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10 Best Movies Like Frankenstein '80

If you loved Frankenstein '80, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Night of the Creeps

Night of the Creeps

1986★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frankenstein '80 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the co...

#2
Donovan's Brain

Donovan's Brain

1953★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frankenstein '80 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic powers and inflict...

#3
Black Friday

Black Friday

1940★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frankenstein '80 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend ...

#4
Re-Animator

Re-Animator

1985★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frankenstein '80 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re...

#5
Frankenhooker

Frankenhooker

1990★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frankenstein '80 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the...

#6
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

1974★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Frankenstein '80 for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to em...

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