchi, Yumi Iori
Votes: 1,309
41. Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Passed | 61 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 1,044
42. Frankenstein's Aunt (1987)
53 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Aunt Frankenstein arrives to her nephew's castle to set things right and to clean the family name. Could she hope to work out the consensus between the angry villagers and the castle's supernatural inhabitants?
Stars: Viveca Lindfors, Martin Hreben, Gerhard Karzel, Barbara De Rossi
Votes: 329
43. Hauser's Memory (1970 TV Movie)
GP | 96 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: David McCallum, Susan Strasberg, Helmut Käutner, Leslie Nielsen
Votes: 135
44. The Frozen Dead (1966)
Unrated | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed scientist (Dana Andrews) keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
Director: Herbert J. Leder | Stars: Dana Andrews, Anna Palk, Philip Gilbert, Kathleen Breck
Votes: 1,065
45. You Are a Widow, Sir! (1971)
97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Olga Schoberová, Eduard Cupák, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 860
46. Mistress Frankenstein (2000 Video)
Unrated | 80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Dr. Victor Frankenstein neglects the sexual needs of his frigid and frustrated wife Helena. After Helena gets killed in a horse riding accident, Victor decides to bring her back to life. ... See full summary »
Director: Zachary Snygg | Stars: Darian Caine, Heidi Christine, Victoria Vega, Jessie Harcourt
Votes: 268
47. Female Mercenaries on Zombie Island (1995 Video)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A brilliant and beautiful female doctor has perfected brain transplant operations and uses that knowledge to give the old men in power new bodies. But unknown to them, she implants an ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Whitson | Stars: Pamela Sutch, Tina Krause, Laura Giglio, Kathy Steel
Votes: 154
48. The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
Approved | 66 min | Horror, Mystery
A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church but the crimes are baffling and involve strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human body.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 611
49. Terror Toons 2 (2007 Video)
76 min | Comedy, Horror
A girl gets a DVD entitled Terror Toons for her birthday. Meanwhile, "cartoon" characters Hansel and Gretel wander into the house of a witch who poisons them, but instead of dying, they ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Castro | Stars: Emma Bing, Bart Burson, Jonathan Kowalsky, Randy Wayne
Votes: 292
50. I Hate My Body (1974)
97 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The brain of a male engineer is transplanted into a female's body. He soon finds it very frustrating to cope with the daily sexist discrimination most women deal with. For example, he is ... See full summary »
Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Alexandra Bastedo, Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Gemma Cuervo, Manuel Zarzo
Votes: 129