Movies like Manborg (2011)
The best movies like Manborg (2011) are Hardware (1990), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Turbo Kid (2015). If Manborg 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 Thing (1982)8.1/10 from 8,428 votes
- NewestMurderbot (2023)Released 2023
Hardware (1990)
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
A "metal fetishist", driven mad by the maggots wriggling in the wound he's made to embed metal into his flesh, runs out into the night and is accidentally run down by a Japanese businessman and his girlfriend. The pair dispose of the corpse in hopes of quietly moving on with their lives. However, the businessman soon finds that he is now plagued by a vicious curse that transforms his flesh into iron.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTurbo Kid (2015)
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, an orphaned teen must battle a ruthless warlord to save the girl of his dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHelldriver (2010)
Still reeling from the events of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman, along with a group of allies, makes her way across a dystopian Japan in search of her mother, the Zombie Queen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrom Beyond (1986)
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRakka (2017)
A story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak, harrowing, and unrelenting, the humans must find enough courage to go on fighting.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRe-Animator (1985)
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAlien Resurrection (1997)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Void (2016)
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMeatball Machine (2006)
Capable of making bio-mechanical weapons out of human flesh, alien parasites grotesquely invade the Earth, turning their hosts into maniacal killers who seek and destroy each other to the bloody death! And yes, it s also a human love story, even though the budding romantics are infested with slimy, tumor-like globules.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fly II (1989)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Deadly Spawn (1983)
When a meteorite touches down in the New Jersey woods carrying a monstrous alien slug, it’s up to four teens to stop it before its terrifying brood consumes all life on Earth!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisVideodrome (1983)
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThey Live (1988)
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRejuvenatrix (1988)
A rich actress who has gotten too old for leading roles employs a scientist who is working on a formula for eternal youth. The formula involves withdrawing certain fluids from the human brain. She takes the serum, but its unforeseen side effects turn her into a murderous monster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
The Fly (1986)
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge 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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPhantasm (1979)
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMurderbot (2023)
From legendary director, Jim Wynorski comes his latest feature involving killer robots and damsels in distress. When a sentient female robot goes on a berserk killing spree, a group of young people fight for their lives while the mad scientists who created her try to stop the slaughter!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Chopping Mall (1986)
High-tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices have been recruited as the new mechanical "night watchmen" for the Park Plaza Mall. When a jolting bolt of lightning short-circuits the main computer control, the robots turn into "killbots" on the loose after unsuspecting shoppers!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisScreamers (1995)
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeyond Re-Animator (2003)
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 the arrival of a new prison doctor and the brother of the girl who suffered from West's experiments 13 years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Blob (1988)
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thing (1982)
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHobo with a Shotgun (2011)
A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt cops, abused prostitutes and even a pedophile Santa, the Hobo goes about bringing justice to the city the best way he knows how - with a 20-gauge shotgun. Mayhem ensues when he tries to make things better for the future generation. Street justice will indeed prevail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisRepo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan — and those unable to fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerrorVision (1986)
After Stanley Putterman installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, a strange monster leaps off the screen and needs to feed on humans for survival. The Putterman children Sherman and Suzy—along with Suzy's metalhead boyfriend O.D.—are left to figure out what to do.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisPhantasm: Ravager (2016)
Brothers Mike and Jody join family friend Reggie to battle the Tall Man and his evil minions from another dimension, for the final time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood Machines (2020)
An artificial intelligence escapes her spaceship to turn into a female ghost and challenges two blade runners to a galactic chase.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisZygote (2017)
The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOats Studios: Volume 1 (2021)
A compilation of shorts, diverse experimental content and more weird stuff spread directly from the devious mind of the South African film director Neill Blomkamp. Includes: Rakka, Firebase, Zygote, Kapture-Fluke, Cooking with Bill, Praetoria, God and Gdansk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Manborg?
The closest matches to Manborg are Hardware (1990), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Turbo Kid (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Manborg?
People who watched Manborg most often go on to Hardware (1990), Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Turbo Kid (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like Manborg?
The Thing (1982), rated 8.1/10 by 8,428 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Manborg?
Murderbot (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Manborg?
Yes: Hardware (1990), Turbo Kid (2015) and From Beyond (1986).
How are movies similar to Manborg chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Manborg, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.