Mad scientist movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mad scientist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, scary, cult classic and serious films and TV shows about / with mad scientist, monster, disorder, danger, scientist, laboratory, escapades, experiment gone awry, supernatural and experiment plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Comedy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mad scientist: Re-Animator (1985), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), Victor Frankenstein (2015), Beyond Re-Animator (2003), The Black Hole (1979), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Fly (1986), The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962), The City of Lost Children (1995), Man's Best Friend (1993).

List of mad scientist movies

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 7.2
 71K
Re-Animator (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style: splatter, lovecraft, black comedy, scary, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, mad scientist, guts, hospital, gory, experiment, insanity, mad doctor, overdose, reanimated corpse, female nudity, laboratory ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: zurich switzerland, massachusetts, europe, austria
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a nearby villa, they are wooed into the clutches of a ...
Style: brutal, suspense, bloody, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: kidnapping, mad scientist, insanity, violence, body horror, victim, experiment gone awry, surgery, confined, evil doctor, psychopath, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, cult classic, medical horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: genetics, mad scientist, experiment, island, mutation, chaos and mayhem, dangerous animal, survival, mutant, experiment gone awry, stranded, brutality ...
Time: 90s, year 2010, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: indonesia, fictional island, pacific ocean
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Victor Frankenstein (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, stylized, light, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: monster, mad scientist, frankenstein, hunchback, frankenstein's monster, friendship, experiment gone awry, scientist, experiment, obsession, escapades, steampunk ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, future, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, scotland yard, usa, big ben london ...
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Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Once again tampering with mother nature to disastrous results, Dr. Herbert West continues his research while serving time in a maximum security prison for his previous exploits. West's limited prison-cell experiments are suddenly interrupted by ...
Style: scary, splatter, lovecraft, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: mad scientist, zombie, prison, undead, afterlife, insanity, survival, laboratory, monster, gory, experiment, doctor ...
Place: massachusetts
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 5.9
 28K
The Black Hole (1979)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The explorer craft U.S.S. Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the magnificent U.S.S. Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, outer space, mad scientist, space, robot, space opera, black hole, alien, astronaut, spacecraft, artificial intelligence, danger ...
Time: future, year 1979, 22nd century
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, black and white, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: castle, monster, mad scientist, frankenstein, experiment, supernatural, satire, frankenstein's monster, scientist, laboratory, hunchback, electricity ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, year 1974, 20th century, near future ...
Place: arizona, transylvania, europe, usa
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 7.6
 200K
The Fly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, mad scientist, body horror, transformation, science, mutation, mutant, gory, teleportation, creature, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal ...
Plot: mad scientist, mad doctor, laboratory, monster, zombie, experiment, macabre, surgery, danger, experiment gone awry, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, virginia
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The City of Lost Children (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, art house, stylized, gothic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: steampunk, good versus evil, trippy, goth, children, friendship, surrealism, cyberpunk, childhood, mad scientist, escape, distopia ...
Time: future
Place: france
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Man's Best Friend (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A dog turns from man's best friend into man's worst nightmare as he attacks everything that moves.
Style: scary, intense, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, killer dog, chase, gory, monster, dog attack, animal attack, dangerous animal, animal, dog, survival, animal experimentation ...
Time: 90s
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it's said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man's Dark Self. The obsessive experiments to isolate ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, mad doctor, split personality, mad scientist, alter ego, serial killer, obsession, investigation, danger, criminal heroes, legal, doctor patient relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
Style: lovecraft, black comedy, splatter, horror comedy, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, zombie, gory, laboratory, stop motion, reanimation, hospital, reanimated corpse, monster, undead, body horror, virus ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: massachusetts, south america, usa, peru
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 9.1
 595K
Rick and Morty (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: An animated series that follows the exploits of a super scientist and his not-so-bright grandson.
Style: adult animation, adult cartoon, entertaining, humorous, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: mad scientist, time travel, scientist, dark humor, prodigy, graphic violence, relatives, grandfather grandson relationship, family relations, youth, satire, imaginary ...
Time: 2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.4
 256K
Fringe (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, surreal, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, investigation, mad scientist, time travel, parallel universe, fbi, alternate dimension, top secret, alternate reality, experiment, danger, paranormal activity ...
Time: 2000s, future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: harvard university, usa, massachusetts, boston
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Curse of the Fly (1965)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Remember that scientist that was trying to perfect a matter transportation machine but got fused with a fly when one of the little critters got into the transporter with him? Well, this story is about three of his descendents (a son, Henri Delambre, ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, exciting, serious, black and white ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, experiment, disfigurement, laboratory, mental institution, experiment gone awry, danger, deadly creature, curse, monster, human monster, wedding ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, canada, montreal
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 5.4
 4K
Sssssss (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: David, a college student, is looking for a job. He is hired by Dr. Stoner as a lab assistant for his research and experiments on snakes. David also begins to fall for Stoner's young daughter, Kristina. However, the good doctor has secretly ...
Style: scary, stylized, suspenseful, grindhouse, natural horror ...
Plot: body horror, snake, laboratory, college student, mad scientist, killer animal, transformation, mutation, experiment, carnival, insanity, python ...
Time: 70s
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 6.6
 30K
From Beyond (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style: scary, lovecraft, demonic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, transformation, supernatural, monster, experiment, zombie, gory, laboratory, another dimension, murder, obsession ...
Time: year 2016
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Night of the Comet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous ...
Style: scary, black comedy, apocalyptic, parody, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: post apocalypse, zombie, end of the world, disaster, mad scientist, survival, teenager, radio station, dystopia, sister sister relationship, zombie attack, post apocalyptic ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
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The Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Victor Frankenstein, descendant of the infamous scientist, Baron Von Frankenstein, follows in his experimental footsteps. Initially his success involves the resuscitation of a tortoise and progressing onto more ambitious projects, including creating ...
Style: gothic horror, suspenseful, gothic, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: frankenstein, mad scientist, frankenstein's monster, laboratory, supernatural, monster, castle, doctor frankenstein, grave robbing, experiment gone awry, gory, escapades ...
Time: 60s
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Back to the Future Part III (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. ...
Style: light, futuristic, sentimental, not serious, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, mad scientist, changing the past or future, time, sent to the past, old west, time loop, inventor, parallel universe, time paradox, science ...
Time: 19th century, year 1955, 90s, 1950s, future ...
Place: space western, los angeles, california
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Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The setting is Carpathia. The year is 1851. When Elvira gets kicked out of an Inn for a slight monetary discrepancy, she is rescued by a local who takes her to stay at the castle in the hills high above the village. The fact that she happens to ...
Style: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: castle, ghost, mad scientist, supernatural, disorder, supernatural ability, danger, master and servant, cliche, curses spells and rituals, hypnosis, sex ...
Time: 1850s
Place: romania, paris france, france, europe
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Peter Parker is an outcast high schooler abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. As Peter ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, teen, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: superhero, mad scientist, good versus evil, super powers, revenge, teenage girl, superhuman powers, heroes, teenager, vigilante, spider, transformation ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 7.5
 702K
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still ...
Style: exciting, action packed, intense, saga, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: superhero, mad scientist, double life, superhuman powers, disguise, friendship, vigilante, fantasy world, multiverse, super villain, fight, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Remember the good old days when anyone with a camera and a few thousand bucks could schlep up to Bronson canyon and quickly make a cheap sci-fi/horror B-movie? Well, they're back! The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an affectionate, meticulous ...
Style: parody, humorous, talky, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, mad scientist, farce, dystopic future, science, monster, heroic mission, space travel, save the world, benign alien, alien encounter, danger ...
Time: 50s, year 2001, 20th century
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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
Style: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: island, mad scientist, isolation, hybrid, laboratory, experiment, experiment gone awry, violence, genetic engineering, human animal relationship, creature, confined ...
Time: 1900s
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (1966)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Dr. Frankenstein's Granddaughter Maria, and her brother assistant Rudolph, moved to the old west because the lightning storms there are more frequent and intense, which allows them to work on the experiments of their grandfather. But the ...
Style: suspense, scary, tense, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, frankenstein, rescue, experiment gone awry, danger, supernatural, mutant, chases and races, rivalry, frankenstein's monster, outlaw, family tradition ...
Time: year 1966, 19th century
Place: arizona, mexico
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 7.3
 292K
Megamind (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Bumbling supervillain Megamind finally defeats his nemesis, the superhero Metro Man. But without a hero, he loses all purpose and must find new meaning to his life.
Style: feel good, entertaining, computer animated, witty, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, preschool
Plot: superhero, villain, mad scientist, villain turns good, good versus evil, prison, superhuman powers, talking animal, anti hero, reporter, heroes, master villain ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the ...
Style: scary, parody, horror comedy, surprise ending, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, adult ...
Plot: monster, creature, mad scientist, skyscraper, gremlin, science runs amok, creature feature, electrocution, giant spider, satire, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 4.8
 63K
The Animal (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When loser Marvin Mange is involved in a horrible car accident, he's brought back to life by a deranged scientist as half man and half animal. His newfound powers are awesome -- but their adverse side effects could take over his life. Now, ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: organ donation, mad scientist, police investigation, experiment gone awry, animal, man beast, partner, animal life, goofy hero, flirting, chase, stoner ...
Time: year 2001
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