The Devil-Doll (1936)

The Devil-Doll (1936)

Unjustly imprisoned Paul Lavond (Lionel Barrymore), escapes from Devil’s Island with mad scientist, Marcel (Henry B. Walthall), who has discovered a way to reduce animals to one sixth their size. Marcel plans to use this to help humanity, but when he dies, Lavond teams up with Marcel’s wife, Malita (Rafaela Ottiano), supposedly to continue the work,

Doctor X (1932)

Doctor X (1932)

When the police inform Dr. Xavier (Lionel Atwill) that they suspect someone from his Academy of Surgical Research to be the cannibalistic Full Moon Killer, he requests time to do his own “scientific” inquiry, to avoid adverse publicity.  However, investigative reporter Lee Taylor (Lee Tracy) overhears the police, and writes a story, forcing Dr. Xavier

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932)

In the most Victorian of Victorian Englands, upstanding Dr. Jekyll (Fredric March) investigates the duel personality of man while waiting in frustration for his delayed wedding to Muriel Carew (Rose Hobart). Her father, Brigadier-General Danvers Carew (Halliwell Hobbes) insists they wait; he’s also not happy with Jekyll’s unorthodox theories. Jekyll’s attempt to separate man’s nature

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)

Another telling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale of a scientist (Spencer Tracy) who makes a potion to split apart the good and evil sides of man, and ends up with the murderous Mr. Hyde. What is more fun than hearing, over and over, debates between a googly-eyed doctor who claims that we are all made

Dragon Fighter (2002)

Dragon Fighter (2002)

David Carver (Dean Cain) becomes the new security officer at a secret underground cloning laboratory on the day they splice together ancient DNA to make a dragon.  The dragon grows to full size in a few hours, breaks free, and begins eating the scientists.  Trapped far below ground, Carver searches for a way to save

The Fly (1958)

The Fly (1958)

François Delambre (Vincent Price) receives a call from his sister-in-law, Helene (Patricia Owens), in which she hysterically confesses to killing her husband, Andre (David Hedison—as Al Hedison). The couple loved each other and had no problems, yet she compressed his head and hand in a press, and now refuses to say why. François discovers that before his

The Fly II (1989)

The Fly II (1989)

Martin Brundle (Eric Stoltz), the son of a scientist who accidentally mixed his DNA with a fly’s, is raised by corporate CEO Anton Bartok (Lee Richardson) as a science experiment. Martin, unaware of his past, grows to adulthood in five years and starts a relationship with Beth Logan (Daphne Zuniga). Then, his dormant mutations become active, and

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Commander John J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew travel to Altair-IV aboard their flying saucer to investigate the disappearance of the ship, Bellerophon, years earlier. They find that only Dr Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon) and his innocent daughter, Altaira (Anne Francis), have survived.  Morbius is studying the advanced machinery of a dead race, the Krell,

Frankenstein (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

In a near fevered state, Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) has abandoned his upper-class lifestyle, his fiancée Elizabeth (Mae Clarke), and medical school to carry out secret experiments aided only by the hunchback Fritz (Dwight Frye). His goal is to create a living creature from corpses, which he succeeds in doing the night he is visited

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.), the Wolf Man, is freed from his tomb by grave robbers. His search for a way to die takes him to the remains of the Frankenstein manor and the still-living Monster. The Frankenstein franchise had died a well-deserved death, having less than nothing of interest left (but they wouldn’t let

Frankenstein Reborn (2005)

Frankenstein Reborn (2005)

Arrested for multiple murders, scientist Victor Franks (Rhett Giles) tells the story of his experiments to a psychologist. He had developed nonobots for repairing and revitalizing tissue, but an error caused his subject to go insane. Frank killed him, and then brought him back, but what he got was a murderous monster. Did there need to be

Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

In 2031, scientist Joe Buchanan (John Hurt) makes a weapon that has the side effect of ripping holes in reality which may lead to other times or other universes. Buchanan is pulled through one of these tears to what appears to be the 1830s, where he meets Dr. Victor Frankenstein (Raul Julia) and his monster