Movies about mad scientists

Movies about mad scientists
List of the best films about mad scientists according to the audience: Alien Resurrection, House of the Dead, At the Earth's Core, Westworld, Amazon Women on the Moon, King of the Zombies, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, Chairman of the Board, Forbidden Planet, Electra.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:49

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

Markimdb: 2.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
Duration01:30

Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead... Prequel to the House of the Dead video games.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:29

A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a gunslinger robot goes berserk.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA

During World War II, a small plane somewhere over the Caribbean runs low on fuel and is blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The quick-witted yet easily-frightened manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

An atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle unfreezes a hibernating fictional dinosaur, a Rhedosaurus, that begins to wreak havoc in New York City.

Markimdb: 2.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A surfer becomes the head of a major company.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Japan
Duration01:38

Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrefantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA

Billionaire named Roach desperately searches for the secret serum which could turn an ordinary human into a superbeing...

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:59

Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can determine how to make him visible again. Caine's predicament eventually drives him mad, with terrifying results.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths

Markimdb: 4.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:05

A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda), the other of a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

When a fissure explosively opens in an English mud flat during a military exercise there, injuring one soldier and killing another, an American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Michael and Ellie break into a military junkyard to find a science project for Michael's class, and discover a strange glowing orb which absorbs electricity. When the orb begins to blend past, present, and future, its up to Michael and Ellie to stop the orb and save mankind.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Markimdb: 8
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

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 grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.

Markimdb: 2.5
Genrefantastic, comedy, family, crime
CountryGermany, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:31

Scientist hold talking, super-intelligent babies captive, but things take a turn for the worse when a mix-up occurs between a baby genius and its twin.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryUSA

The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of creating its own amino acids, thus obviating the need for food. They are then attacked by one of the leftover experiments and begin experiencing an attrition problem.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

A story about a brain surgeon who tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:30

When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Dr. van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the count.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, action, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.

Markimdb: 3.1
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryUSA

A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Dr. Jenny Langer and Dr. Vance from the NASA try to save the world.

Markimdb: 5
Genrefantastic, comedy, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

News producer, Tim O'Hara gets himself fired for unwillingly compromising his bosses' daughter during a live transmission. A little later, he witnesses the crashing of a small Martian spacecraft, realizing his one-time chance of delivering a story that will rock the earth. Since Tim took the original but scaled-down spaceship with him, the Martian follows him to retrieve it.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA

A virus from outer space transforms a bio-researcher into a blood thirsty monster. But chief, Dr.Vialini doesn't like the cops and public to be involved in this secret experiment. But he becomes lunch very soon.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantastic, comedy, family
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, France

Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic
CountryUSA
Duration01:20

Eccentric scientist Dr. Daniel and his shy assistant Max lead a quiet life on their space station, carrying out illegal research on androids, until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives one of whom is female. Both Dr. Daniel and Max show an interest in her, but one of the other visitors has more sinister intentions.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrecomedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

Bud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are actively involved in saving the environment, but the two friends couldn't care less about saving the Earth. One day, when a group of scientists begin a mission to live inside a "Bio-Dome" for a year without outside contact, Bud and Doyle mistakenly become part of the project themselves.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene Delambre, who tells him that she has just killed her husband, André. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that André invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber during the matter transference.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:15

A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Hong Kong, China, Canada, Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration02:29

After supervillain Shredder escapes custody, he joins forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and two dimwitted henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, to unleash a diabolical plan to take over the world. As the Turtles prepare to take on Shredder and his new crew, they find themselves facing an even greater evil with similar intentions: the notorious Krang.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, family
CountryGermany, USA

In 2005 Bruce Campbell directed his first ever feature film. The film stars Bruce Campbell as a wealthy CEO who travels to Bulgaria after the fall of communism. His plan was to do business for his U.S. drug company yet he is shortly caught up in some dirty situations and ends up with a brain transplant after his brain is severely damaged. Slapstick B-Movie science fiction on a low budget.

Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryUSA
Duration01:09

Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans....

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

Peyton and Barney are fun loving high school students working on a science project with white mice. When one of the mice begins to move food toward itself with out touching it, Barney finds he has accidently discovered a formula for telekinetic powers. Now, how much trouble can a high school boy who can move things with just his mind get into?

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

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.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.

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