Movies like Island of Terror (1966)
The best movies like Island of Terror (1966) are The Creeping Flesh (1973), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970). If Island of Terror hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Curse of Frankenstein (1957)6.8/10 from 366 votes
- NewestIsland of the Fishmen (1979)Released 1979
The Creeping Flesh (1973)
A Victorian scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones, unleashing a malevolent entity on the scientist's family and friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Horror of Frankenstein (1970)
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisHorror Express (1972)
Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil of Frankenstein (1964)
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFiend Without a Face (1958)
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
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 emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisX: The Unknown (1956)
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trollenberg Terror (1958)
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Conquered the World (1956)
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend's wife try to intervene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSnowbeast (1977)
A skier and his wife visit a friend's ski resort during a man beast's rampage, and must hide from the impending danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
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 excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Mole People (1956)
A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a five millennia-old mutant Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopatamia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Giant Behemoth (1959)
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Curse of the Fly (1965)
The son of the inventor of a matter-transporter, which turned him into a monster when he tried to transport himself along with a tiny housefly, continues to pursue his father's experiment, while his own two sons attempt to extricate him, themselves and the family name from further disaster and scandal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ways to provide him with fresh specimens...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight of the Big Heat (1967)
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLady Frankenstein (1971)
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue his experiments.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Night Caller (1965)
The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
The first manned expedition to Mars is invaded by an unknown life form, which stows away on the rescue ship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDie, Monster, Die! (1965)
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisQuatermass 2 (1957)
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIsland of the Fishmen (1979)
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Flesh Eaters (1964)
An alcoholic actress, her personal assistant, and their pilot are downed on a secluded isle by bad weather, where a renegade Nazi scientist is using ocean life to develop a solvent for human flesh. The tiny flesh-eating sea critters that result certainly give our heroes a run for their money - and lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Major Ben McBride organizes a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beast Must Die (1974)
Wealthy big game hunter Tom Newcliffe has tracked and killed practically every type of animal in the world. But one creature still evades him, the biggest game of all - a werewolf.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIncubus (1966)
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMill of the Stone Women (1960)
Hans von Arnam travels to a Flemish village to study a strange carousel located in an old windmill that displays famous murderesses and other notorious women from history. Professor Gregorius Wahl, owner of the windmill, warns Hans to stay away from his mysterious daughter Elfi, in order to keep Hans from discovering the horrible secret shared by the Professor and Elfi's Doctor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWar-Gods of the Deep (1965)
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their kidnapped friend Jill. Held captive in the underwater city by the tyrannical Captain (Vincent Price), and his crew of former smugglers, the three plot to escape...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Island of Terror?
The closest matches to Island of Terror are The Creeping Flesh (1973), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Island of Terror?
People who watched Island of Terror most often go on to The Creeping Flesh (1973), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970).
What is the highest-rated movie like Island of Terror?
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), rated 6.8/10 by 366 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Island of Terror?
Island of the Fishmen (1979) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Island of Terror?
Yes: The Creeping Flesh (1973), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970).
How are movies similar to Island of Terror chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Island of Terror, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.